Don - if you are drinking 2 pots of coffee a day you may be abusing your tummy - one time years ago I was having tummy aches just about all the time and I remembered from way back when I was about 16 ( I'm only 81 3/4 now ) my father was having continuous stomach aches and drinking humongous amounts of coffee and the doc said " 2 cups a day " in about 3 days the aches went away . I was drinking about a pot a day so I quit entirely and the belly-aches disappeared in about 2 days. Have had no trouble since just limit myself to 2-3 cups a day and occasionally a couple more on special occasions. Try it and hope that is the problem Bob Anibal P.S. I always love reading your letters Me ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don McKinley" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 1:26 PM Subject: LIST---- ??????--HELP HELP this will bedifferent in the way i start out. being 76 and PD for 31 years you would think i would know the answer. live and learn i guest. i don't know who to ask. as my nero ask me a lot to help short timers it bothers me that i can't always give a good answer. mom and I got friends from teenager and our age. well for my ?. we had some people in with some children so we set out for some MACDONALD'S. i got a a small one and some ice cream. all i could eat was just 1/2 of hamburger. and my ice cream. it was supper time. i had not ate all day. they could not under stand it. I get sick at my belly,and break out in a sweat. nothing taste good. even get bad head ackes. mom says she just getting tird of cooking. as i won't eat. can't. i am not loosing weight nor gaining. drink 2 pots of coffee. i do not feel bad asking the LIST for help but hate to ask DOC. for help. is it all in my mind or what. yesterday i ate 2 big spoons of mac.&cheese piece of pie. today so far nothing. am getting sick just thinking of eating. why is it am i only one ? LIST is for us to tell the truth about even dumb things. i bet lot got dumb ? but afraid to ask. i was and still at times. am so tried and weak any more. we have always been able to work things out but this eating thing down. hope some one can make sense of what i am saying. so give me some help. I.Y.Q. DON AND VIVIAN