Remicade and ravenous hunger??

Just got my first maintenance dose of Remicade last week (it had been going well until about 2 weeks before my recent infusion when I started to backslide, now it’s improving but much more slowly than I’d like; they make shorten my infusion intervals or increase dosage) and I am fricking starving, round the clock.

I noticed this after my second loading dose, and it finally started to subside after my third. I figured it was just me feeling better and getting an appetite back but now I wonder if it’s the Remicade itself ...?

In the pantheon of potential side effects this is not a huge deal. Just curious. Because I’ve always a decent-but-not-excessive appetite, and I’m subject to episodes of hanger on my best days, but I’m like one step from omnivorous zombie at this point.

Yeah I haven’t seen it listed—and I agree re: prednisone, though that typically makes me less hungry, and I’ve been off it for over a month.

I haven’t been feeling so bad lately that my appetite’s been affected, which is why I was questioning feeling-better theory this time around. It’s just so weird and such a marked difference.

It was admittedly much more welcome when I was trying to regain the 20-odd lbs I’d lost but uhh ... now that that’s taken care of ... 😂

It's fun when you're 20-pounds underweight and in remission and hungry, as you can eat anything without worry (have a sinful desert of chocolate cake at a restaurant without guilt while your friends are mouth a gasp). Afterwards, it's hard being at your target weight and eating responsibly, cuz you're so used to not being careful.

Thanks! I still have to go through the obligatory dose reduction, which I am trying to delay as long as possible as I'm afraid of getting sick again.
It is weird to experience being hungry again though. Even on prednisone it wasn't like this.