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What Can Cause Sunken Eyes In A Person With Fast Metabolism?

my eye seems to have sunken into my socket, giving me a skeletal look. I have a very fast matabalism and eat a lot about 3500 calories a day on average. Yet i still never gain weight. my question is why has my eye sunkin in so much like my eyelid is actually folded when my eyes are opened normal
Thu, 13 Feb 2014
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1. weight loss despite adequate intake of food points to some hormonal cause of the pathology mainly over active thyroid [hyperthyroidism], or type 1 diabetes mellitus, get these tests done for further line of management or investigations.
[other notable causes of weight loss are malabsorption, malnutrition, cirrhosis of liver, addison's disease, motor neuron disease, pulmonary tuberculosis]

PS. Since hypermetabolism itself is a symptom and not an independent disease, thus treatment first and foremost requires attention to the underlying disease. Usually once the underlying cause is treated, the symptoms will subside.
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What Can Cause Sunken Eyes In A Person With Fast Metabolism?

** 1. weight loss despite adequate intake of food points to some hormonal cause of the pathology mainly over active thyroid [hyperthyroidism], or type 1 diabetes mellitus, get these tests done for further line of management or investigations. [other notable causes of weight loss are malabsorption, malnutrition, cirrhosis of liver, addison s disease, motor neuron disease, pulmonary tuberculosis] PS. Since hypermetabolism itself is a symptom and not an independent disease, thus treatment first and foremost requires attention to the underlying disease. Usually once the underlying cause is treated, the symptoms will subside.