Hi, i am 13 years old and i have a constant need for crushed ice. I will only chew small pieces of crushed ice or shaved ice not full ice cubes. It is so bad that when im at a friends house and they dont have a ice crushing machine i will crush it myself. I am very healthy and happy. I dont know if its i just like the way it tastes or feels, i have no clue why i do it and if its really that bad for my teeth. Every ounce in a while my teeth will feel sensitive but nothing extreme. Please help me solve this addiction.
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wow! I am soooo glad to hear these stories so now it's making sense to me. I am an ice eater as well. I cannot stop. I eat one cup after another after another. It's like i HAVE to have it. Sonics and Sunoco Gas Station's Ice is the absolute best. I want to stop, but i need help!!! I feel tired , fatigued and light headed alot, plus have veeeeeery bad monthly cramps. Help!
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I love ice and always have since I was a little girl. When I was small I would eat the frost out of our freezer a few times per day. I kept a spoon in there all the time. I was so addicted I even got my little niece to eat it with me later on. Now I found the prefect solution to my ice addiction. I got tired of paying 2.00 to the guy selling ice cones down the road so now I got a snow cone machine. Its small and simple. Its a regal. I just fill it fult of ice and out comes shaved yummy ice. I do it a few times per day. My problem is when its that time of month and I eat my ice and get very very bad cramps but then I just take pamprin lol. My doctor has been telling me for years about this ice addition being connected to aniemic. I suppose to be taking iron suppliments. After reading all these post its time for me to start taking my Black strap molasses ...
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i along with the rest of my ice eating brothers and sisters have a problem with aniemia i love to eat ice and i thought i was the only one my friends though i was weird for scraping the frost out of their freezers and i probably eat around 1000 ice cubes a week thank god i'm not the only one and now that i know where my cravings are from its a relief i tought it was cause i was sexualy frustrated but i get sex a good amount and i was still eating ice constantly i think its awsome and KEEP CRUNCHING AWAY MY ICE EATING ALLUMNI!!! :-D
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Hi, I also love to crunch ice (and carrots for that matter). I love the numbing sensation from the ice. I have read that this can be due to addictions where the body releases a natural high from the numbing sensation. Some people eat tubs of ice cream for the same effect. On reading comments above, I am going to check my iron intake as I do feel very tired so I could possibly be lacking in that area. Just thought I would share my cravings too.
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Look I don't know what all these code at the bottom mean. But I am a soft ice eater. This has been going on only in the past couple of months. My blood work is fine. Something else to wonder about. I am sure it is not life or death. Just another bad habit.
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It's just ICE. Ice is frozen water in case you all forgot. If you think that some magical freeze fairy puts iron in ice then you should try just drinking WATER and BAM the magic begins! It's WATER in a solid form. There's nothin special of fantasmical about it!!!
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i have an ice addiction too! and i have weird long lasting you know whats every month that gets really annoying. i am a tween and eat ice maybe about 3 cups daily. AM I ANEMIC?????!!!
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I too am addicted to ice. I eat it morning , noon and night and don't care what kind it is. I do know I am a anemic and have iron deficiency problems. i was also told to get a hysterectomy but i refused because i have no kids. so i have alot a problems. but i too am a ice head!!!!!!!!! :-P
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Glad to know I'm not alone in this ice munching.
I've been munching on ice since I was about 8 but just on the ice that was left in a glass after I finished a drink.
Then at 27 I became pregnant and was diagnosed to be severely anemic in my 5th month. I had to take a cooler full of ice everywhere I went or I'd pass out. It got better after I delivered for a long while but came back in a year or so.
I've been tested a lot over the past 10 years and the drs. swear I'm not anemic. I am up to eating 10 lb. bags of ice every day. I don't soften it first, I eat it straight out of the freezer. I also had to make sure our new refrigerator had an ice crusher or I wouldn't buy it. I can only go 2-3 hours w/o ice and then I have to get it or I'll get really irritable and start feelign really bad. If I'm working outside or even inside like cleaning, I can't work if I don't have my ice cup. I even have to have this one certain cup...I use others if this one is in the wash but love this one cup...perfect size to hold what I need at one sitting. Often if I'm at home I eat cup right after cup like a chain smoker.
I really am beginning to think this is more of an oral fixation/anxiety reliever than a result of anemia at this point. I notice I eat even more when I'm stressed. My therapist and drs. have no ideas and no one sees this as a problem to my health.
The only problems I've had is I'm wearing down my teeth faster than I should for my age and my core body temp is very low thus I'm cold all the time.
~M
I've been munching on ice since I was about 8 but just on the ice that was left in a glass after I finished a drink.
Then at 27 I became pregnant and was diagnosed to be severely anemic in my 5th month. I had to take a cooler full of ice everywhere I went or I'd pass out. It got better after I delivered for a long while but came back in a year or so.
I've been tested a lot over the past 10 years and the drs. swear I'm not anemic. I am up to eating 10 lb. bags of ice every day. I don't soften it first, I eat it straight out of the freezer. I also had to make sure our new refrigerator had an ice crusher or I wouldn't buy it. I can only go 2-3 hours w/o ice and then I have to get it or I'll get really irritable and start feelign really bad. If I'm working outside or even inside like cleaning, I can't work if I don't have my ice cup. I even have to have this one certain cup...I use others if this one is in the wash but love this one cup...perfect size to hold what I need at one sitting. Often if I'm at home I eat cup right after cup like a chain smoker.
I really am beginning to think this is more of an oral fixation/anxiety reliever than a result of anemia at this point. I notice I eat even more when I'm stressed. My therapist and drs. have no ideas and no one sees this as a problem to my health.
The only problems I've had is I'm wearing down my teeth faster than I should for my age and my core body temp is very low thus I'm cold all the time.
~M
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I had always thought eating ice was just something to do when you finish your drink....
As far as the whole "clear" versus "frosty" ice thing goes, the only difference between the two is that "clear ice" is made with a machine that makes the ice in a vacuum and takes away all the impurities from the water when it freezes. "Frosty" ice with the white in the middle is simply water made into ice by leaving in in a cold environment in the open air, thus leaving in all of the minerals from wherever the water came from (tap, well, refrigerator ice maker). I'm pretty sure that's all scientifically true, I learned most of it in chemistry...
No idea that people liked ice because of iron deficiency or anything, interesting.
As far as the whole "clear" versus "frosty" ice thing goes, the only difference between the two is that "clear ice" is made with a machine that makes the ice in a vacuum and takes away all the impurities from the water when it freezes. "Frosty" ice with the white in the middle is simply water made into ice by leaving in in a cold environment in the open air, thus leaving in all of the minerals from wherever the water came from (tap, well, refrigerator ice maker). I'm pretty sure that's all scientifically true, I learned most of it in chemistry...
No idea that people liked ice because of iron deficiency or anything, interesting.
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I am very, very addicted to ice to the point where if I dont eat it I find myself chewing my tongue. I take a cup everywhere I go. The longer the journey the bigger the cup and it cant be any ice it has to be the frosty ice. At work i take a ziplock bag from home full of ice and it lasts me all day. I have been eatin gice since I can remember and I am 35 years old. When I was little I would scrape the ice from the freezer at home with a spoon. The older I got the more I ate. Now there is no turning back for me. I get very depressed when I have no ice. It really alms my nerves like a Xanac.
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oh my gosh!!!!i can't believe i have a ice family! i eat like five to six 320z.cups of ice a day! my family call me a crack head,because i'm so addicted :-) but i don't care i'm 32 yrs. old and i've been eating eat since i was about 12yrs. i have a ice maker and i put it in a blender with water,the water makes it slushy like, i don't drink soda,juice,nothin but ice and water if the water has ice in it! i'm so glad i'm not alone!!!! :-D
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I have been an ice-a-holic for the past few years (I am 46). It is such a relief to know I am not the only "ice lady" around. I can empathize with so many of the things said here -- having the preference for the soft ice, for example. I don't keep ice at my house anymore. I used to buy bags and crush it in the sno-cone maker -- thankfully I somehow got out of that habit. These days my habit is limited to fast food drive-thrus and restaurant dining (although since we eat out all the time, this is not as infrequent as it sounds). I even rate the local restaurants as to which ones have the good ice. I have not tried Sonic, but based on the number of people who have posted here about it, I foresee a trip to Sonic this week. :-) My hubby and I are regulars at a local breakfast restaurant -- they know my preference so well that the ice is on the table when I sit down and they offer me a cup to go when I leave. I wonder what they say behind my back when I leave! LOL
I've read many of the posts here and one in particular caught my interest. The poster said she loves the smell of dirt. Well, I love the smell of rubber tires. I even go so far as to take a detour down the tire aisle or bicycle aisle depending on the store. I love it! I would wear it as a cologne if it were bottled! LOL. Could the ice-crunching and dirt/rubber sniffing have something in common? Does anyone else here love the smell of dirt or rubber or anything like that?
I've read many of the posts here and one in particular caught my interest. The poster said she loves the smell of dirt. Well, I love the smell of rubber tires. I even go so far as to take a detour down the tire aisle or bicycle aisle depending on the store. I love it! I would wear it as a cologne if it were bottled! LOL. Could the ice-crunching and dirt/rubber sniffing have something in common? Does anyone else here love the smell of dirt or rubber or anything like that?
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I love ice!!! I can't stop even if it means my teeth will ache for about 30 minutes afterwards. I still crunch away. I've been crunching on the good stuff for about 10 years now. I do get depressed if I'm out somewhere and can't find any. I go to the mall just to visit a cookie shop that has the most beautiful crushed ice. It beats Sonic and hospital ice. I work at a hopital and get a cup in the morning, at lunch, and before I leave. Then, at home it's more ice. I used to go through bags of Sonic ice like crazy, but my teeth won't allow me. I even get depressed if it's not the soft frothy ice. I know all the stores with the best ice. I do try to limit the cup size because of my tooth pain. Does anyone know a way I can enjoy ice and lessen the tooth pain? I know the best thing would be to stop, but I can't. My mouth starts watering. Pickle with ice is awesome!! Well, I'd just thought I'd share my love and pain for ice. Keep on CHOMPIN!!!!!! Oh, someone told me there is ammonia in ice? Is that true? Can it be harmful? ;-)
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