Eating Disorder

[Tomoko]

How many SS have an eating disorder or chronic illness? I was anorexic for a long time as a teen and a 20 y/o. After that I could never eat normally again as it caused me to develop chronic gastritis. Before I was anorexic I was an obese binge eater. Now I am bullimic because sometimes the pain I get just from eating a snack like toast is so extremely sharp in my stomach from the gastritis that it carries into my back and I force myself to puke to get the food out of my body and feel "normal" again.

 

[sillysweary]

I have had a lifetime of anorexia. Sometimes I'm heavy enough to not be deemed ill but the fear around food and the rituals around eating remain. It sucks. Any time I get over anxious I'll purge my food. My teeth are wrecked as a result. It's been this way for over 30 years now and I don't see a way forward without it.

 

[Tomoko]

I have had a lifetime of anorexia. Sometimes I'm heavy enough to not be deemed ill but the fear around food and the rituals around eating remain. It sucks. Any time I get over anxious I'll purge my food. My teeth are wrecked as a result. It's been this way for over 30 years now and I don't see a way forward without it.

My teeth are absolutely trashed as well. :(

 

[stygal]

I've "only" been hardcore anorexic for 5 years or so (lost/gained approximately 30% of my normal body weight during that time) but during this time I lost 80% of my hair (still have much finer hair), my gums are not what they used to be, my bones are brittle, I have much less muscle mass than I had as a teenager, I lost my period for 8 years and it only came back a year or so and I'm probably (hopefully) infertile, I have acne/weird skin patches and lose skin.

The brain fog/binging is thankfully mostly gone but I'm still nowhere near normal when it comes to food aka I feel much better whenever I don't eat :/ - so it's probably chronic.

 

[Life_and_Death]

i do. im not sure about giving it a name, i can go several days without eating, then ill binge, hate myself for it and do it all over again. i havent eaten right really since i was 11, thank you mom . now everyones always bothering me to eat, "omg shuuut uuup" lol.

im sorry your ED caused problems past the typical (physical problems)

 

[Makko]

Not sure if this counts as an eating disorder but when I'm in a derealization episode I don't feel hunger or thirst. So I can suddenly find myself waking up on the floor, having fainted after not eating or drinking anything for days.

 

[Green Destiny]

Maybe this isn't an eating disorder per se, but I was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer about 4 years ago. And as a result of my stomach ulcer eating food has become borderline impossible. I get very sick from eating pretty much any food and will throw up while it feels like I'm going to suffocate with burning pain in my esophagus. I feel so hungry all the time because I don't eat much now, it's very difficult to live with every day.

 

[narval]

I believe i've compulsive overeating disorder. I've gained around 20kg in 2020 due this. Now i'm trying to stop, but still loosing various kg in a week and then gaining them in 2 days. Also i've my teeth in bad situation. I was adicted to Coca cola. Drinking 3/4 liters in a day for years.

 

[stygal]

I believe i've compulsive overeating disorder. I've gained around 20kg in 2020 due this. Now i'm trying to stop, but still loosing various kg in a week and then gaining them in 2 days. Also i've my teeth in bad situation. I was adicted to Coca cola. Drinking 3/4 liters in a day for years.

I also was addicted to Diet Coke for about 6 years and to energy drinks on/off for about 1-2 years - really takes a toll on your teeth and definitely left me in a nervous/utterly exhausted state with all the coffein pumped into my body day-in-day-out.
Im also known to be able to rapidly gain/lose weight - hate it and feel for you :(

 

[Squiddy]

I'm slowly starting to go down the path unfortunately. It started last November when my gastro doctor gave me a folder about obesity and I told myself I would lose weight so I lost a few pounds healthily, but then I became discouraged at the pace of the loss so I started restricting my calories, weighing myself multiple times a day and even cried when it was Thanksgiving because I knew I was going to eat a lot.

Eventually the problems sorta went away for quite a few months with occasional guilt feelings and I was plateauing for months, but over a month ago, I decided to start losing the rest of this weight and things got a little worse. I was restricting calories and throwing up multiple times a day (still am, but am trying to find other ways to cope). The only negative consequences I've experienced so far is my throat hurting and my period being gone, but I'm hoping I can get this under control soon

 

[TriggerHappy]

My eating needs work :: I live on coffee :: I remember in rehab meeting the first guy that had drug / food / hairpicking issues and then identified with the eating thing.In those days boys never got eating disorders (yeah right)
I like to starve myself then 'control' what I eat. I eat well when I'm training, I train obsessively.
If I didn't train / do sport I'd be overweight. And use more.
In the city I was vegan for years & years, here on farm its tricky veganism would mean perpetual exhaustion.
As a result I'm nauseous a lot.
But I also don't give it a name, it lurks beneath....

 

[Kattt]

I spent half my life with a bliking tube up my nose
I chucked out my scales,all the mirrors and cut the labels from my clothes
But I really don't think anyone recovers completely

 

[TriggerHappy]

I've been obsessively on the scales and drinking coffee, eating green beans and popcorn so I can fight in the right weight division and break a heteroscum homophobe's fucking face.
See, mom :: I do have goals, dreams, and ambition.

 

[lotus11]

I have had a severe eating disorder in various different forms for over 10 years, has ruined my body and my life. People are on the whole unsympathetic towards it.

 

[Kattt]

I have a fight coing up too. So damned unfit. But I have looked at the kettlebells

 

[Mentalmick]

I have a fight coing up too. So damned unfit. But I have looked at the kettlebells

Boxing? MMA? Or Are you just going to give someone a pasting.

 

[xLosthopex]

Yeah I've had anorexia for 10 years, as well as ocd, bpd, depression, autism. I consider my anorexia a chronic illness and it's also caused many physical illnesses in me for example osteoporosis, hypokalemia, heart problems, gastroparesis etc etc