Medical Complications and Body Functions

Consequences -please Take Heed !

Submitted by Esmerelda on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 18:35

For the last few days I've been eager to get to my lap top to write about this , not because unfortunatly I have a lovely colour filled story to tell but one that I feel needs to be told so that others may not befall the same fate as myself . We are all told in the early stages of recovry how many medical complications can arise from eating distress and this is eating distress in all forms , regardless of your shape/size or behaviours . ED hurts your body and that is FACT .I came to accept this face the hard way in the last week .

Easing digestion

Submitted by georgia on Wed, 11/01/2012 - 12:17

At the moment I'm finding myself in a good place - where I used to be convinced that I had major digestive problems, I am starting to think that there are simple steps which deal with a lot of what bothered me. Here are a few of the things which I think may have helped...

- relaxation: before, during and after eating, be aware of what muscles are tense and actively relax them
- more sleep: just seems to help, maybe my systems work better or maybe I'm more relaxed so less tense?
- months and months of mechanical eating: get my tummy used to it

Sick

Submitted by Caitriona2 on Thu, 15/12/2011 - 03:07

Hello all
I cud really use some advice.

Recovery from Osteoporosis - Would appreciate your advice / experiences

Submitted by Martha on Sat, 15/10/2011 - 22:15

Hi everyone,

So I was wondering if I could get some advise and info on experiences with osteoporosis / osteopenia.

I was diagnosed with osteoporosis in my spine and osteopenia in my hips over two years ago, when I was more or less finishing my recovery. I am now fully free, and have had stable nutrition since the diagnosis.

To monitor or not?

Submitted by georgia on Mon, 19/09/2011 - 08:24

In the past week I have been experiencing a lot of stomache discomfort. Not just intermittently, but constantly.

I had been away and thus on a completely different and far more relaxed schedule. On my return I recognised that it is colder here, I'm back to work and I want and need to revocer, thus from day one settled into the plan laid out for me by my nutritionist, absolutely regimentally.

Irrational thinking patterns

Submitted by georgia on Mon, 18/07/2011 - 14:03

I have suffered accute ED since childhood (now nearly 10 years) and at this stage recognise one of the symptoms which hits when I am at my worst physically - very very irrational thinking.
• obsessing over little things (did I set the alarm, did the freezer door shut fully, is the cooker off, is the back door properly locked...)
• indecisiveness (black socks or white socks...) such that tiny decisions literally take hours and after they are made, I obsess over whether the right decision was made

bones

Submitted by Caitriona on Tue, 31/05/2011 - 11:20

hello my gorgeous icebergians

ok firstly wow wo the regrets post really got me thinking!
so i decided to face the music
i have been recovering since may of last year. i just went full head on for freedom. i had been doing loads of louise haye, secret... really positive stuff for years and then not working so much on the physical ... so i don't know maybe i built up enough self belief to look at the real problem or something switched and i decided hey i am going for the physical. i have regained x kilo since then and have quite a free relationship with food.

'Fattest Teenager' Now Deathly Ill With Anorexia - article

Submitted by marie on Mon, 16/05/2011 - 08:55

Maybe some of you saw this headlines, I just think that there is message for us all. Recovery is not about the size….

Anorexia and Emotional Overeating - two sides of one coin. So many times we did see the of lack of understanding, here another one.
It is very sad, but I would like to remind everyone, that with your recovery you are helping and brining hope.
Every time you read or hear sad news like this - please remind yourself - I want to recover!!!!

'Fattest Teenager' Now Deathly Ill With Anorexia

Blood Sugars

Submitted by Martha on Sun, 19/12/2010 - 11:58

Hi Everyone,

feeling panicked

Submitted by amanda on Fri, 22/10/2010 - 10:06

For the past few weeks Ive had an infection in my foot. I went to the doctor on monday because it still didn't feel right and he sent me for an exray and it showed that I have a fractured foot. And now I feel stressed and panicked. Not necessarily stressed over the fracture but stressed that I have to take 4 weeks off college/school. Im waiting to get an appointment in the fracture clinc to see if I need a cast so I havnt told the principle of my school yet or UCD. But I feel horrible.