I don't know Inky if your GP is the same as mine, but he only takes care of me if I am actually anemic & going through the malnutrition.....he doesn't want to know about anything else. My GP had me hospitalized for about 2 months last year when he had me on a PICC line & then on the central line after that got infected. After he got me stable.....he wanted me to get the care I needed to stop from needing his medical care. My weight still wasn't safe at the time & that was when both my pdoc & GP wanted me in an ED treatment center for medical & psyhological treatment. The only problem was that they didn't listen to what was causing my problem & the stress I was going through & the trauma I had gone through that wasn't being treated. From there, they tried to get me to find a PTSD treatment center where I could get both medical & psychological help. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any place that was willing to even help me......so I just stayed at home & didn't deal with much of anything for months....& the low weight continued but I never had the anemia or malnutrition again after that point. Passing out during the heat took me to the ER & they kept me overnight for observation several times, but none of my blood tests showed up anything wrong enough to need the care of my GP. My pdoc & psychologist continually keep track of my weight (just by asking me about it). I am now at my lowest safe weight (haven't gone under that for a few months). I know however that I do have some weight issues. I know that with using the narcotics I am on for my migraines cause constipation & I can honestly say that I use strong OTC meds to take care of that several times a week(which also causes 2+ pounds of weight loss at a time). The only problem I find with that is that it also seems to dehydrate me too, but try not to drink too much either so I don't gain weight that way either. The one thing that I know for myself is that when I was 11 pounds underweight, I looked like a skeleton & I looked horrible without my cloths on.....so it's not exactly a body image problem.....just don't want to get heavy like my family either...so I know that there is a problem there too. The only problem with my pdoc & psychologist is that there are other problems that take presidence over my desire to stay thin also.

I guess what I am saying is that your GP's job is to treat you if your ED takes you to anemia & malnutrition & to monitor that you aren't getting to that point......but if your weight is still over your minimum low level, there is nothing your GP will do about the ED.....that thinking is what your pdoc & psychologist need to work with your on.

Obviously, I don't know if your GP is similar to mine but he doesn't want to be the Dr that is continually putting me back into the hospital for a central line treatment everytime he turns around. I did have a GP that did that the first time I had very low body weight but that time, I was over 20 pounds underweight & continually had me hospitalized at least once a month with a central line & the TPN. That continued for almost 1 year.

Hope you can get the help you need, but your GP may also feel that he isn't the one that needs to be the one to work with you unless you actually end up physically ill.

Debbie