I understand how having your tooth pulled cause the eating issue.....I was sick the other week & food was making me feel sick for days afterwards & it was impossible to eat & when it becomes impossible to eat....it drive the weight down almost immediately since there isn't much weight there in the first place.....but I was able to get back up to a safe weight after going through the trauma with the home care person when my mother was dying of cancer. That trauma messed up my eating so bad that I was in the medical hospital for almost 2 months with IV nutrition through a central line.

Triggers that cause the not eating are the triggers that restart the anorexia/ED behaviors. Interesting that you say about your tooth causing this.....I have to have ALL my teeth pulled & have more oral surgery & then get dentures. They pull the teeth & there is 4 months of healing before they will do the 2 lower implants & then 4 more months of healing....with only upper dentures. I have a hard enough time eating normally now while I can still eat normal food even though most of my teeth have broken off & chipped away because of bad enamel that didn't form when my teeth were being formed (inherited & medical reasons).

Honestly, I needed to get my weight to this more stable point before going through all of that.....I can almost surely know that the anorexia will rear it's head during that time.....which I have planned for this coming fall.

I can definitely understand how this has effected you. I have a psychologist who isn't an ED psychologist but focuses on DBT along with my DBT group leader & they know what I went through in the past even though that was back in Calif before I left my H (2100 miles away from there now)....but she constantly checks on how I'm doing with my weight especially if she sees that I'm have lost any weight. It's good to be honest because they can help with reminding us of the skills we need to be using to put ourselves really back in control & not allow the ED to be in control (which in reality isn't us)