Oh, boydisappearing, I'm sorry you are having this complication of your anorexia. It is not a "fault", just the domino effect. I had a major infection and the antibiotics needed wrecked parts of my immune system so now I have adult-onset asthma (don't really have allergies or asthma "attacks", I just need my inhaler usually every 4-6 hours, more often at night). My grandmother had COPD from smoking so her lungs obviously weren't the greatest so I probably inherited those.

My husband is currently dealing with cancer, he has a condition for which his father was operated on (which probably gave him the cancer) and his mother died of cancer so he got a little bit of genetic hot spots from both people. I am a genealogist and have looked at my ancestors back in all directions for 200+ years and don't have any cancer anywhere so I have turned off thinking about it and worrying I might get it, etc., it's very probably not in my cards.

With this current thing with my husband's cancer, I no longer believe Googling is terribly useful other than to find out base medical stuff; it has nothing to do with what will happen to us as individuals? The reality of how an illness will play out still has to do with our own individual genes, habits, experiences/lives. I'm so glad you are waiting until your doctor talks to you (I did not do that with my husband's illness :-) and taking clues from what he has to say and explain about how it affects you. I decided since my husband's doctors were positive and not panicking that I would not either :-) It is so much more comfortable and easier to pay attention to what is happening now and problems I have now and how to solve them instead of trying to worry about and solve problems I might never have six months from now, etc.