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Old Oct 26, 2015, 08:19 AM
BlueGreenTabbyCat BlueGreenTabbyCat is offline
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Originally Posted by eskielover View Post
That's awesome that they found a med that affects b/p for you.

I found that my reaction to prozac was the one that stopped my appetite & that was the start of my first experience with serious anorexia. It was a serious trigger
Know where your coming from! I have AN and BN and whilst my diagnosis with AN stands, it's something which I manage and am OK with and I try to keep my weight within a health-ish range and eat enough to do that. The thoughts and feelings wont go away, I just manage them.

However, with no appetite- when I eat and I don't feel hungry, it really throws me! Yesterday I just felt I'd had enough and it resulted in an episode of bulimia. Why? Because I was so fed up with feeling full and I just wanted to feel empty.

I worry that the feeling of having eaten when I am far from hungry is wrong and worry about weight gain....it feels like I'm not getting anything from the Prozac. I had thought the lack of appetite would be the only plus point- I struggle when my appetite feels too much and it can push me into a bulimic episode because my body is saying "don't eat" but my brain is telling me I should eat something by now.

I get that it would be easy enough to follow the feeling, not eat, drop some weight, but I'm trying to keep myself safe. I don't want a full relapse of anorexia- it's something I work carefully to manage. It wont ever go away because I lean on it too often but I don't want to end up back in a hospital bed because of it. However, I really really do not want to put on any more weight and my body sending out strong feelings to not eat? I just feel so confused!

I'm hoping I manage to get a better grip on this because right now I feel really messed up with this pill!