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Originally Posted by toomanycats
Hi... I've never posted on this board before, but I need somewhere to talk about this stuff... so... here I am.
I've been diagnosed a few times with ED-NOS... but my primary issues are restriction and purging ED behaviors of multiple kinds (I used to have binging problems many years ago too, though.)
I've just started working with a dietician for the first time (she specializes in EDs), and I've been in therapy for forever it seems (ok, like 4 years) but am only just starting to really acknowledge that my "food stuff" has a name.
Anyways, I'm mostly just saying hi. So...hi!
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Welcome! I have been dealing with an eating disorder since the late 1990s. First, anorexia, then ED-NOS, then back to anorexia when the DSM-V came out with new guidelines for EDs diagnosis. I have a lot of purging behavior too, mainly through excessive exercise. In college, though, I used laxatives and sometimes threw up (but I wasn't very good at making myself throw up, fortunately).
I hope the dietician helps. I worked with a wonderful group of dieticians when I was in graduate school. They had all recovered from EDs and worked on a sliding scale, which was great because I didn't have insurance. It was like having therapy and nutrition counseling in one.
I was doing OK but recently had to have emergency surgery on a perforated ulcer (not caused by the ED, caused by a bacterial infection & use of NSAIDs). The hospital treatment caused a big weight loss, I was on that course for 6 days (you can look it up) then afterwards didn't have a lot of appetite. I had been normal weight before and exercising normal amounts and then seeing the scale going down at all the followup appointments, brought out the old ED thinking.
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