Sorry bluebicycle confused you with another person on the ED check-in thread with blue in the username.

I do think you should take the medication. If you don't want Protonix, they have other things to try. My gastro-doc wants me on Protonix & it happened when the trauma surgeons operated on me, they consulted one of the top gastro-docs in the Houston area and my surgery was a bit weird because I had a higher muscle to fat ratio, and they had to vary some parts of the operation. He did mention a possibility of going to some other stuff after awhile, but I can't remember if it was prescription or OTC.

Even without an eating disorder, you don't eat, you lose weight, lose muscle, get too underweight, all the same bad effects of anorexia hit your body just the same. Osteopenia (yep, I got that one, after the age of 30, you can't usually reverse it). Infertility for some, hair loss, languno, problems with your heart (which can be permanent), etc.

So you should work your hardest to resolve the problem sooner rather than later.