illnesses and eating disorders
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illnesses and eating disorders
| Mon, 07-05-2004 - 1:28pm |
Hi everyone! I'm new here. Although I am at a healthy weight (5'5", 116), I've had issues with food for a very long time. My mother's best friend was a major influence in my life and she is anorexic. I'm 24 now. When I was living alone I would eat about 1000 calories a day and exercise over an hour. I had been doing better since I moved home, but I am having health problems right now. They aren't sure exactly what is wrong with me yet, it is either congenital adrenal hyperplasia or cushings disease. Both of those will cause me to gain weight, which I'm afraid of. In fact that is what I'm most afraid of. Not the surgery. Which I think is kind of mixed up. But also both of those involve having too many male hormones. I KNOW I'm all girl, but having one of those is making me feel SO bad about myself. So unfeminine. And lately it has been causing me to restrict what I eat more and exercise more.
Has anyone gone through an illness and responded with an eating disorder?
Thanks for any advice!
Has anyone gone through an illness and responded with an eating disorder?
Thanks for any advice!

Hi,
I am glad you found us and shared your issues. It sounds like you have a lot going on right now. I have not dealt with the health issues you are describing, but I have definitely have my share of health problems in the last 2 years. Some of them caused me to gain weight and it was hard, but I also learned to appreciate my body more and now I don't get upset as easily if I do gain a little, or eat more than I had intended, etc. In the long run, I believe it helped me with my eating disorder issues, but I also went to counselign and I am still seeing a therapist every other week.
Can you get some emotional support while you are working on the physical side of things? Are you in therapy right now? It would probably be really helpful as you are going through this difficult time.
Love & hugs, Kristina
The opinions I have expressed here are from my own experience and are not intended as medical advice or to take the place of your own physician's advice.
Love & hugs, Kristina