Posted by clarinette on January 2, 2005, at 19:04:29
In reply to Re: anorexia and depression - help, posted by antigua on December 30, 2004, at 11:20:11
Bonsoir Antigua,
I think it all started several months ago when I started taking Depamide which gave me the runs more or less every day. Believe me, that's enough to cut your appetite.
But even after changing to Depakine ( no more runs ! ) and taking Lamictal as well, I have very little appetite. Food just doesn't turn me on. When I have to go food shoping it's a nightmare, I don't want to buy anything.
I've seen my GP about this who prescribed me blood tests to rule out hepatitus B and a thyroid probleme. The hepatitus is negative, I'll have to go back to the doc for him to explain the result of the thyroid tests.
I seem to have reached a plateau at around 56kg ( 123 lbs, that's a stagering 18.5 BMI ).
It's not that I deliberately don't want to eat, it p****es me off to see myself in this state. But sometimes I just can't force myself to eat what is on my plate.
I have been through this in the past to some extent, 10kg in 8 weeks once ( 22lbs ). In fact when I moved to France 11 years ago I weighed 74kg ( 162 lbs ) now i'm down to 56kg. Every time I lose weight like this I put on a bit when it's over, but never all of what I've lost. That makes a net loss of 18kg or nearly 40 lbs in 11 years. I wonder where and when it will end ; slowly but surely I feel I'm wasting away. Not so long ago on a French forum I said that anorexia is just a slow suicide, very slow.
So I try to make it up with energising milkshakes and energy bars for sportifs.
The depression is easing a little, but not the anorexia, yet. If anyone has been through this and has got out of it, I'd be interested, and reassured to know.
Bonne nuit,
Clara
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