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Eating Disorder Support / by Ravensfeather222
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 March 25th, 2021
...See more I've suffered with anorexia since I was a pre-teen.most of the time I do good and I am able to not listen to "anorexia Brain" and "logical brain" wins the war.after I had my daughter I dropped a ton of weight with pregnancy and then lost it all while breastfeeding and pumping and then slowly gained it back.Nothing I did would make this weight go away.I wasn't overweight by any means.I'm 5'8" and would fluctuate between 145-148.it was just too much for me.Well my psych increased my adderall and my neuro put me on Qudexy XR and warned me that both have the side effect of decreased appetite.Well it did.The first few days I lost 10 pounds.Now it's been 2 weeks and I'm down to 130.I'm eating between 130-300 calories a day and drinking about half of a coffee and then just water all day.Logically I know I need to stop the medicine and eat but the anorexic part of me is loving it and wants to keep going and lose even more.How do I break the cycle?
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Eating Disorder Support / by Ravensfeather222
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 March 23rd, 2021
...See more I suffered from Anorexia as a pre-teen and teenager.I learned coping skills and mostly do well as an adult.I have only had minor issue with lapses that have been handled by myself within a few days with no issues and I was able to logically talk myself back into normally eating with no problems.I always have what I call "anorexia brain" and I know I always will but I deal with it.Then my neurologist put me on my Qudexy XR to try and help with my chronic migraines and at the same time my psych increased my adderall dosage.Between the two I essentially stopped eating for a week.I lost a 10 pounds in a week.I was in heaven.I stopped the adderall due to being a zombie and it being too strong.I am eating some but the qudexy makes me not want to eat hardly anything.The logical part or my brain is telling me to stop the medication because I do not need to lose the weight and I need to be healthy and all that jazz.But the anorexic part is in heaven and is telling me to keep it going and let's see if I can get to can get to that goal weight I've been wanting for week anyway! I know I'm malnourished and dehydrated because I'm not wanting to drink much either.This medication is tough.I know I need to stop it but I can't convince that part of my brain. This morning I was down 15 pounds in about 2.5 weeks.Which I know is not a healthy about of weight loss.She told me to watch for weight loss and she didn't want to waste away to nothing because I was on the smaller side already(she does not know my history of anorexia).She just said most woman love the side effext of losing weight from it!I don't know how to win this war and normally I always win
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