Anorexia in hospitalized patients

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Hello:) I am 17 years old and was diagnosed as anorexic 18 months ago and started recieving treatment. I have been in a nasty cycle of restrictive and purging behaviour since I was around 13, but in the past two years I have been primarily restricting, resulting in my weight dropping significantly. It has taken over my life...a bittersweet existance where I now hate the eating disorder, yet cannot live without it. My friends do not know the severity of my condition as I am embarrassed.

OK i know i need some help. i am 13 and i have already tried all of the fast ways to lose weight. i didnt eat. i threw up what i ate. i am now takeing laxitives. i read this sight and thats really bad. I let myself eat some stuff though. But when i do i feel gultiy. i am kind of screwed up in the head though. I mean i have low self esteam and **** like that. and i hate to talk to people because last time i got down to 98 pounds and i am 5"9 i got put in the hospital.

I have slowly figured out that my daughter has been battling anorexia for about 6 years (she is currently 23). I have been solid in this realization for about 4 years. I now realize that depression and anxiety have played a significant role in her illness. She saw one therapist for 2 years, another for this last year, but has now gone away to school and is seeing no one.

Does anyone know of any connection between anorexia, the pituitary gland and levels of ACTH or cortisol?

and had a problem with eating at dinner because of anxiety at the age of 12 so i started very young i almost died of it at 14 was put inpatient at Rush' hospital in chicago. get her into a clinic ASAP or she can die from this. i got bulimia after wards for 5-6yrs and now at 19 was near death from laxative abuse and eating less and a stripper as well. i have had it rough and now i am 22yrs old and i think of Food all day long and how much i am eating etc and when im eating.

OH I REMEMBER NOW - MY SHRINK (Who works in drug and alcohol recovery hospital (from my addiciton years ago to Pain Meds) knows a LOT about HCV because most in the hospital ward do have it - he told me that if I lost TOO much weight there were antidepressant drugs that would EASILY cause me to gain back weight. Perhaps THAT is worth checking in to! It's true I remember that some ADs DO cause TREMENDOUS weight gain!

My fourteen year old has been in treatment since the age of 12 for her anorexia. She has been hospitalized twice, the last time this past summer for about a month and a half. She does okay for a little while but seems to always return to highly restrictive behaviors. We have done family therapy, continue with intensive individual therapy, weekly nutritionist visits, medical doctor visits regularly, and tons of prayer.

I will reply more to you another time because I am still in the hospital and getting worse. I am going to have an NJ tube placed tomorrow so I hope that all goes well. Hope you are feeling okay.

Can someone's metabolism recover after it has been slowed down? 3. Do anorexia patients ever recover? 4. How do they recover from anorexia? 5. What are some of the medical treatments implemented on an anorexic patient? 6. How often do you deal with anorexic patients? 7. What is it like dealing with an anorexic patient? 8. Are there any trends in anorectics? Is there a specific "type" of person that anorexia affects (i.e. young girls who feel pressure to be thin). 9.

Hey all, I know I reply to a lot of the questions on here as the RN, but today I need to be the patient and really need support. To start, on Monday I lost my best friend. I had to put my 6 month old kitten to sleep as she had a rare parasite that suddenly began to show symptoms. It's tough as she is to one who kept me company through all the pain and hard times since I got my first place and have been out on my one. So I'm full of emotions right now.

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The patient has no previous history of suicides. 10. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital. 11. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days. 12. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch. 13. Between you and me, we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant. 14. Since she can't get pregnant with her husband, I thought you might like to work her up. 15. She is numb from her toes down.

Hello Doctor, My fiance(male- age 30) is recently diagnosed with fungal meningitis(FM) and AIDS. His CD4 count is only 31. He was hospitalized for 12 days and discharged 2 days ago. His WBC count is very low (somewhere around 1.4 if I am not wrong). His cryptococcus antigen titers were 1:175. There are no brain lesions have been found. He is finishing his 2 weeks medication course tomorrow (IV Amphotericin B + Flucytosin) and will be on prophylaxis of Fluconazole for few weeks.

Seems like you have some clarity. You know you have anorexia, and can see that your weight is quite low but you nonetheless like it. If you're scared, then it's time to take action. Start by looking into state/local programs for health care for the unemployed. Hospitals are required to see all patients regardless of ability to pay, and many clinics and private practices will work with you on payment, often using a sliding scale based on your income. Explore, ask, and see what's available.

I recently went off the risperadol that the pshchiatrist was giving me for the anxiety/panic symptoms caused by my thyroid. He said he has had a lot of success with his thyroid patients that it helped them and it did help me. I got rapidly feeling much better. I had been on it about 7 months and was started to have spacyness and extreme tiredness and he said how about going off of the med. I ofcourse said yes and was very happy.

I am 23 years old and have delt with anorexia for 8 years now, having been hospitalized in the past and in and out of out-patient programs. I lately have been experiencing a small relapse and have been experiencing bleeding in between periods. I dont' know if this is due to my lack of nutrition. My periods are typically light and last 3-5 days. The doctors believe that it is my birth control which is keeping me from losing my period all together.

10-The patient has left white blood cells at another hospital. 11-Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the last three days. 12= The patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch. 13- She is numb from her toes down. !4- While in ER, she was examined, X-rated and sent home. !5- The skin was moist and dry. 16- Occasional ,constant infrequent headaches. 17- Patient was alert and unresponsive.

Without going into all the details, she presented all the signs of anorexia and still does. She's been in and out of the hospital many times and near death. She and her family continue to tell everyone that it's LD. But from the research I've done online it doesn't seem that this amount of weight loss is normal. She's lost maybe around 80-90 pounds and is so frail and weak that she is bedridden most of the day.

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I am waiting to get back into the eating disorder program at the hospital here in Winnipeg. I have been a patient off and on for over 20 years. I go through phases. I have just gone back to the old binge eater outta control not wanna leave my house and shut everyone out phase. Its unbareable. I know I have to go back to counselling and she will also put me on meds again. I find here in Winnipeg they dont seem to know what meds work best for this and are a bit outta date on new treatments.

[2] Physicians should also keep in mind not to deprive patients of regular meals and should organize examinations and procedures in a way that will not keep their patients starving for long. These patients are quite often hospitalized and this risk is real. In ESLD, the liver has lost some of its capacity to synthesize and metabolize protein, glycogen and very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL).

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I've gained 4 pounds in the past month as I'm currently recovering from anorexia. However, I'm worried that I won't be able to stop gaining weight once I reach my goal weight of 130. I'm only eating about 1600-1800 calories a day and it's making me gain really fast. I took blood tests and my metabolism and hormone levels are normal. I'm just really scared that the weight gain will never stabilize.

I was diagnosed with tachycardia last year, whilst undergoing treatment for anorexia. For a few months I was on a beta-blocker which was great, whilst waiting to see a Cardiologist. My doctor referred me for a Holter Monitor - which turned up no results. So she took me off the beta blocker and I cancelled my appointment. Recently, my Dad was diagnosed with high blood pressure and was given a bp monitor. When I used it [as you do..

My years of anorexia caused the digestive problems from what I can determine, although the way I feel lately is enough to make me never eat again! (I'm barely able to eat anything now anyway). my doctor said slow motility is quite common in people with ED's. I don't think I've ever had a gastric emptying scan per se.

I can understand ALT being elevated in the chronic conditions that are usually presented, but I'm not sure that I agree ALT would ALWAYS be elevated in every patient, or in every early stage disease patient. 3. In states where patients can not order blood tests, what is one to do if they suspect an illness such as Sjogrens or autoimmune hepatitis, but can not find a physician to order the tests? I am unemployed with no insurance, and can not go from doctor to doctor. 4.

I have had stomache problems for 8 years and i keep getting sicker I have a constant nausea and additional cramping I have had a GI doctor who can't figure out what is wrong im loosing hope am I krazy I keep going to the ER with pain and nausea and a few times I had a UTI which was the cause of the nausea other times i had the flu but they have put my on so much medicine( aciphex, nexium, belladonna alkaloids, phenergan, etc) and now the Doctors are saying that it is self induced i know its real

Thousands of virtual support groups have sprung up for those suffering from particular illnesses. Whether formatted as chat rooms, as newsgroups, or in other ways, they offer patients and families the chance to share their hopes, fears, and knowledge with others experiencing life as they are. These online groups can counter isolation and serve as bastions of understanding, deep concern, and even affection.

Within 4 days, she made a credible suicide threat and shortly after that I got her to go to a local hospital for an evaluation. She was admitted to a locked psych unit were the initial diagnosis was Bipolar I, manic. She was taken off of Adderol and Zoloft and put on Abilify(daily) and Seroquel(as needed). She balked, made another suicide threat, then had an ingestion that resulted in a trip to the hospital and another admission to a psych unit.

If, after a complete evaluation (including an ERCP with sphincterotomy), a patient continues to have debilitating, intermittent RUQ pain, and no diagnosis is found, the procedure of choice after a normal exploratory laparotomy is a transduodenal sphincteroplasty.

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