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how can you seek help?

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deleted_user
How can you seek help when your docs make you feel like your wasting their time. Yesterday i took my baby to the docs and he told me in one breath that i should have gone sooner and in another breath told me off for taking an emergency appointment. Today I took my older two for a routine appointment and felt like i was wrong because they turned out to be ok, im a worried mother surely i am entitled to have them checked out esp when they have been so poorly.
So how do i go and ask for help when my BMI is practically ok and my weight is borderline, i manage to maintain it well because of my binge purge cycles. Will they think i am wasting their time?? i really wanna get over this but feel i wont win whatever? im getting worse daily should i go whatever or wait til my bmi is low so they believe me. Doctors really suck!!!!
deleted_user
deleted_user
You should go now!! Do not wait until it has gone too far or it is too late. Go and get help now! You are really brave xxx
deleted_user
deleted_user
go sooner rather than later, you'll be okay :)
xxx
deleted_user
deleted_user
We know now that EDs are not just about weight.

Your doctor had no right to chew your ear off for taking your kids in- you're a concerned parents, and frankly it's illness season, so you're right to be worried for them. If you don't feel comfortable with this jerk of a doc, and you feel you can't confide your issues with him, you should get a new GP, stat.

You deserve care, just like your kids do. Because in the long run (or actually, short run too), when you get help, you make a better mom. Better mom = healthier, happier kids.
deleted_user
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Go see a doctor, but if possible a different one than that loser who saw your kids.
I'm glad you're getting help.
EmmaammE
EmmaammE
Change your doctor.
EmmaammE
EmmaammE
Change your doctor.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Go see a different doctor for your kids - preferably one who has kids temselves and knows how worrisome it can be!
To find help for yourself, if you are worried about going to see your Doc, then try calling a national helpine and get refered to a therapist that way.
Good luck sweetie, you deserve to be helped
xx
deleted_user
deleted_user
I feel the exact same way you are feeling (sorry I am responding a little late). It's so hard to ask for help if right now you are borderline on a healthy weight. To me, as an anorexic, one part of my brain is telling me I should be too embarrassed to even think about going to the doctor or my family and asking for help since I'm not dealthy underweight, and the other part of my brain is telling me to do it today. For sure though go to a different doctor, this one sounds like a prick.
deleted_user
deleted_user
no of course you are not wasting anyones time hun,make them listen! they can refer you to a specialist who can really help you xx
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bump
shootingstar
shootingstar
Bump
deleted_user
deleted_user
whats bump?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have been sick with many sypmtoms, not connected with ed, but I am emotional due to my sypmtoms and my self-esteem is really low cuz of it. This has been increasing the past 5 wks. I have been to the docs and er. I was given antibiotics, which I finished and didn't help. When I went back the 3rd time, I was told to "rest & drink lots of fluids!" I am like, duh, I could have told myself that! I finally have an appointment with my OBGYN in week and 1/2. I think she'll be able to help more. I am looking at the diplomas on the wall, when I hear.. you're body is complicated from a doc with an entire wall of diplomas and awards, I am not quite comforted! (sarcasm there!) :)
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