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calleyw

Morning my Lovelies,

Just got up. Not sure if the bad sleep is my meds or because I had a snooze last evening.

I am not in the mood to do anything today. Nothing new there then.

For some unknown reason just feel like I want to cry.

Anyway the sun is shining.

Yours

Calley

Gingernutty

Hi guys!

Well I've been to the doctor.

The skinny woman told me that binge eating isn't a disorder so she can't refer me to the Eating Disorders Unit.

What she can do is prescribe the same ineffectual lofepramine I stopped taking last year (because it wasn't doing any good) and, after 6 weeks, refer me to psychiatric services who did a bang up job a couple of years ago.

They prescribed another tablet which, after only taking two, put me in hospital with cardiac symptoms and they did nothing else to help. After sending me away with a new 'safer' prescription, they told me I needed to be re-referred.

So yeah, two tablets two times a day and only 4 weeks worth as it's so dangerous.

And it's so rarely prescribed now that the pharmacy doesn't have enough in stock and I'll have to go back again later. After 4pm.

heartbreak_star

Gingernutty wrote: »

Hi guys!

Well I've been to the doctor.

The skinny woman told me that binge eating isn't a disorder so she can't refer me to the Eating Disorders Unit.

What she can do is prescribe the same ineffectual lofepramine I stopped taking last year (because it wasn't doing any good) and, after 6 weeks, refer me to psychiatric services who did a bang up job a couple of years ago.

They prescribed another tablet which, after only taking two, put me in hospital with cardiac symptoms and they did nothing else to help. After sending me away with a new 'safer' prescription, they told me I needed to be re-referred.

So yeah, two tablets two times a day and only 4 weeks worth as it's so dangerous.

And it's so rarely prescribed now that the pharmacy doesn't have enough in stock and I'll have to go back again later. After 4pm.

http://www.b-eat.co.uk/about-eating-disorders/types-of-eating-disorder/binge-eating-disorder?gclid=CKmU_IHWqsYCFSrpwgodCSgAnA

Raging on your behalf.

HBS x

Gingernutty

heartbreak_star wrote: »

http://www.b-eat.co.uk/about-eating-disorders/types-of-eating-disorder/binge-eating-disorder?gclid=CKmU_IHWqsYCFSrpwgodCSgAnA

Raging on your behalf.

HBS x

Yup. :mad:

She wasn't even sure if they took referrals for people above 25 years.

Maybe, just maybe I might be able to be referred from the psychiatrist.

After finding out my allergy to SSRIs and adverse reactions to a lot of other drugs, they didn't know what else to do with me.

I'm intelligent, I can function at a higher level than a lot of their other patients, I can hold down a responsible and detailed job, I'm not particularly anxious, not so phobic that it impacts every day living, I'm not hearing voices, I'm not psychotic, not tic-ing, not requiring speech therapy and so on and so forth.

I've done the six sessions of CBT a number of times now and I suspect I need a level of help that might require going private.

calleyw

heartbreak_star wrote: »

http://www.b-eat.co.uk/about-eating-disorders/types-of-eating-disorder/binge-eating-disorder?gclid=CKmU_IHWqsYCFSrpwgodCSgAnA

HBS x

Thanks for that. Read and yep I would say thats me.

I have given all my money and cards to my husband to look after so I can't buy anything to binge on.

As I just buy crap to eat. I am MSE about it and buy what ever is on offer LOL!!! Like this week big bags of M & M's are a £1 and Large bags of Doritos are also a £1.

When I binge I have to have something chocolate, crispy and biscuits.

I am sure I have mentioned before I can eat for england and it's not funny. I can easily eat a bought sandwich, packet of crisps then eat a big bag of M & Ms and then packet of biscuits at the moment chocolate fingers as they are cheaper and are both biscuit and chocolate. And some times I buy ice creams as well. As 4 cones are normally a £1.

I have plenty of food in the house such as chicken/salmon, salad and frozen veg so I can cook and eat something. But its not what I would binge on.

I know my is emotional triggers normally when I am unhappy or angry or hacked off.

Yours

Calley

heartbreak_star

Same here, calley - I need crunch then sweet.

Penguin:

I ate a whole pack of Jaffa Cakes yesterday and just cried and cried.

HBS x

calleyw

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Same here, calley - I need crunch then sweet.

HBS x

I am so embarrassed by it. its gotten worst over the last 3 years or so.

Penguin

I have lost weight in this time. Gone from 15st 7lbs down to 12st 7lbs then back up to 15st. And now I am back down to 13st 5lbs!!!

I can go some weeks and be really good then I fall off the wagon big time. I can't afford to do this in money terms or my health.

Yours

Calley

Georgiegirl256

Pyxis wrote: »

I still don't know if it's coincidence or placebo, but the Sleepy Cow pillow spray I've been using appears to be giving me a better quality of sleep than I had before.

I find the same with my Neom spray! Not sure if it actually works or I just think it does!

Talking of sleep, my new pillows have come! :j Can't remember who it was (sorry ) who recommended I check the hotel ones under the pillow case, but thank you, and I just hope that they are as good as I remember them!

My Aunty sent me a Debenhams gift voucher for my birthday, usually just gets me something at Christmas, so that was really sweet of her, and I'm currently deciding what to treat myself to.

Gingernutty

What I'm finding really upsetting is that I was doing so well.

PENGUIN

I was going to the gym at least once a day, doing at least a half an hour's exercise, I went to fat camp, lost half a stone in a week, came home carried on for about a week, caught virus after virus which left me with labyrinthitis and, even though I'm fine now, haven't gone back.

Last November, I was 12 stone 5 pounds and I'm 13 stone 8 pounds now.

All the hard work and expense is wasted.

I'm gutted and upset.

To be told that it isn't an eating disorder, is just dispiriting when I know it's wrong.

END PENGUIN

calleyw

I also tend to binge when I am bored and also can't be arsed to cook anything.

When my husband lived here. I use to cook an evening meal so could not really binge.

Yours

Calley