Can bulimia damage your long term health?
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Yes, first of all you need to see a mental practioner. They will be able to assist you and plan out a therapy that will be most effective. Secondly, it WILL cause you serious health problems. NO ONE'S body is meant to go through what your is doing right now. It will be very bad if you don't stop. Just ask yourself: Is this really worth it?  Also, you will need dentures soon, due to the constant acidic state your teeth are in now.  Sorry to be so graphic, but you are not an exception to the rule.
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Part of should how that this is a disease and is not something you can decide to be then quit for a weight loss and the permanent damage it can to your body.. Pictures of before and after someone came down with the disease. How and why you need professional help
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Its a condition called Bulimia, people usually do it to lose weight, it has very harful long term effects. Find out more on -\nhttp://www.medicinenet.com/bulimia/article.htm\nhttp://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic810.htm
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If it is a friend of yours, there are some signe you should look out for.  Yellowing/brownish tinted teeth, or losing enamel.  Look for laxatives and water pills.  Bad breath is  big giveaway (not just bad, but raunchy).  If they disappear soon after meals, and you hear water running for a long time, nose blowing and tooth brushing, they might be trying to hide their vomiting.  Sometimes they exercise excessively, ritualistically, and constantly.  Sometimes they play games with food, like a lot of pushing it around on the plate, hesitating, procrastinating, cutting it up into a million little pieces, chewing a certain amount of times, taking a limited number of bites, doing a lot of picking and separating, etc.  Sometimes they stuff everything in sight and rarely come up for air, then disappear for about 15 minutes and do it again.  Extreme cases are when bones start to show through thier clothes (especially their spine, it looks as if it were on the exterior of their back).  Sometimes they grow peach fuzz all over their body and face.  Sometimes they lose their ability to menstruate.  Their faces start to look gaunt, less feminine, sunken eyes, and knobby knees.  Sometimes their index and middle fingers are stained.  Sometimes they are weak and shaky.  Sometimes when ou pinch their skin, it stays wrinkled for a while, if they are really dehydrated.  Sometimes their hair begins to thin out.  When a person starves, their body first starts to lose excess muscle tone, their metabolism slows down, and then they start to lose fat.  Then their hormones start to get messed up and then their potassium levels.  Systems start to experience difficulty, and eventually shut down.\n\nAnorexics starve themselves, and often throw up the litte they do eat. It's a bog power trip that has little to do with food, though it starts out that way.  It is based on displaced anxiety and contol issues.\n\nBulemia is when people starve for a while, then lose it and binge all that they can, and feel guilty and throw it all up.  They often repeat this process several times.  This doesn't get rid of weight faster than anorexia, but it can be more dangerous.  They are repeatedly bringing up chemicals and acids from their stomach (which has mucous linings to protect it) to their esophagus and throat, which burns it and burns off tooth enamel.  But the most dangerous part if that they can upset their potassium level so much that it can cause their heart to stop.  \n\nTerry Shaivo (on the news, feeding tube fiasco, chronic vegetative state) was bulemic, and vomited so much her heart stopped. She was found in time and saved, but in a permanent vegitative state due to severe brain damage.  \n\nBoth of these start out with weight and food issues, but those are the outlets for their extreme control issues and anxiety issues.  It's a power trip for them to regulate their body functions.\n\nIn most cases, they require an intervention, and professional counseling. It may take a long time to reprogram their coping skills, and internal dialogue.  Many overcome the disorder and reach out to others to help them by sharing their own experience, and this is a way to reinforce what they have learned and a way to maintain the new way they choose to live.  Overcoming an eating disorder is like overcoming cocaine addiction.  It is that powerful and life-altering.
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Please read below about some of the consequences of long-term laxative use before you decide to deal with your constipation this way.  These are things that can happen to anyone who uses laxatives long-term, not just people with eating disorders. Be careful.\n\n\nWhat are the Consequences? \n     Essentially, whether taken short term or long term, laxatives create and perpetuate the very problem they were intended to\ncorrect. \n     Laxatives induce constipation as the\ntissues become dried out, muscles become weak from lack of use, and the delicate nerves lining the colon become damaged. This damage slows intestinal motility and results in constipation. \n     With damage from long term laxative abuse, the colon may fail to function\nentirely. This is laxative dependency. \n     An individual who abuses laxatives may have diarrhea like stools in place of well formed stools.\n     Long term laxative abusers may\nexperience weight loss, hair loss, vomiting, abdominal pain, low energy, thirst, dry eyes, headaches, puffiness, mood swings, bone pain and suffer symptoms of dehydration. \n     With prolonged use of laxatives a\nnumber of serious problems may arise such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances, damage to other organs, and syndromes resembling colitis.
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Bulimia is a symptom of a more engrained disorder. You cannot cut down a tree by cutting off its branches, you have to go for its trunk and its root. Sometimes we only cut branches, sometimes we cut off the trunk, but if you don't take out the roots, the tree always grows back.\n\nThe obvious suggestion is to go see a therapist. However, that alone will not do it. It is important to seek outside support, bulimia groups and family support are important. If family is not an option, seek friends. The more shame you have, the more you will hide it and feed into the disease. It is important to accept it and find others who will accept you for it, so that eventually with their support and your own persistence you can overcome it.
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i dont know if you are asking this about yourself or a friend...but either way i would be concerned about possible anorexia or bulimia...whether it is you or a friend...you should really see a doctor...
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You will need to go to the hopsital because being Bulimic causing a lot of medical problems. You'll need treatment, and counseling. You can't do this alone. You're purging food, and that in the end will kill you. Your body is under a lot of stress, and the purging will stop your heart, cause esophagus bleeding, and many more deadly conditions. Go to the doctor A.S.A.P, and tell them what you just told us. You're going to need some depression meds for your low self esteem. Soon you will re-learn to eat. Sorry to say that Bulmia ALWAYS causes weight re-gain. When the food hits your stomach before purging you will start to absorb the food quickly into your blood stream. Get some help!!
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no, but dont pay attention to a group of people you know, or in this case don't know.  next time you go to the doctor ask him /her.   they are a reliable outside source, who willl tell you whats healthy for you.\n\nmy guess is you are asking because you aren't feeling too good about yourself.  don't go down the road of trying to control things by controlling what you eat.  my sister went through that, and in the end you will feel worse off.   because there  aren't enough pounds to take off to cover all the things that you can't controll.\n\ni could be wrong, and i'm sorry if your question has nothing to do with what I think it does.  but I didn't pick up on it early enough once.........  if I'm not wrong, go talk to somebody.  go to school and talk with a teacher or someone else (an adult, not a student) who you like/trust.  there are a lot of girls in your school with eating disorders - and im sure the school has a program availiable to help out. if you're feeling down do the same thing - there's nothing wrong with talking to somebody, only living with a bunch of crap rolling through your head that there is no way to get rid of, that just hurts day after day.
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The damage done by severe dieting is mainly caused by malnutrition. The things you do to achieve the weight loss will deprive your body of the nutrients it needs (including micronutrients) to function healthily.\n\nThe skin requires a constant supply of oils, and the fat-soluble vitamins they contain, to stay supple and springy. Repeated weight changes are harder for the skin to cope with if it is short of nutrients, so yo-yo dieting causes stretch-marks to appear more easily, and leaves the skin vulnerable to infection. \n\nSpecific effects will depend on the methods used to achieve the weight loss. Severe dieting causes heart problems by interfering with the availability of 'electrolyte minerals', and similar problems can affect the nerves in the skin; however, this usually only happens noticeably in severe starvation (prolonged anorexia or bulimia).
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In excess it can destroy your life. Check this website. you'll get your answers..
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too much of it can. it can also damage the stomach
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Heck YES, they can die! They need HeLp fast!!\n\nTo me, nothing but NOTHING is worth trying to "pretend" I'm (or my body) is _any_ way it's "truly" not!!\n\nIf I'm 15 lbs overweight, or my hair falls out sooner than I'd rather it would, or it turns from blond to grey sooner than I'd like -- SO WHAT?!! I'm still ME, Chuck.\n\nAnd if that's not good enough for you, I'll just pick up my tinker toys and go home where at least *I* love me. I don't need this competition crud, since it proves nothing. All competition does is feed the ego!! And if yours is hungry, a therapist is needed.  Besides.... I'm already smelling an "Inferiority Complex" or teenager or a woman under 35 yo.\n\nI just wish people would stop referring to bulimia as a "disease" unless a person wants to consider a self invoked line of 'thinking' as a "mental disease".
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don't be bulimic.  it can make you lose weight, but you're killing your body. don't.
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I can totally understand what you are saying.  All through high school i had really bad bulemia. Defintely go and see your doctor, no way they will laugh at you.  In fact if i hadnt gone to see my doctor when i did, I have no doubt in my mind i would not be here today. This is something i think you should discuss with your family, when you are going through something such as bulemia or anorexia its important to have your familys support to help you through it.  Good Luck
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What weight do you want to go down to? You want to waste away until you are nothing and so unattractively emaciated so that no man wants you or thinks your beautiful? You have a serious problem dear and I suggest you seek help please. bulemia is serious and you can get very ill from making yourself throw up all of the time and I am pretty sure you know this already. Your teeth will start to rot from the acid (if it hasnt already). Your self image is distorted by your brain. This is not healthy. Beautiful women are not starved. Do for yourself and eat properly.\n\nALSO this is what you said on another post to a girl that wanted to lose weight:\n\nAm in the same "bad" situation as u and i knw that it's a kind of war with yourself!The trick is to challenge yourself every day and do really what u have in your mind. \nDn't feel depressed when ur laziness is taking over ur determination n do ur upmost best to catch up the next day!\nN REMEMBER-U R NT ALONE!!! \n\ntake your own advice. Challenge yourself. Stop giving in to those temptations to throw up. Eat healthy, be healthy.
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Bulimia the though makes me sick