Bulimia

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Yesterday i binged, and i wanted to try purging it all out....

i tried for like 2 minutes but didn't manage to purge anything out at all....

instead my face got really blotchy and there were blood red dots appearing around my eye area....

i freaked out and stopped trying to purge the food out....

the red blood dots are still around my eye area.....

anyone experienced the same thing as me???


the blood dots really freaked me out... when will they go away??? Is there any way I can do to speed up the process of them dissipating or something???

i look hideous with so many blood red dots on my face....especially around the eye area...

PLEASE HELP!
 
I'm treading very lightly here...but this is NOT a forum to discuss how to become bulimic.
What you did was burst the tiny blood vessels in your face...and I consider that a mild side effect to the self-destructiveness of bulimia. Bulimia will cause a number of health problems, totally un-related to making yourself too thin: excessive vomiting will errode the enamel on the teeth..eventually rotting them away - you'll constantly have a sore throat from the stomach acid, and your esophogus will become swollen and inflamed. Eventually you will kill yourself, or end up in rehab.

The simple solution here is: 1. don't binge, and if you do, live with it. 2. don't purge - its not the answer, its not long term, and it has more negative than positives. 3. I think you need to see a counselor/therapist to discuss why you feel the need to purge.
 
Ling,

I think you will find the people of this forum to be very considerate and thoughtful when it comes to creating discipline and serious life changing decisions around diet and exercise. If changing your behavior around diet is something you are commited to, you will find alot of support here. Malkore is 100% right, what you are doing is self destructive and this forum is not the platform for attention. If you decide to make changes to diet and exercise in your life, I say good luck, if not I suggest you seek professional help.
 
Im horrified to see your post, Im recovering after suffering from bulimia for over 10 years. The blood spots will eventually go after a few days, these can often be found on the neck aswell. The pressure of vomiting can cause your face to swell up like a balloon and after doing it for a period of time the acid from your stomach not only rots your teeth and gums but will eat away at your tounge. Hmm, nice smell.
Scabs will form on your knuckles from rubbing your fingers against your teeth and they won't heal because of continual wear. They will get infected and ooze puss. Classy.
By sticking your fingers down your throat your not getting rid of all the food and so its not at all an effective way of getting rid of it anyway so what a waste of time all that was.
Its not worth it, it'll mess your head up. Keep getting healthy information on sites like these and stick to a well balanced meal with plenty of working out and you'll feel awsum! :)
 
Same Here

I have to stop it I know... That's why I am here.
It's a vicious cycle- I don't like the way I look, so I try to restrict calories too low, but then i just end up eating something I would never normally want to eat and I puke (I don't use my fingers though).
I know I know it's really bad and I want to stop- luckily I haven't been doing it for long.
hopefully being here will help.
 
I get the spots too.

I don't know if I can be classified with bulimia or not. I doubt it. My "purging" only happens about once every 10-15 days as of late. I have been good dieting and once in a while I binge and feel guilty and so I purge it. Like tonight I went into the fridge and had a plate full of baked ziti with a piece of sausage. Other than that I actually did really good on my diet today but that one plate made me feel guilty and like I screwed up so I purged.

Its stupid really because even with the plate of pasta I ate less than people I know who ate more than me today who wiegh a lot less and eat like thta regularly.

I have the spots around my eyes now. They go away over like 2 days or so. Not real attractive so it may not be worth it but I dunno. It releives the guilt and the excess food (and probably some more).

I don't think it releives the guilt either. I think its a self-inflicted punishment. You did wrong and in order to rectify the wrong doing you get punished in the process.

My uses here are infrequent so I don't worry too much about health problems but I wouldn't advise anyone to do this. As someone said, either don't binge or when you do live with it. Its easier said than done, however.

To those far more knowledgeable than I:

Are there health risks to infrequent purging? How serious?

Vinnie
 
.......How is that not a form of bulimia? Seriously.

And I imagine that nonfrequent has he same number of health risks, just occuring at a slower rate. I cannot be sure, though.
 
Helath risks for bulimia are only serious for repetiive long trm use in my understanding. Sporadic short term use may not be the bets thing in the world for you but the health risks aren't as serious as some people make them IMO.

In bulimia the cycle of overeating and purging usually becomes an obsession and is repeated often. I don't do this. Once in a while I slip up and eat mroe than I should (not even HUGE binges) and I make the choice to purge due to a number of reasons. I have no obsession with this and can stop at any time (and I do it infrequently) to begin with.

Yes I have some of the same symptoms but lots of people on a diet who mess up feels a loss of self control followed by a period of calmness and self-loathing for a time. I consider that normative.
 
Ah, ok.

You might be able to consider a feeling of control loss normal, but I seriously doubt most people on diets purge their food when they feel a loss of control. I can't think of anyone I know on diets who show any sign at all of doing so.

"The severity and frequency of the symptoms of bulimia vary a great deal. At the one end of the bulimic continuum there are women who regularly, but very infrequently vomit, use laxatives or diuretics if they feel uncomfortable after a very large meal."

(Taken from ).

Anyway, if it doesn't offend you, what are you reasons for purging?
 
Anti-peristalsis

First off, let me say that I've had no experience with bulimia other than academics (i.e., health class). However, I have been unlucky enough to have had two bouts with a particularly virulent strain of the flu while traveling overseas. Among other things, this involved a fair share of vomiting. When I got sick the second time, the doctors on my ship recommended against my taking anything to prevent me from vomiting, as this was my body's natural mechanism for ejecting the virus. But, as many of you know, it hurts a lot. In the end, they prescribed some pain medication and specific foods (lots of ruffage, believe it or not). I obviously got through it and am none the worse for wear. My point in this is that, given how medically interested the docs were with my case (i.e., how much they worried about me), I am absolutely certain that vomiting is physically detrimental under any circumstances. It is a necessary evil, as it were. Using it voluntarily and against the advice of your body simply cannot be good (in my estimation).
 
A couple of things...
There is a big book that all mental health professionals use to name or diagnose anything under the sun. In that book, it specifies certain periods of time that you have had to exhibited the behavior (anorexia, bulimia, etc..) in order to classify as "being bulimic". If you only binge and purge every once and a while, and also mmet a few other criterion, then you would fall into the catagory eating disorder NOS (Not otherwise Specified)..point of all of this? That just because you only binge/purge every so often doesn't mean your eating isn't considered disordered. Most people in the psych community consider disordered eating as being a control issue. I just urge you to see what you are doing for what it is. It is a big deal. It may not seem as though it is, but you can go along feeling as though you control it until one day you wake up and it now controls you. Eating disorders do not discriminate, nor can it "not happen to me because I am too strong". It isnt' a matter of strenghth, gender, willpower, etc... OK
Seriously consider talking to someone about this behavior. Also, FYI..everytime you comlete the cycle you are screwing with your metabolism...it can effect your thyroid functioning, etc...etc...only making it harder for you to obtain the physical appearance you want in the long run..Good luck to you




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