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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
Stomach Spasms- Help
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Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions in the Emotional Eating forum are answered by Dr. Roger Gould. Topics covered include anger and eating, anxiety and eating, binge eating, depression and eating, eating to "fit in", emotional eating, fill the void eating, guilt and eating, loneliness and eating, social eating, and stress and eating.
Stomach Spasms- Help
by xxCAB, Sep 09, 2007 10:48PM
I believe that one of my friends is struggling with anorexia nervosa, or some other sort of eating disorder. One thing she mentions often are the spasms she gets every night in her stomach area- and it is her stomach, not her intestines or anything else. She is very touchy about the subject of food, and often refuses dinner invitations to my home or to go out, which she used to love doing. Also, about 6 months ago, she told me that she would make herself throw up her food but was quitting, and she hasn't done it since...or at least that is what she told me. I still find her walking about of bathrooms looking flushed or with tears in her eyes after meals, and it is really scary. Could the spasms she is getting be a result of not eating properly or forcing herself to throw up? I know about IBS and PVS, but it just doesn't seem right.
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Sep 10, 2007 08:20AM
, Sep 10, 2007 08:20AMTo: xxcab
What you are describing sounds like rather classical bulimia, and yes, she could be injuring her health very significantly by doing this. I suggest that you risk some of your friendship chits to have a very straight, caring talk with her about just what you have described here and urge her to see a psychiatrist.
Member Comments (2)
by xxCAB, Sep 10, 2007 05:20PM
I've talked to her about it, and it was a huge deal for a while, but now I was wondering if the spasms could be correlated to her eating?
