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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EDs are awful.  But it is also for awful for teenage girls with true GI issues to have to try to prove somehow that they don't have EDs in order to get the medical treatment they need.

Don't know what the answer is.[/quote]

00:52 here. 100% agree with this. Just wanted to mention the fact that some people with EDs have these same complaints, did not mean any offense![/quote]

I am the PP and have the DD with gastroparesis.  And yes--this is true, making it even trickier. It is possible for a bulimic to develop gastroparesis, but in almost all cases only after many years of throwing up.  It's pretty rare.

What we found, however, it that once we got the gastroparesis identified and got to the right specialists, they knew how rare bulimia as a cause is and were capable of figuring out very quickly DD's case was not an ED.

It was the general practice doctors who seemed especially quick to leap to the conclusion what she must have an ED. That's pretty much true of almost all young women who have this disorder, which can be incredibly incapacitating.  They then can get stuck in the position of trying to prove a negative in order to get medical care.  Many of them are like my DD on the edge between life and death before they get it.

As I said, I don't know what the answer is for distinguishing rapidly between those with an ED and those with a medical GI problem so each group can get the care they need promptly.[/quote]

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