GP appointment

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I have a long history of mental health when I was a teenager. I spent years in hospital with self harm, anorexia and suicide attempts but been stable for 10 years. Hard few years and struggling more recently with mood. My weight is overweight on BMI scale and I’ve lost weight. Have been using Mounjaro but just say no to the past ED history. Also since June I’ve been purging after meals. Went to GP about 4/5 weeks ago and started sertraline and had follow up yesterday. At initial appointment said I was making myself sick after meals again and was getting a bit out of control and she just asked yesterday how’s it going and I said still the same and asked if I was taking my omeprozole. That was it really. I don’t really know what I wanted/expected but I am a bit worried as it’s most days and I know my BMI is 27 so they won’t care but idk. It took me a lot to bring it up and I just felt a bit like they don’t give a crap. They just said to follow up again in 3 weeks time.

Ive got private health insurance through work so I’ve started counselling with that but haven’t felt able to bring this up yet.

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Arrange to see a private psychiatrist specialising in EDs before it gets totally out of control. Your medical insurance will cover that.

I totally agree with @Timeforhector. You have a long history with severe mental illness. Right now you’re aware of the situation. Soon you may be too ill to recognise that you’re ill or too ill to care. That puts you at risk of hospitalisation or worse.

You’re in relapse by the sound of it brought on by eating far less than your body requires. That means there’s still a lot of work to be done to bullet proof yourself from further relapses even once you get past this current situation.

As your work has private insurance, you should use it to access specialist private ED support and therapy. Please do.

Sorry to restart this thread again. This has still been going on. I had to speak to GP today about something else and also just general tiredness/weakness. It was over the phone and I mentioned that I’m still making myself sick and they just disregarded what I said and ignored it. Is this normal? It was a different GP this time. I’m doing some private therapy but it’s not easy to talk about.

That’s awful but unfortunately you can’t rely on any support for ED via theNHS unless you are really severely ill. You need to see a private psychiatrist who specialises in ED.

That was not my experience at all. I had a very supportive GP.

Yeah even if you're life threateningly ill you may not get a bed. It seems awful but yeah they don't really care otherwise. And then when they do 'care' they take away every shred of your autonomy and they will force you to eat 4000 calories a day. You will be watched 247, listened to in the toilet and no locking the door.

Please don't let yourself get that unwell. Definitely see a private ED specialist.