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    Misdiagnosed with Eating Disorders?

    That is right for most cases but as I said before when I was in hospital the person in the bed next to me that it happened to was a boy who was also misdiagnosed with anorexia nervosa.
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    Misdiagnosed with Eating Disorders?

    That sounds terrible twokatmew. Tranquillisers !! Were you in pain? And did you tell them? I don't see why doctors are still getting it so wrong mistaking a physical problem for a mental one after all these years. I thought it was rare but obviously not. I was told I had very serious anorexia...
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    Crohns and anorexia?

    This was the same for me at the start I thought my stomachs looked quite big, which I now realise was bloating, but no one saw it but my even when I lost so much weight because of the crohns my stomach would stay big, some days bigger than others. I was wrongly diagnosed with anorexia nervosa...
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    The Miserable Prednisonites Club

    I'm now off pred :) but when I was on it I was first given intravenous steroids as I had a bad reaction to the pred and when I was finally put on the pred I gained lots of weight and my cheeks blew up and made me look like a chipmunk ha! My face is just starting to get back to normal now thank...
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    Misdiagnosed with Eating Disorders?

    Uxmas I know. When I was in hospital and was diagnosed with crohns they still wouldn't stop saying I was anorexic when it was very clear I wasn't. And when I was put on a feed through an ng tube I was still loosing weight for some reason so the doctors thought I was making myself sick !! So they...
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    Misdiagnosed with Eating Disorders?

    This has happened to me when i was 15. I ended up a dangerous 5st in weight after I was wrongly misdiagnosed with being anorexic. It was only march this year I was diagnosed with crohns. When my appetite became very low and started getting cramping pains in my tummy I stated to loose a lot of...
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