I was diagnosed as anorectic for years. I was literally afraid to eat. 79 lbs. was my lowest weight. Am I a healthy weight now? YES!!! I'm 5'6" and 114 lbs. I have to eat A LOT to maintain that weight. And when I'm in a D phase, I worry, because well it's nothing for fifteen or twenty pounds to just vanish. Eating hurt. Passing/digesting/processing food was painful. Therefore, I did not eat much, or not at all, and only the things that were safe, i.e. rice cakes, plain rice, applesauce, carrots, squash, no-chicken soup, mushrooms, zucchini, and too many really brown bananas to count (I like them when they are considered inedible by most).
Is there a connection between IBS and eating disorders? I cannot answer that. But to alot of the connections between the irritants (IF, wheat, alchol, coffee, fat, red meat, and dairy) made a lot of sense with my D, C, and bloating/gas. Even the smell of coffee gives me D. Seriously. Am I obsessive re: input? Yes. Am I worried about my weight? Not anymore, unless it gets too low. Do I think a lot of anorectics I met in treatment have IBS. Yes.
We made lists initially, in treatment, of foods we were exempt from (we were allowed to in that specific treatment program) and that is when the IBS was noticed by the nursing/M.D. in treatment. A lot of the anorexics and bulimics too had a lot of the same items they excluded and they were IBS triggors. We discussed the symptoms. So, that's my humble answer.
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