[ARCHIVED THREAD] - A New Eating Disorder (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/20/2006 9:21:07 PM EDT
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OK, so I go see this woman in room 14. 5'4", about 310 lbs. She has belly pain and says she's constipated. She also tells me that for the past 6 weeks she HAS BEEN EATING TOWELS because she thinks that the towels will either absorb her food or take up enough space in her stomach so as to keep her from eating so much. After 15 years of this, I am no longer surprised, but still frequently appalled. 
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Paper or cloth eta- how old is she ? |
Oh man... sad really. What do you do in a case like that? Psych evaluation or what? |
I first had to make sure there wasn't any type of bowel obstruction/inflammation. I told her flat out that she needed to see a shrink, to which she responded by crying. That was pretty. |
Given that her CT scan was normal, she got a prescription for Super Colon Blow and was sent home. Any sign of the oral contrast not passing through would have likely bought her a few days in the hospital with the strong possibility of getting her ample belly opened up. |
Well, that is good news. Life is hard enough on folks like that without adding anything to it. |
Good question. Stupid or crazy? I recommended an employee see a shrink after he started drinking a tablespoon of dishwasher soap every day at lunch time. A customer of ours, who is a doctor, jokingly told the guy to do it. He wasn't crazy. He was just gullible.z ETA: After everyone here heard that story, one of the guys sent him to buy blinker fluid after a turn signal bulb quit in one of the trucks. The poor guy went to seven different stores to look for it. I had thought everyone had heard that joke before.z |
I saw a pregnant woman once who said she was going to sue the manufacturer of the spermicidal jelly that she had been using until she got pregnant. It didn't work, even though she put it on her toast every morning... |
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i watched this show on TLC i think called something like "101 of the craziest things removed from inside of a person" holy crap that was some gross stuff. i cant even really remember anything except the last one, which was another human being which had been growing inside of a man since he was born, and this guy had to be in his 40's. Oh my god it was so groteque, you could make out some distinguishing characteristics on the face, the arms and hands, etc. anyone else see that? very disturbing, toilet paper would'nt have even made it on the show because the other shit was much worse. eewwwwwiiiiiiieeeeeee i feel like i need to take a shower just for thinking about it.. 
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I was not going to laugh at this thread, since it seems to me that the woman is desperate to lose wieght, and needs some mental help to boot, BUT damn that was the funnist thing I have read in a long time, 
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I saw that. It was his twin brother that never developed, and somehow grew inside him. I think it was in India. It was basically calcium deposits they said, but it looked like a baby. You think you'd notice something like that somewhere before 40! |
Just a little window into my life. 
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You ARE kidding 
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It is called "fetus in fetu" or Parasitic twin. |
Good GOD. She weighs almost 3 times what I do. Is saying "NO" to that second double cheeseburger THAT hard?? I'm just floored that her "bright thought of the day" was to eat towel, to offset her appitite. Somebody should clue her in, that she's really beyond even Atkins now, and needs to consider the crack diet at this point.   |
Nope. If ARDOC were around, I'm sure he could back it up. Stupidity is not that uncommon. ETA: I can't count how many times I have seen people who insist suppositories don't work for vomiting. I now routinely ask them if they remove the foil wrapping before use. The looks I get are priceless. |
Can't forget the chick who got sick from eating Monistat suppositories.... |
Well… Assume she takes in about 100 calories more than she burns off every day. That’s probably about the difference between a 12 ounce and 20 ounce soft drink. A pound of fat is something like 3,000 calories, so if she does this she will gain a pound a month. 12 pounds a year. 120 pounds a decade. If she’s in her 30s it’s easy to see how she weighs so much. As she gains weight she will need a few more calories every day but she also becomes less active and burns a few less... Not saying that’s the case here but fat people aren’t necessarily food obsessed pigs either. |
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Sometimes you just end up thinking that the cure for some people is a bullet in the head, you know? I mean, shoot yourself so you don't have to deal with the endless droves of marching morons. But no, that won't work, either, because if you shoot yourself you go to hell, and hell would of course be filled with fat, unwashed democrats with eating disorders, no common sense whatsoever, and the wrong idea about EVERYTHING. In short, it'd be like Washington, DC. CJ |
Man, that's been going around for a while. Either you're just restating an old story, or there are a hell of a lot of stupid people, and I'm more inclined to believe the latter. |
Are you offering to make me a sammich?  I DO eat when I'm hungry. I'm NOT skinny, but I am in shape.  Part is genetics, part is discipline, part is work. |
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4xDawn grow up a bit in every obese thread you made some wise ass remark. You have no ideal what its like for these people. At one point i was 400lb now i am down to 293 and still working on it. Imagine waking up everyday wanting to kill yourself. Food is your only escape it makes you feel good. Its a fat persons bad habit, They are feeling down they eat and it picks you up for a secant. Its very hard getting on the right track and replacing eating with working out or going for a walk. |
That's not genetics, Dawn. You work out obsessively. I was down around 12% (which is the borderline safe for women... any less and you affect your reproductive system) when I was doing ONE THIRD the workout that you're doing. Just trying to keep us all honest here.  |
ETA: The only reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to shoot them. 
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Lots of urban legends out there, I know; but I remember this woman specifically. The nurse I was working with at the time and I still laugh about it. Kind of like the woman who came in with a hard-boiled egg in her vagina. She swore she had no idea how it got in there. And while I'm thinking about it, I learned a new trick about 2 weeks ago. Strippers cut off their tampon strings so they can still work while on their menstrual cycle. I know that because one came in when she remembered she had left the tampon in, but couldn't find it--two weeks later.
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You an OB/GYN or GP? If you're an OB/GYN, I feel very sorry for you. Although I suppose you can now claim the title of ARFCOM Cat Doctor |
Emergency Medicine. All the problems, all the time. |
If open season were declared on stupid people, we'd all run out of ammo before the weekend's up. And I have about 3000 rounds on hand at any given moment.  .......I guess I'd run out before midnight...... I'd better increase my stock levels just in case that happens. CJ |
 Is that the technical term? I remember that SNL.
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