Im worried about a friend, she has lost alot of weight recently and i think she could have an eating disorder. she may have gastric reflux (doctors aren’t sure, they are doing another test on thursday) could this be a sign that she has an eating disorder.
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I asked the recent spate of questions because depression is a complex issue. It comes from brain chemistry inbalances.
Because my son tried to kill himself when he was 10. He’s only alive today because the belt broke and he fell down and it loosened. If you think I think suicide is a joke, you are wrong. I am neither flippant nor mocking. I am deadly serious. I’m not angry, not furious, not annoyed at outbursts and name calling. I’m not implying anything about natural mothers on here. I’m not taking swipes at adult adoptees. Supplying links to studies is not a straw man gambit. I am not arguing with you about your views.
If you are parenting a foster child which you adopted that is showing signs of distress or reactive behavior, you need to know ALL the different possibilities that go into your child’s recovery.
My son was a small birth weigh baby. He was born exposed to drugs, cocaine. He is impulsive, irritable, asthmatic, with gastric reflux, (which caused the asthma, btw,) and suffers from sensory integration issues.
He was treated by a therapist and several of them with different modalities since he was three. We understand trauma and loss, we were foster parents. Not rainbow adoptive ones. We acknowledge his pain. We work through his abandonment issues. We discuss his mother and how he feels about adoption and culture issues. We do the work that is needed. We did not tell him to suck it up and dismiss his feelings.
We addressed his early abuse experiences in therapy, his mother tried to kill him, she tried to suffocate him, she is schizophrenic and scared the bejeesus out of him during court ordered visits, till he came home shaking and they cut the visits off for his own safety before his 2nd birthday. He had several placements before he came to us at 4 months old.
Growing up he hurt children and he killed animals. And he wanted to die. He hurt himself after he stopped hurting others.
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I’m sitting in the asthma doctors office and he tells me they have come out with a red label warning about Singulair and suicide ideations, a drug my son has taken for years for asthma, and he says but you don’t have to worry about that,
I sat there stunned. “He’s been suicidal these past 3 years”, I tell him. We look at each other for a full minute.
We took him off the medicine. It helped reduce some of his symptoms. Other things have helped as well. He stopped trying to die.
There are a significant number of adopted children from foster care with asthma. Parents need to know the connections to ANYTHING that can help them find out how to help their children.
Okay so over the weekend i was in hospital with sever chest stomach and back pains. The pains were like I was wearing an extremely tight bra, and were constant but dull. The docotrs in the emergency ward told me i had gastric reflux, and sent me home with pain relief and an order to see my doctor. I saw my gp, and got an ultrasound done, turns out I have several gallstones, and they are rather large. We aren’t quite sure what they are made of just yet, but i’m thinking cholesterol. I’m still in quite a lot of pain, though mostly in my upper abdomen, which feels slightly hard to the touch. It’s worse first thing in the morning, and makes it hard to sleep at night. The doctor also said that there is no sign of a blockage or infection in my gallbladder either. My question is, how much pain is normal with gallstones, what can I take to relieve the pain, and does it sound liek i may have a bloakcge that needs to be checked out.
I also meant to ask if the pain is supposed to be constant, everything I have read mentions ‘attacks’, and pain lasting 4-5 hours. Any clues.
My 1 yr old dog is vomiting yellow fluid & will not eat. From what I read online it could be a number of things. The yellow fluid, i found out, is bile from the stomach. When a dog vomits yellow bile, it’s basicically written off as having bad gastral issues and an overactive stomach acid. Dogs usually vomit first thing in the morning or right after meals or after a long vigorous walk/exercise. So since he’s been vomiting, we’ve shortend his walk to just 1 block. Now he doesnt seem to want to walk anywhere, or eat anything. He just sits curled in a ball, moving from couch, to floor, to couch every few hours.and only moving to the back door once he needs to urinate. Since he’s at such a young age of 1 yrs old, he’s usually getting himself into trouble by grabbing items off tables so we can chase him. loves his walks & running & meeting ppl. and he usually sits by you when you’re eating (hoping you’ll throw him a scrap or two). But for the past 4 days he’s been moping around, not intrested in food, not intrested in walks, but at least he’s drinking water.
So here’s a basic day to day lately:
1. Friday morning he puked up yellow bile for the first time around 6 or 7am. he went on a walk and was eager to have his breakfast. but he vomited that up. We went online and thought his symptoms matched up to gastric reflux and we were directed to give him 2 tablespoons of Pepto Dismal (he’s a 55lbs Pitbull) twice a day before mealsand to take him off of his regular dry dog food. We were instrucet to give him a bland diet of boiled rice and/or boiled skinless chicken breast or boiled ground beef. We the ground beef the first day and he seemed okay. but then he vomited maybe twice more that evening (no beef in vomit). But we noticed a lot of things that werent food in the bile such as sunflower seed shells, bits of plastic/rubber from his toy, hair, some unidentifiable tiny pieces. He pooped a small amount of soft stool (smaller than usual).
2. Second day he wasnt even thinking about eating. but we gave him Pepto and he was okay. about an hour or so later we fed him boiled chicken and he gobbled it right up. he was still a bit inactive adn tired looking so we let him rest. Later on that evening we tried to give him more boiled chicken but he didnt want. so i tried to hand feed him despite him turning away from me, and he vomited right there. it seemed the smell of the chicken, or the thought of eating make him sickly. 
3. Third day, no eating whatsoever. moping around still, we gave him pepto and a few moments later he vomited a tiny bit of pepto, but no bile. we also bought NutriCal meal supplement for him so he could gain appatite, but it didnt work. But at least he had the nutrients because he began to look very gaunt and sickly. the third day was his birthday, he could not eat his birthday steak
4. Fourth day no eating, but he has been drinking lots of water and keeping Pepto & NutriCal down. He’s looking much healthier i think & has actually shown signs of activity (tail wagging, sniffing around) but only for a few moments, then back to moping & napping. I also noticed he’s been doing alot of standing in one place and staring for about 1-2 minutes before moving to the next spot to nap. He just seems drained of all energy and unintrested in eating still. I read today that it could be a Lymphoma, but none of his glands are swollen, also he’s a young dog, so this is ruled out almost immediatly. He did poop a good amount. It was a typical soft stool. There are never any foreign objects in his stool. He’s had his shots so we’ve ruled out Parvo virus and worms.
5. No vomiting today. He’s had NutriCal & a little Pepto in the morning. lots of napping, some staring. he’s a bit more alert which is good, but still not intrested in eating. We will try to blend a concoction of boiled chicken & NutriCal to force feed him today because he really needs some food in his system.
Could he not be eating because he’s afraid. Since this is his first time being sick I figure he’s afraid of eating because he doesnt want to vomit.or could it be because he has intestinal blockage and nothing is passing through.
Please help if you can. We really dont have the $200 for a vet visit and multiple tests. i would like to solve this problem at home, if we can.
Thanks for your time.
what are the absolute signs that you may have cancer in the esophgus. my husband for years has had acid reflux and throat and all the stomache sytonms and actually he has alot of bowel movement not exactly diarrehea but often he sometimes says he has the urge but he dosen’t go (bowel) that is. he has pain at the top of his stomache as well with a ball like hardness at the begining of the diaphram
any doctors in the house. he has had mri done 7 years ago nothing then but seven years is seven years i know lots can change as well please help