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Can people with anorexia have symptoms before they are actually considered "underweight"?
I have a friend, she is a normal healthy weight, but has little to no appetite and hardly ever eats. She will eat a couple bites and be full. If she forces herself to eat too much, she throws up because she's too full. She can not stand the cold. Even when it's slightly chilly outside she shivers violently, even with a thick sweater and a coat on. She is also very tired all the time and gets dizzy often. clumps of her hair fall out when she washes it, not sure if thats from being malnourished or not but she normally has thick, strong hair, and her hair is breaking. She has the symptoms, but she is just not underweight (yet). and mentally she's just kinda out of it, like scattered. she's gotten into minor car accidents lately because of how distracted and unaware she's been
3 Answers
- Anonymous5 years ago
Hi. Yes anorexia symptoms develop before a person becomes underweight. However, a lack of appetite, feeling full after a couple of bites and vomiting after eating too much are not symptoms of anorexia nervosa and instead point to a serious physical health condition. Your friend needs to see a doctor asap to find out the cause of her symptoms. I have the same problem right out and I'm becoming very unwell because I can't physically eat. If your friend 'only' had anorexia she would still feel hungry but would eat very little or nothing.
- PersephoneLv 75 years ago
Here's the deal.... is she deliberately not eating because she wants to lose weight? Everything you list could easily be symptoms of a medical disorder like a thyroid dysfunction. In fact it sounds very much like a thyroid dysfunction..... Anorexia is when a person deliberately starves themselves.
- 5 years ago
If she is purposefully restricting her food intake, then yes. This actually falls under the category of EDNOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified)/OSFED (other specified feeding and eating disorders). EDNOS was recently changed to OSFED, in the DSM-5 I believe.
If she is indeed purposefully restricting food, it could fall under the atypical anorexia branch of OSFED.
