Endocrine Abstracts

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 10 years old. Then in 2014, when I was around 15 years old, I begin developing an eating disorder which was diagnosed as a combination of both anorexia and bulimia tendencies. After struggling with the condition, as it got increasingly worse, by myself for around 4 months I was referred to CAMHS. Having an eating disorder made my HBA1C very unsteady and rather high (but never above 9%/ 75 mmol/mol), which in turn made me suffer w...

Introduction: Young people with an eating disorder are likely to have a morbid preoccupation with weight and/or shape associated with a dread of fatness, a determined avoidance of food with dramatic loss of weight (Anorexia nervosa) or binge-eating followed by self-purging through self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or diuretics (Bulimia Nervosa). Diabetes is uniquely placed to offer opportunities for weight and shape control without overt avoidance of food. It is increasi...

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