Question:
Thanks for that information! I was wondering if u had time if we could talk! I am frighten about a few things! Thanks Leah
Response:
I am not going to paint a pretty picture here, so will spoiler * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * OK….I was a severe laxative abuser. I was anorexic first, then started using laxatives to "rid" my body of what little I did eat. Started outwith just a couple laxatives at night…a year later, I was taking almost 100 in the morning before work. Try to explain to your co-workers why you are running to the bathroom every 5 minutes, often ending up laying on the floor in there puking from the overdose as well, with wicked stomach cramps, dehydration, and bloating. Try never ever being able to leave your house because your life revolves around laxatives. yes, I lost weight, but thats also because I was Anorexic at the time as well, so I am sure that alot of it was not only water, but when you take 100 a day you do incredible damage to your insides. Try being in the hospital after recovery (not an ED thing, was in there due to lupus complications) and they want to give you a laxative to make sure you have a bowel movement before they send you home, and you have to explain why one wont work. (Yes, I had to do this…and one still never works even though I have not abused laxatives for over a year now). I started the viscious cycle of laxative abuse in 1990, after having had Anorexia since about 1984. When I remember the pain, the embarrassment, I cringe. Nights of no sleep because I are so dehydrated my whole body is in spasms. Blacking out on the way from the bathroom and hitting my head on the counter top ending up with a concussion. And waking up in the morning to start ALL over again…lining up the 100 pills in rows of 2 and taking them until I felt like puking (or until I did, which happened alot). Then barely making it the bathroom at work. When I think of all the money I spent on laxatives, it makes me ill (I had to have 2 specific brands..the whole OCD thing really came in here). At 100 a day, almost daily for 3 years? You do the math. No wonder I couldnt have a phone, or pay my bills. Shoot, I didnt even have a LIFE. Between vomiting, starving, and using laxatives, my days and nights were consumed with guilt, pain, lonliness. Yet I did it again and again, and even after stopping in 1994, I restarted in 1997 for about 8 months. No more..thats it. Between my having lupus, and the damage I have done to my GI tract, I will be forever dependant on RX meds to digest my food. I live on Pepto-Bismol, Tums and Mylanta. I guess I am veering off track here…the question was "can you lose weight using laxatives"…well, sure you can….if you do what I did, starving, purging, and using laxatives..if you are willing to OD daily…dehydrating yourself until your potassium is low enough to kill you. Oh, and I am forgetting about the hemorroids too. Is it worth it? NO…its not. I wasted alot of my life in the bathroom, curled on the floor in pain…planning my next pill intake, etc. Is that a life? I dont think so….. Nikki Remove QzzzQ when replying by email (spam control)
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