THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST!!! The symptoms/complications are in alphabetical order with both phyisical and behavioral symptoms mixed.
Symptoms and complications listed are for anorexia, bulimia, and EDNOS. Not listed are: binge eating disorder, anorexia athletica, over-exercise, night eating, overeating, orthorexia. I will get more information on those and add them later. For now there are just three types listed. Symptoms and complications specific to bulimia will have this symbol ♦ in front of it Symptoms and complications specific to anorexia will have this symbol ♣ in front of it. Though a symptom may be specified to one eating disorder or the other, it can still exist in someone without that specific disorder.
- Abnormal blood counts
- Abnormal eating rituals (cuts food up small, moves food on plate but doesn't eat it)
- Absence of menstruation or becoming shorter and lighter
- ♦Acid reflux or ulcers
- ♦Alternating between overeating and fasting
- Anemias----{ a condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or in total volume}
- Angry when confronted about food or weight
- Anxiety when eating in front of other people
- Avoidance of social situations where food may be present
- Avoids or skips meals regularly
- Bathroom visits after meals
- Becoming withdrawn
- Believing too fat even when thin
- ♦ Binge eating
- Bloating
- Blood flow is reduced.
- Bluish discoloration of the fingers
- Bone loss
- ♣Breast atrophy--------{a wasting away of an organ or part, or a failure to grow to normal size as the result of disease, faulty nutrition, etc. any degeneration or diminution, esp through lack of use}
- Brittle nails
- ♦Broken blood vessels in the eyes
- Cardiac arrest and death
- Chest pain
- ♦ Chronic sore throat, hoarseness
- ♣ Cold hands and feet
- Complaining of being "too fat", even when thin
- Compulsive exercising
- Concern about being overweight
- Constipation
- Controlling behavior
- ♣Cooks for others but does not eat herself
- ♦Decayed teeth
- Decreased metabolic rate
- Dehydration
- Denial of hunger
- ♣Denial of low body weight
- Denial that they are ill
- Depression
- Desire to lose weight
- Difficulty concentrating
- Distortion of body image
- ♦Diuretic use (increases amount of urination)
- Dizziness
- Dry skin
- ♦Eating until they become sick
- Edema (water retention)
- ♣Electrolyte imbalances
- Emaciation
- ♦Esophagus inflammation - from purging or vomiting
- Exercise more than 1 hour a day 3 to 4 days a week to control weight
- Excessive thirst
- Excessive preoccupation with food
- Excessive urination
- ♣Excessive weight loss
- Excuses for not eating meals (ie. ate earlier, not feeling well)
- Exhibits an obvious reduction in eating
- Exhibits fear or anxiety before eating, and guilt after eating.
- ♣Fainting
- Fatigue
- Fear of gaining weight
- ♦Fear that once they start eating they won't be able to stop
- Feeling out of control
- Feeling that happiness is undeserved
- Frequently looking in the mirror
- ♣Find it difficult to consume a full normal portion of food (if it is due to fear of consuming it then it is behavioral however sometimes, especially in anorexia, the body gets used to eating small portions and can not take in a normal amount of food making it physical)
- Guilt or shame about eating
- ♦Going to the kitchen after everyone else has gone to bed. Going out alone on unexpected food runs. Wanting to eat in privacy.
- Hair that thins, breaks or falls out
- ♦Hand injuries from inducing vomiting
- Headaches
- heart muscles starve, losing size.
- Heart palpitations
- ♦hides food
- Hollow-looking eyes
- Hyperactivity
- Ignoring feelings of hunger
- Inability to remember things
- ♦Inability to stop eating. Eating until the point of physical discomfort and pain.
- Inability to tell whether or not they are full or hungry. The body's natural mechanisms for indicating hunger or satiety are disturbed.
- ♣individual ribs and hip bones visible
- Inflicting self-harm
- Insecurities about capabilities regardless of actual performance
- Insomnia
- ♣Intentional starvation
- Intense body dissatisfaction
- Interpersonal conflicts
- ♣Intolerance of cold
- Irregular heart rhythms
- Irritability
- Infertility
- Kidney and liver damage
- Labeling food as either 'good' or 'bad' with generally an increased urge to binge on 'bad' foods.
- Lack of energy
- Lack of sexual interest
- Light-headedness
- Loss of body fat
- Low blood pressure
- ♣Low body temperature
- ♣Low body weight.
- Low potassium (most common cause of nocturnal cardiac arrest)
- Low self-esteem
- Low thyroid function
- Malnutrition
- Mood swing
- ♣Muscle atrophy (wasting away of muscle mainly due to lack of use and/or lack of nutrition)
- No known physical illness that would explain weight loss
- Not feeling pain as you normally would.
- Need for approval
- Not wanting or refusing to eat in public
- Noticeable discomfort around food
- Obsession with weight
- Obsessive-compulsive behavior
- Obsessiveness about calorie intake
- Osteoporosis
- Pale complexion (almost a pasty look)
- Perfectionist attitude
- Playing with food
- Preoccupation with tidiness
- Preoccupation with food and calorie intake
- Problems getting along with family members/long-time friends
- Purplish skin color on the arms and legs from poor blood circulation.
- ♦Puffy “chipmunk” cheeks
- Refusing to eat
- ♦Regular episodes of out-of-control binge eating
- Repeatedly checking weight
- ♦Repeatedly eating large amounts of food in a short period of time
- Resistance to treatment
- Restricting food choices to only diet foods
- Rigid eating schedule
- ♦Ruptured stomach or esophagus
- Secretive about eating patterns
- Self-worth is determined by food intake
- Self-worth determined by weight
- Severe self-criticism
- Shortness of breath
- Skin problems
- Slow emptying of the stomach.
- Slow heartbeat (fewer than 60 beats a minute).
- ♣Soft, downy hair covering the body
- Stomach pains
- suicidal tendencies
- Swelling of arms or legs
- Swollen joints
- Tiredness
- Thin appearance
- Throws out food to avoid eating it
- Under-eating
- Vulnerable to infections
- Weakness
- Wearing baggy clothes to hide weight loss
- Wearing layered clothing - used to hide weight loss
- Weighing foods
- Withdrawal from friends, family and social situations
- Won't eat in front of others
- Yellow-orange skin, especially on the palms of the hands.
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