Prozac/ Bulimia TMI

As someone who as been in your shoes and overcome 10 years of bulimia now for over 15 years I will offer what I can. I'm not a fan of drugs and can't offer you much on your specific question. I can tell you that trying to deal with A. addictive compulsive behavior at the point of purging is like trying to stop a leaky hose with duct tape. When you are well enough to loose the binging, you will be well enough to battle the purging.
I'm going to recommend a book that helped change my attitude about food called : How to be Naturally Thin by Eating More. It deals with emotional eating and more. I overcame without medicine or psychologists. I overcame through prayer, maturing, learning to love myself, stopping negative self talk, learning to trust that my body could handle food. I learned not to deprive myself and therefore stop the downward spiral of binge purging. I Learned to eat mostly healthy with occasional treats in reasonable portions. I learned to recognize real hunger vs. emotional hunger and to never eat when It was not genuinely hungry. When the urge to binge was gone, i was well enough to let go of the purging too. I hope you can get a handle on this, your life will be so much brighter.
Eta: I don't think that forgoing the purging while continuing to binge eat until your stomach hurts constitutes real progress. I say this from a point of no judgment having personally been unable to stand up straight from binge eating more times than I care to know. Get to the bottom of the emotional eating and binging primarily and the purging secondarily. One is the symptom of the other. If you continue to binge but not purge, you will still have A. eating disorder by a different name but A. eating disorder non the less- making your life miserable. I hope I'm not being too harsh, I feel for you and you are in my thoughts.

It's wonderful that you recognize and want to deal with your eating disorder. That's great! I'm not sure why you think Prozac will come up - try not to anticipate what the psychiatrist will say. Discuss your concerns about any medication suggested, and get a 2nd opinion if you feel you need to. Give your current counselor permission to talk to the psychiatrist and vice versa, if you haven't already. For now, take one day at a time and don't try to solve all of this yourself. Don't assume that your future experience will be what another friend's experience was. Discuss your issues in a safe and neutral setting with your counselor and see if you can use your friends to get together with you and have all the moms and all the kids play trains together. The support can be very helpful. Good luck and keep working on getting healthy!

Congratulations on taking the first step and gettinig help for your eating disorder. Only good can come of getting help. We all know that eating disorders aren't about the weight, but the underlying issues and feeling out of control.

As for Prozac, I've never had A. issue regarding weight. There are many anti-depressants on the market that you and your therapist can explore.

Again, good luck in getting well.

I struggled with A. eating disorder in highschool and college and although the weekly counseling sessions and group therapy were OK, what really helped was the weekly meetings with the nurse and keeping a food journal. By doing this I was able to see really see...what I ate, when, and how I felt before and after. Often I would see that I was eating because I was sad, depressed, nervous, lonely, etc. and when I felt those feelings, I was eating things like candy, ice cream, etc. and felt guilty after and purged. Slowly and successfully, over time began to change those habits with healthier ones like either picking something healthy to eat, thus not feeling guilty and purging or not eating at all and going for walk or perhaps...just having a drink instead.
I don't really know how effective drugs are since they are just a temporary solution and don't fix the problem of why you are doing what you are doing and what you can do to change it so that you are healthy for yourself and for your family. Best of luck to you and just take it one day at a time.

Prozac does not typically cause weight gain, in fact it suppresses my appetite. I think that anything you can use in your arsenal to help you fight this, you should use. If that's you in your profile pic, you're beautiful, I wish you weren't so worried about your weight. I'll send good thoughts & prayers your way!

I JOKE that I have A. eye disorder (I just can't see myself right in the mirror)... but I'm actually anorexic.

For the first time since I was maybe SIX years old... when taking Straterra... I had no body issues. Since that's a rather LONG list, I'll just keep it short and sweet... but, seriously. No. Body. Issues.

Keeee-razy.

Mind blowing.

Life altering.

Of course, now I'm not on it, but hey. For a short period of time... I really enjoyed being in my own skin. Still makes me laugh a bit. It was a great experience. I was actually taking it for ADHD stuff, but it was a GREAT side effect.

Straterra (A. ADHD med) is now being given off-label to many anorexics, although it's not commonplace, yet.

Girl, I wish I could give you a big hug! I don't have any experience with your subject, but I wanted to suggest EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique in addition to seeing a psychiatrist and going to counseling.

You are doing a great job, mama! It's evident that you love your kiddos. I pray that you are able to be free of this. You aren't crazy!!!!