Dr.Edell, I have had this problem for over 30 years, but I can't find a doctor to believe me, recently while talking to a friends husband, I discussed the problem I was having and no doctors believe me, even one that actually saw what I was saying all along, later denied ever witnessing that my weight loss happened as I said,my friends husband then tells me his wife had been going through that for several years, I asked why she never said anything to me about it when i was bitching about the doctors ignore my crys for help finding out what was causing the problem, he tells me, she probley never said anything because no one ever believed her about it so she started with the Bulimic way of life just to get some weight off. True as it may seem, I have entertained the same idea, but for some reason I am afraid to vomit, I usually do anything to not vomit, I think God instilled that into me, for he has other ideas for me, I don't know. How it starts out is about every other year I will drop about 60 to 100 lbs. at the rate of about 5lbs. a day, no reason, not changing my eating habits or not doing any other acts of weight loss. Now honestly I only lost 100 lbs. once in 30 years, the other times it has been 40 to 60 lbs. at a rate of 5 lbs. a day, only to have gained it back in about six months. I have changed Doctors several times due to insurance changes, or just fed up with the care I was getting. But I made sure I told every Doctor I have gone to so when it would happen again they could watch, and maybe find out what was causing it, as well as the weight gain. There are other times when I would gain a large amount of weight ie. last year, I put on 60 lbs. in about 2 weeks, I was pretty much bed ridden due to a bad back, I broke my back and messed up a couple of disks and vereibrae, so most of my life now is down, for me to of gained that kind of weight I would have had a smorgie along my bed, right around that same time it was very hot, and food was the last on my list, fluids was the best for me. But there was no way I could explain to the doctor I had not been eating my life away. He just kept yacking about my need to diet and watch what I was eating. I tried to remind him that I told him this happens, and it was not my fault, but he ignored my crys. This happened at my workers comp. office about 5 years prior when I told him I was gaining weight at a rapid pace, for him to laugh and mock my words, then not pay attention and ignore my crys for help. Well then about two months ago I started loosing weight rapidly at 5 lbs. a day, no differance in my diet and nothing unusual in my life or way of life, I was in the doctors office when I weighed and was down 10 lbs. from where I was only a few days prior, I remarked I was in the process of weight loss again, with his tongue in cheek, he tells me come back in tomorrow, I did I was down another 5 lbs., 2 days later on his scale I was down another ten lbs. then Saturday, Sunday and on Monday I returned for him to see another 15 lbs. down, it ended with 40 lbs. in 8 days, he shrugged his shoulders and shook his head, while the other office personal was buzzing about it not being normal, the nurse practioner remarked I should probley go to a nutritionest, I remarked why just to put the weight back on, no thanks!! I told my Doctor, see I told you so, it happens, so please help me. But that was the last of the weight loss,Ok then in about one month it all was back on, without effort. I tried to talk to my Doctor about it happening, he just again ignored what had happened and only zerowed in on the weight gain and I have to be eating large amounts for that to happen, I reminded him of what he saw with the weight gain, I tell him i don't eat that much, what he hears is I don't eat, I am so cautious about what I eat because i am also diabetic, always over weight, and so on, he gives me a diet of 1500 calories, tells me to stay strictly on that diet, not to mention several things on that diet he had told me NOT TO EAT, I ask him what to eat on that diet, everything was his answer, I expressed I don't move around enough to burn that many calories, he turned a deaf ear as he did with the weight loss and gain. Matter a fact he even ignored the fact I had lost 40 lbs. in 8 days, and he saw, now he acts as if it never happened, actually he acts like since he can't explain what happened, it didn't happen. Dr. Edell I like my Doctor, I fought to get him back after my insurance changed again and don't want to loose him, besides I don't want to go through this with evne one more Doctor, it is to painful to be called a liar again, as has been done directly or by the tongue in cheek look again. I was told to contact you by Paul Robins, because you tend to take on the unusual with open ears. Not in those exact words, but meaning, and you may know of any reserch or treatment for this type of problem, I certianly am not worried about the weight loss, only the weight gain, and a back that won't take much more pressure, and if I can loose enought weight I might be able to have surgery to correct my back problem. Dr. Gupta, Moonish, has been the overseer of surgery for my condition, after another doctor made a mess in surgery, and Dr. Gupta feels he should be able to help me be as close to normal as possiable, a 75% increas in my condition, better than nothing, I am 61 almost 62 and the next words I do not want to hear in the next couple of years is, Ms. Nichols your to old to help now,I want to enjoy my life, not watch it go by, without me. And now to find someone else who has suffered this condition makes me wonder how many others are out there with the same condition, to have only hushed by, It didn't happen that way, you just eat too much, and don't cry out for help because the professional said......... And they are afraid of being sedated from stress of a weight problem, or why complain I won't get help? Well I am one that will complain, and hope I just don't die fat in the process. I need the expert of experts, a bulldog of sorts to narrow this down to get help for all of us out there with this type of problem.
