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Old 09-11-2009, 05:31 PM  
kane
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Not eating right can screw you up bad

A friend of mine has a 15 year old daughter. She is one of those girls that is about 5'4" tall and weighs about 95 lbs and she sometimes thinks she is fat, but she plays basketball and so she said she wants to stay in shape. Last week she was walking through the living room when she suddenly just blacked out and feinted. She came around when she hit the floor and said she felt strange and her leg felt heavy. They call 911 and end up getting her to the hospital.

After many tests and a cat scan and all kinds of stuff they find nothing. The doctor talks to her about some other things and they find out that she is bulimic. She doesn't vomit after she eats, but she will have days where she binges and eats a lot (or in many cases just a normal amount) then she will feel fat and guilty so she will eat almost nothing for the next three or four days. It screwed with her enough that it caused her to have a mild seizure which caused her to black out.

Everyone is happy it isn't something terrible like a tumor, but still pretty crazy when it is someone you know and didn't think had that kind of problem.
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