I need a few opinions

Okay last year around this time I weighed about 183-85 pounds. I now weigh about 155. I don't do any exercising or sports or any physical activity. I have worked out off and on the past year but that was only the months of August and March. I am wondering how I lost so much weight without doing anything. I have been dieting the past year (reduced calorie diet). I have also noticed that I started to lose most of my weight in February when I first met my girlfriend, I did (used to) feel super self-conscious about my weight and I felt that I needed to lose some. But I didn't work out or run or do anything.

Now I can barely keep down a full meal and its starting to scare me. I want to eat but I get full too fast and only end up eating half of what everyone else eats and I lost about 5 pounds in the last 2-3 weeks. Last night I went to an awards ceremony for my girlfriend (she sings at her school's arts program) and we went to a fancy restaurant called Texas de Brazil which is all you can eat meat and salad (very good by the way). After I ate (which wasnt much compared to other people) I started to feel sick and I threw it up in the bathroom. About an hour later I had a massive stomach ache and it felt like my stomach was constricted to the size of my fist. What a waste of 38 bucks.


I'm wondering what the hells wrong with me and if I should seek professional help. If so, who should I see to help? My girlfriend's dad is an MD but I'm wondering if I should skip him and go to a specialist...


/INB4 clingy, leave your girlfriend, insecure... ect.

ALSO: I'm about 5'11"-6'0" tall.

Another thing. In the beginning of March I started to retake my acne medication after a month of not taking it, and about 3 days later I severely lost my appetite and I only ate a bite of food and I was full. We discovered that loss of appetite was a side effect of the antibiotic and I stopped taking it. I wonder if the effect of that drug is still affecting me?


Edited by Rofl_Mao - 21 May 2010 at 2:26pm

I probably did overeat but it's the rapid weight loss that i'm concerned about.

Tape worm.  Probably making its way  up to your brain by now.  

Rofl I went through a really similar thing, I could barely eat anything without feeling full/sick and I was already retardedly skinny as it was. My advice, work gradually. Get your eating habits back into a healthy level, but if you try and rush it, you're just going to make things worse.

^^^ What Tallen said.  I had a troop that suffered a 45 lb weight loss over about 8 months.  A junior NCO let me know about it* and I ordered the troop to the clinic.  I don't remember what they diagnosed exactly, but it was serious and required surgery fairly soon thereafter.

*I was fairly new to the section and was unaware of the magnitude of the weight loss.

tallen702 wrote: There are a lot of G.I. issues which can present asymptomatically. 10% of appendicitis cases don't present pain, swelling, or other symptoms until the appendix bursts and you wind up with the symptoms of sepsis which is far more serious. See a doctor. Don't try to diagnose yourself. It could be nothing, but more than likely, it's something big and really bad for you.

Better safe than sorry. You're still on your dad's engineer and canada insurance so get to the doc and get it looked at. I had a ruptured spleen due to a similar (but more whorish (high five) issue).

Docs are needed. You may be put on restriction but who cares. Just get better and well.

He is an enemy combatant and should be tried by a military tribunal.  

I think I am going to get a GE specialist. Thanks for your thoughts!

Now im really starting to get worried..... like my mom has tried calling the doctor today and she couldn't get through but thats not why im worried, cause we can just try again tomorrow. but i looked at some causes on the internet and they don't look good and now im way discouraged/

tallen702 wrote: Wow, this thread is full of bad advice. If you have insurance that allows you to skip a PCP and go straight to a specialist, schedule an appointment with a board certified gastroenterologist. This could be the symptoms of something serious including chronic appendicitis, chronic gastritis, parasitic infection, or a similar serious and potentially fatal affliction. If you can't get right in with a GE. Specialist, you need to go see your PCP (primary care provider) who should either be a general practitioner or internal medicine MD. Do not wait. Do it now.

All I read was PCP.