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If you suffered from bulimia for five years could it have made you infertile?
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Bulimia and other disordered eating behaviors can impact sex hormones.
For example, researchers have noticed that when a woman restricts food intake, her weight drops below normal and so does one of women's sex hormones, leutenizing hormone. Leutinizing hormone plays a role in secreting estrogen and progesterone. When a woman's weight returns to what is normal for her body, the sex hormones may or may not return to normal and a woman may experience reproductive disorder. This can be characterized by no periods, for example.
Researchers also report that in the brain, the center for receiving information for fat and carbohydrate intake is passed on to the center that controls sex hormones. One area impacts the other.
In states of disordered eating, a woman may get pregnant but it may be a pregnancy with a lot of risks -- birth defects, miscarriages, gestational Diabetes, premature, low-birth weight babies, still-born babies, and other problems.
To answer the question on could it make you infertile? The answer is that bulimic practices can impact your ability to have healthy children. It is possible to minimize these risks with help. I would recommend getting help to change dietary practices (dietitians who specialize in eating disorders would be a good place to start) and talking to a fertility specialist to determine what can be done.
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Infertility does occur in some eating disorders but it is difficult to say without your Doctor performing the necessary fertility blood tests and possibly a ultrasound scan of your ovaries and reproductive tract.
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Both are deadly, it depends on how long a person suffers. A person with anorexia is in a state of self-starvation and will die due to the effects of starvation. A person with bulimia binges and purges, purging is deadly, people sometimes die on their first purge, others do it for years without dying. It's a gamble. Personally I would say bulimia, though I am NOT dismissing the dangers of anorexia, they both lead to death, but from my experience, bulimia is more dangerous.
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