Eating Disorder - Stomach pain.

[Buttons.]

Ok so basically over the last few weeks I have been significantly upping my food intake from very restrictive to reasonably normal but after eating and sometimes just between meals I keep getting horrendous stomach pain, which I'm guessing has something to do with eating normally again? Basically wondered if anyone has any guesses as to why this is happening and also is there anything I can do if it is ED and eating more than I'm used to related to make it hurt less.

[Cryptic.]

It's most likely your stomach getting used to eating again and digesting more than it is used to, your stomach has probably shrunk from how little you have been eating.

You should gradually raise your food intake so your body gets used to eating again.

[Bellatrix]

^ That's a good idea.

You can also try digestive aids (natural ones like peppermint leaves in smoothies and peppermint tea). Yogurt's helpful too - activia do a good one that's not scary at all, and really yummy.

[Animad]

As said above though the yoghurts/ pro-biotics may not help too much in this instance.

Really the main thing is likely to be that your body isn't used to coping with that amount of food and the best thing to cope with that for now is to eat the same amount in a day as you are now but in smaller portions so you're eating more meals but often so it's more like having lots of snacks rather than a couple of main meals. Over time you can then slowly increase the amount you're taking in in one sitting and reduce the number of meals you have at the same rate so you're always sticking to the same amount in a day but make it become less frequently again.

Hopefully this will not only help to ease your pains but it is likely to keep your energy levels more stable which may be all over the place seen as you're recovering from an ED and so your body is likely to be using up/ storing as much energy as it can ASAP and so meaning in between times it dips.

[Buttons.]

Thanks for the advice, much appreciated.