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Fasting

NAS71232

 I usually fast for 23.5 hours a day and eat one meal a day within 30 minutes at 2pm that's less than 1.5K calories. Tomorrow I'm planning my first 3 day fast. I walk 12 miles a day. I measure it with my Health app. I don't feel right unless I'm fasting and in a calorific deficit. The 12 mile walk give me an additional 1K calorific deficit. This week I did a 52 hour fast.

My mother wants to seek private autism assessment for me. She said my condition is worsening the older I get.

I can't live with her anymore. It's not fair on her and I don't talk to my relatives (long story). I'm not offensive and friendly. People take advantage of my good nature, I do as she asks, but she is disabled. I'm too neurodivergent to socialise with anyone. I want to stop taking sertraline and move into my own flat. I need to be on my own. I just want to keep my kitten.

Fasting is keeping my head clear, but it makes me very weak. After 36 hours of fasting, I can measure myself on the scale and notice a weight drop every few hours, but it makes me feel cleansed. I've seen people on YouTube fasting for 7 to 14 days. Some do a month on only water.

I'm thin, but have some stomach fat. I have advanced diverticulitis, so that might be why my stomach looks abnormal. I had a colonoscopy and they were shocked during the procedure. She said she had only seen diverticulitis that advanced in 90 year old patients.

I just want to eat fruit and unsweetened soya milk in my 30 minute eating window.

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  • in reply to Dawn

    I'm sorry too. I really feel all of this. It's completely unjust. 

    If you're feeling like you cannot digest things properly, try sticking to the FODMAP list for now until you can get assessed for allergies, as it's a guideline which cuts out all the main allergens with a good amount of nutrition, which is better than nothing. 

    Dawn said:
    You need your GP's action not sympathy on that score. 

    Agreed. Sometimes you just have to bother others enough. 

  • in reply to NAS71232

    No, you need to insist that he does follow it up.  In addition to needing an Autism assessment, which the NHS should be giving you, it sounds like you need a brain scan to check what damage has or has not been done. It doesn't matter whether you are a danger or not, it's seriously debilitating for you.  That in turn could get you medical help to deal with it and potentially the benefits which come with the disability.  It's not good enough to just say "how terrible" and do nothing.  You need your GP's action not sympathy on that score.  On the top of that you need some MH intervention because of the trauma you have been through.  You could well have PTSD or something of that order on the top. If communicating with the GP is hard, write it down, but your situation is screaming out for a whole battery of referrals here: Autism, brain damage, eating disorder and/or serious digestive or food problems and significant trauma.  He also needs to support you to get the social support you need.

    I am so sorry your mother isn't more sympathetic.  She isn't helping matters at all by putting you down. Try not to internalise what she is saying to you.

    Meanwhile, you aren't eating and that needs addressing pronto.

  • in reply to NAS71232

    I think it is debatable whether you are actually endangering yourself by starving yourself. Is there another GP in the practice you can ask to see instead? I don't know how fast you can change GP.

  • in reply to NAS71232

    Hi, I had an old gp who put me on sertraline as he thought I was depressed. It made no difference. He retired and I have  a new young gp. On my first visit to him, I was referred for an autism assessment. It really is worth changing gp’s.

  • in reply to AuTriker

    Thanks for the advice. He probably didn't follow it up as I'm not a danger to anyone so I'm guessing I'm not an issue to him. I'm a nice person, but people take advantage of me all the time.

    I don't have anyone in my life to advise me. I know I'm mentally disabled, but I don't know how to prove it. CAB has rejected me. My GP doubles my sertraline dose if I mention anything out of the ordinary so I can 'return to work'.

    I'll take your advice and change my GP. 

  • in reply to NAS71232

    That is incompetence and negligence! He needs to follow it up or you should go to a different GP who will.