I went private and I didn't see one, they ask you to fill out forms n answer questions, did u get any treatment in ir 20s for it or anything on ya medical records as they check these xxx
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ive not had a consultation yet, i think i'll probably be going private, I dont know if they will ask but it was a very long time ago, do you have to see a psychiatrist when you go private?
Hi Caren i was NHS and never had a psych assessment. However if it comes up i would tell them, i'm sure your not the first to have suffered this and gone for surgery. Lets face it we all have or have had unhealthy relationships with food or we wouldn't have needed or need the surgery. I'm sure its fine and as someone else said its not a current problem xx.
frodoald said:Sorry - when I said well in your past I didn't mean to suggest your twenties were a long time ago !
Josiegirl said:I am going private and and also went private in November 2009 when I got the gastric band. Neither time have I had to go for any phsyciatric evaluation. The medical questionnaire was all about diseases and illnesses such as did I suffer from diabetes yes/no and did I smoke yes/no blah blah blah.
Just wondering though why having bulimic episodes way back in the past would be so important? I have had an eating disorder for the whole of my life - I have overeaten for so long that I can never remember what it feels like to be either hungry or full. I have eaten a full meal and undone my belt so as to fit in a pudding in the past. If that is not an eating disorder then I,ll eat my hat (Sorry for the pun). What is so different about making yourself sick to going on endless diets that always fail? There is something rather masochistic about putting oneself on the Cabbage Soup Diet and I know for a fact that my doctor putting me on an appetite supressent years ago called Tenuate Dozpan was as dangerous as it gets. I had dreadful migraines and once collapsed in the street after not being able to see for all the purple and yellow flashing lights all around my eyes. Shortly after that I learned that Tenuate Dozpan had been put on the Dangerous Drugs List! Thank God I stopped them despite my doctor insisting that they were perfectly safe.
There is no way I would tell a phychiatrist any of that so wondering why you should have to. It is all in the past and not relevent imho.
Chin up sweetheart, in the great big scheme of things I bet it won't matter one jot