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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Body image symptoms. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: the anorexic patient is often overweight during her younger childhood years and may have been teased for being so.
Why: the anorexic patient may be dependent, immature, perfectionist, afraid of growing up.
Why: there are often problematic family interpersonal relationships which need exploration in both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
Why: e.g. parent's marriage break-up - maintaining factors are sometimes very important in prolonging what might otherwise have been a brief episode of dieting.
Why: depression, anxiety and eating disorders can run in families.
Why: e.g. refusal to maintain normal body weight, loss of more than 25% of original body weight, intense fear of becoming fat, preoccupation with calorie counting, avoidance of all carbohydrate, fainting.
Why: e.g. recurrent episodes of binge eating; preoccupation with food and weight changes; consumption of high calorie, easily digested food during the binge; termination of the binge by abdominal pain, sleep or vomiting; inconspicuous eating during a binge; repeated attempts to lose weight by frequent vomiting, fasting or use of laxatives or diuretics; frequent fluctuations of more than 4.5kg; awareness of abnormal eating pattern and fear of not being able to stop voluntarily; depressed mood after binge. May have a previous history of anorexia nervosa.
Why: due to weight loss. Anorexia nervosa associated with lack of menstrual periods. Bulimia associated with irregular menstrual periods or rarely lack of menstrual periods.
Why: due to depression or hormonal disturbance as a result of weight loss.
Why: may be associated with either anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
Why: may be associated with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
Why: e.g. diabetes, hyperthyroidism, inflammatory bowel disease.
The following list of conditions have 'Body image symptoms' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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