Anorexia and terminal illness

[mkjuk]

is the incidence of cancer, MS etc higher in anorexics and former anorexics?

[beryllium]

I personally have never been anorexic but do have M.S. Thet don't really know what causes these diseases do they? be it genetic, or through having had viruses or simply just is......
You could ask on here......
http://www.mswebpals.org/
why do you ask anyway?..... :-)

[Eve]

I've been anorexic and have been seeing a neurologist for a long while now, it looked like I may have had MS for a long while but the diagnosis seems to have settled as menieres disease at the mo (the onset can be very similar).

Not had cancer but had a tumour removed and have had a number of suspicious lumps, a biopsy etc...

Maybe it's connected to damage to your immune system, I ended up with a number of quite serious illnesses some of which more than likely connected to my eating problems such as pnumonia, meningitis scare (brain was swollen), kidney problems (was warned they could fail if i carried on) etc...

[Eve]

I think i got all the weak genes haha, my brother is never ever ill, he doesn't even get colds!!!

Saying that though, the things my body went through with the eating disorder laid it low to illness as it didn't have as much strength to fight things off and have never had a great immune system.

Let me be a warning to anyone who even thinks of going down that route. It's not all cos of that but i'm sure it hasn't helps.

[Eve]

Oh and i have a genetic thingy I guess for menieres/neurological problems cos my mum has it too.

I think genetics do play a big part though as we have a lot of quite serious illnesses in the family from cancer to epilepsy, Addisons disease (endocrine disorder) and mental handicap.