That used to happen to me too. Make sure to drink gatorade after you purge- your electrolytes are probably out of whack.

Hiya!
Its def your potassium/electrolite balance. When you purge (either vomit, or laxatives) you purge your body of the electrolites and potassium, and your heart needs those to function. Drinking gatoraid will only do so much...Its a really dangerous game purging, heart attacks and choking are scarily common.
I'm also 20, and been suffering since I was 13/14 from an eating disorder...And i'm finally making good steps from recovering, so if you ever want to talk or whatever...Pm me

<3 luisa xx

This is happening too.
Last night, I felt asleep early and my mom called me a little later to give some tasks for today. I noticed that my heart started beating faster, but I had not been sleeping that tight that I could have got scared when my mom called be! :s what can I improve?

well having salts and electrolites will help, ultimatly not purging at all would be optimal, but knowing the nature of the disease that will be a slower process. Keep strong honey bee

luisa xx

Electrolites?
Some friends of mine scared me some days ago, when they realised I was having sympthoms of a brain accident..
I vomited last friday, but I don't intend to repeat it. I'm not proud... I want to feel good...

First of all u need to take care of being bulimic. I think then your heartrate would return to normal. Forcing yourself to purge is not a good thing. You must realize what it can do to u besides keep u thin. Wake up and smell the coffee...Before its to late

that would be nice if someone could just wake up and "take care of being bulimic" but i'm afraid, its not that simple. Eating disorders arn't a choice, they're a mental condition, a disease. And as much as people know what they are doing to them selves, it doesn't over ride the "need" to do it. You need help, support, treatment etc to try and recover. I mean, you wouldn't say to someone who has epilepcy to try and not have it in a day or so.

i'm sorry for telling you this, but you're giving no news at all for us. How much do you know about eds, may I ask? What you said is understandable, ok, but it's not that doable, do you know that? You can't just throw your brain away and buy a new one so that you would start thinking differently and doing things differently. Furthermore, many of us may not me bulimic and still have an ed, one of the eating disorders nos (not otherwise specified), which are as complicated as bulimia or anorexia.

hello out there..
I have been binging and purging since march of this year, most recently it's been everday at least 3 times a day also. I don't feel healthy and have been seeing a therapist and scheduled to see a phyciatrist as well. And with all this said and done, I cannot get the thoughts and feelings of binging and purging out of my head - it has taken over me and is uncontrollable . Please, if any of you have an answer on how to stop and what the long term effects are please tell me. I dont know how to stop the cycle of this horrible desease.

Hi, saara.
You really must stop binging and purging, I guess that is the first thing to change... :\ it's not easy, I know it for myself, but at least try. And them work your thoughts...

Thank you - v00d00cita.
Are you still binging and purging?
If not - what was it that made you stop - how did you do it?

I didn't do it for a long time, months. I just commited myself no to doing it and it was all.
I had some setbacks these last weeks, but i'm stopping again. Just think like this: eating certain things or overeating makes you feel bad (you feel bad one time). Vomiting makes you feel bad again (makes you feel bad two times). Why feeling bad two times?

I am also bulemic and have experienced that, I went to the doctor and I have to go see a heart doctor to see if I have a heart murmor, but my heart also hurts from time to time and I dont want to tell my parents to freak them out, good luck and I hope you get better