lifesadream
Member
Saw this on Twitter and lolled at the reply
Saw this on Twitter and lolled at the reply
Her extremely low body weight concerns me. I feel bad for even thinking it but she has so many impressionable, young followers and when I followed her she used to share some pictures of her food and it was always a tiny salad. One night she shared another doctor friend of hers page and the girl very clearly had an eating disorder, I was actually shocked at her pictures and I was even more shocked that she shared her page. I stopped following. She seems like an excellent GP and is very empathetic but the whole eating/weight thing didn't sit well with me. Salad & lots of cardio isn't particularly healthy, occasionally one or two Lindt balls were consumed.
Funnily enough, I know more than a handful of female hospital doctors who have "issues" with eating. Maybe it's a thing.
Funnily enough, I know more than a handful of female hospital doctors who have "issues" with eating. Maybe it's a thing.
brandambassador
VIP Member
Excuse me, we are about to start a cycle with our surrogate in Greece (I’m here in Cork). I have MS, a colostomy bag & had a hysterectomy this year so I can’t carry our second child. We certainly aren’t buying a baby & if you were in the circumstances you’d understand it’s the absolute worst feeling as the intending biological mother not to carry your own child
The day in the life of Dr D.
1. post boomerang of wobbly legs to show people I’m exercising
2. Post photo in scrubs with surprised expression
3. Post an #ad for natural deodorant
4. Post about covid and whatever new symptom she wants to drum home her point about e.g. skin rashes all the rage one day, headaches the next and today babies with colds.
5. Maybe another post an a rowing machine with Taylor swift playing
6. How amazing is cork city in the dark/light/sun shining/rain/snow
7. Snuggled up with a #nude drink
8. Don’t forget to get your smears ladies. Gynae gynae gynae gynae gynae.
9. sleep hygiene. Off to bed.
10.Surgeon’s wife
1. post boomerang of wobbly legs to show people I’m exercising
2. Post photo in scrubs with surprised expression
3. Post an #ad for natural deodorant
4. Post about covid and whatever new symptom she wants to drum home her point about e.g. skin rashes all the rage one day, headaches the next and today babies with colds.
5. Maybe another post an a rowing machine with Taylor swift playing
6. How amazing is cork city in the dark/light/sun shining/rain/snow
7. Snuggled up with a #nude drink
8. Don’t forget to get your smears ladies. Gynae gynae gynae gynae gynae.
9. sleep hygiene. Off to bed.
10.Surgeon’s wife
Carapop
VIP Member
Oh I don’t mind at all. My friends and family are frightened to discuss it with me and we aren’t allowed talk about it in the hospital. I’ll stick my response in a spoiler so I’m not clogging up the page.Thank you for being so honest @Carapop - it's so sad to read of your experience and interesting to hear your perspective. It seems like such a dangerous disease, I hope you're doing well. If it's ok to ask, is it something that you still think about every day? Don't worry if you're sick talking about it here
We'll need to set up a new thread, I'm happy to do it if we have a thread title x
It’s incredibly competitive so it’s easy to see how it would be dangerous to have a group of people in varying stages of recovery (and body sizes) living in close quarters!
I have had some variety of eating disorder since my late teens. I carried some baby weight as a pre-pubescent, was late getting my period etc, then suddenly I stretched out, was almost 6’ tall at 16 and with a figure to admire. I had never believed I had anything of value before. So, from then on, I would struggle with food and body image.
First it was restrict and then binge, I tried every diet under the sun. But that cycle just caused me to gain weight. So then it was restrict, binge and purge. That was more calculated and controlled. But I really hated the purging. So for the last 15years it’s been pure restriction.
I managed it without causing too much concern for years and years. Doctors would admire my figure. I measured and weighed and counted every calorie. I ate between 1400-1600 calories a day so I figured it was fine. Anorexics don’t eat anything do they? And I did zero exercise.
Then the pandemic happened, I needed emergency intestinal surgery, and I started going on little walks as I built my strength back up. Suddenly it was vitally important that I hit 10k steps a day. I wasn’t weighing myself. I wasn’t aware I was losing weight.
October 2022, my mum died very suddenly. I moved home to be with dad for a while as he’d never taken care of himself before. I didn’t change my eating or exercise but I have a very nervous stomach, and because of the grief, everything I ate just ran right through me. It was frightening. I went to a doctor at home who hadn’t seen me before. He weighed me. The number even surprised me. I had no idea I could get so low. I was shocked but also a little thrilled. It took a few more appointments before the doctor convinced me to allow him to refer me to a consultant psychiatrist in a mental health hospital.
My first admission was 17 weeks long and the consultant spent half of it trying to convince me that I had anorexia. I am fairly well educated and relatively intelligent. I rely on logic and evidence. I’m annoyingly rational. On paper, theoretically, I met every single diagnostic criteria for anorexia. But I could not accept that I had it. I felt like a total imposter and I kept waiting to be found out. I would later find out that this is incredibly common an experience.
Over the next three years, I had four admissions to hospital, totalling 56 weeks. In addition to those inpatient admissions, I have also attended a day patient group, and an intensive outpatient group. At my best, last summer, I was 12 kilos heavier than my lowest weight.
I have since regressed, and lost 5.5 kilos. I don’t do any exercise as I don’t have the energy. Ironically, I have health anxiety so am terrified of being sick, but I knowingly undernourish myself, fully aware that prolonged malnutrition results in the body essentially cannibalising itself. I’ve done irreparable damage to my digestive system, I have the heart of someone 20years older than me, and I have irreversible osteoporosis.
There were a few years when being skinny allowed me wear nice clothes and get attention from men and admiration from other women. But those years didn’t last. I am too controlling and rigid to be in a relationship. I live in soft leggings and sweaters as anything fitted or constrictive makes me obsess over my flesh. My friends have all moved on with their lives, weddings and kids and careers. I’m at a standstill. I can’t tear my attention away from the numbers on the scales.
I fear I’ve ranted and raved a bit here so apologies for going on for so long! I just wanted to give context and background. To show that someone can be very unwell and still eat. They can be entirely naive of how unwell they are. And they can know how serious and dangerous an eating disorder is, and still find it impossible to give up
I have had some variety of eating disorder since my late teens. I carried some baby weight as a pre-pubescent, was late getting my period etc, then suddenly I stretched out, was almost 6’ tall at 16 and with a figure to admire. I had never believed I had anything of value before. So, from then on, I would struggle with food and body image.
First it was restrict and then binge, I tried every diet under the sun. But that cycle just caused me to gain weight. So then it was restrict, binge and purge. That was more calculated and controlled. But I really hated the purging. So for the last 15years it’s been pure restriction.
I managed it without causing too much concern for years and years. Doctors would admire my figure. I measured and weighed and counted every calorie. I ate between 1400-1600 calories a day so I figured it was fine. Anorexics don’t eat anything do they? And I did zero exercise.
Then the pandemic happened, I needed emergency intestinal surgery, and I started going on little walks as I built my strength back up. Suddenly it was vitally important that I hit 10k steps a day. I wasn’t weighing myself. I wasn’t aware I was losing weight.
October 2022, my mum died very suddenly. I moved home to be with dad for a while as he’d never taken care of himself before. I didn’t change my eating or exercise but I have a very nervous stomach, and because of the grief, everything I ate just ran right through me. It was frightening. I went to a doctor at home who hadn’t seen me before. He weighed me. The number even surprised me. I had no idea I could get so low. I was shocked but also a little thrilled. It took a few more appointments before the doctor convinced me to allow him to refer me to a consultant psychiatrist in a mental health hospital.
My first admission was 17 weeks long and the consultant spent half of it trying to convince me that I had anorexia. I am fairly well educated and relatively intelligent. I rely on logic and evidence. I’m annoyingly rational. On paper, theoretically, I met every single diagnostic criteria for anorexia. But I could not accept that I had it. I felt like a total imposter and I kept waiting to be found out. I would later find out that this is incredibly common an experience.
Over the next three years, I had four admissions to hospital, totalling 56 weeks. In addition to those inpatient admissions, I have also attended a day patient group, and an intensive outpatient group. At my best, last summer, I was 12 kilos heavier than my lowest weight.
I have since regressed, and lost 5.5 kilos. I don’t do any exercise as I don’t have the energy. Ironically, I have health anxiety so am terrified of being sick, but I knowingly undernourish myself, fully aware that prolonged malnutrition results in the body essentially cannibalising itself. I’ve done irreparable damage to my digestive system, I have the heart of someone 20years older than me, and I have irreversible osteoporosis.
There were a few years when being skinny allowed me wear nice clothes and get attention from men and admiration from other women. But those years didn’t last. I am too controlling and rigid to be in a relationship. I live in soft leggings and sweaters as anything fitted or constrictive makes me obsess over my flesh. My friends have all moved on with their lives, weddings and kids and careers. I’m at a standstill. I can’t tear my attention away from the numbers on the scales.
I fear I’ve ranted and raved a bit here so apologies for going on for so long! I just wanted to give context and background. To show that someone can be very unwell and still eat. They can be entirely naive of how unwell they are. And they can know how serious and dangerous an eating disorder is, and still find it impossible to give up
That free kitchen post has me so bloody angry. Imagine a surgeon and a doctor, two such highly paid salaries who have the means to do it themselves, accepting freebies like that it is just so tacky and tasteless.
Giving already loaded influencers free stuff has the opposite effect on me than it's supposed to. Completely turns me off brands. Show me an unknown Mary in Termonfeckin getting a brand new free kitchen and being genuinely delighted. That's what I'd love to see.
Giving already loaded influencers free stuff has the opposite effect on me than it's supposed to. Completely turns me off brands. Show me an unknown Mary in Termonfeckin getting a brand new free kitchen and being genuinely delighted. That's what I'd love to see.
@whyamihere
Active member
Didn’t know who this woman was until she popped up on my fyp. As the mother of a teen with an eating disorder I am horrified that this woman is supposedly a GP. If I brought my daughter to a GP to seek help and was met by someone as emaciated as her I would walk straight out. She is glorifying anorexia, saying she cut out sugar for her skin ( yeah right) and that her hair is falling out due to stress. No, stop lying!! She is doing immense harm to herself and her followers. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of all metal illnesses and it’s shocking that a medical professional promotes this dangerous behaviour as a lifestyle choice.
BangAndTheDirtIsGone!
Chatty Member
Another solitary trip / day for Doirz! There was another actual human being in a photo with her tho so that’s an improvement. Another thing that strikes me odd about this whole thing with her is why she thinks she NEEDS to be an instahun? Like between the two of them they’re already well off and own a house. She doesn’t need to be at a brand ambassador event or flog sponcon! Most docs on insta just do it for some enjoyment of sharing info and leave it at that.
The other thing that really bothers me in particular about her is the tunnel vision she really applies to what she posts as a GP in Ireland. GP has been DECIMATED in this country - we have one of the lowest numbers of GPs per 100,000 population and are way below European standards. Our healthcare system is quite literally so damaged it’s dangerous and is also well below EU standards - we’re well over a million now in terms of waiting lists for hospital appointments or procedures. We cannot retain our qualified or trainee docs in any specialty and our consultants took flight after their contracts changed and took a >30% paycut compared with their older peers - thus waiting list issue deteriorated. The pandemic has turned a tidal wave of a problem into a tsunami - the backlog is now impossible to rectify or overcome. We put a healthcare on the brink of shattering on hold for a full year and now the shot is literally hitting the fan. Older GP’s can’t retire as there is no one to take their patients. None can take holidays as there are no locums to cover their time off. We are under resourced in every healthcare capacity - carers - listening to Liveline this week would make you weep - OT’s, Physios, Dieticians, SLTs, paramedic and ambulance staff. Why doesn’t she come on and speak about it. Topics for you Doireann this week:
1. What to do if you have a child who needs psychiatric review or a child psychologist assessment (who can’t pay for one privately) or has an eating disorder - anyone who’s dealt with CAMHS and this service knows it is near impossible to get an appointment and waiting times well over a year mark.
2.Addiction and mental health crises - not mental health that can be improved by good diet, fresh air and a good sleep Doireann - as in actual schizophrenia , psychosis, eating disorders and how under resourced addiction services are. Ireland has one of the highest rates of alcoholism and addiction in Europe as well as suicide in males under 40.
3.The impact of social disadvantage on healthcare - you can tell she doesn’t see many medical card, homeless, direct provision or substance abuse patients. Her posts on sleep, eat enough fish and omega 3, B12, contraception and getting enough exercise outdoors are so PAINFULLY privileged and middle class I’m not even sure she realises it. Try telling a single mum of 2 living in a social flat riddled with damp mould and surviving on welfare that she should sleep more and eat more salmon.
4. What to do if you’re a medical card holder and you can’t register with a GP clinic because all but few of them have stopped taking on new patients (except a few private paying ones) because they are overwhelmed with their patients lists as it is.
5. What to do if you’re a parent of a child with complex developmental disability and your respite, carers hours and educational supports have all been cut?
6. What to do if you’re an adult or elderly person on your own with similar complex care needs who now isn’t getting carer hours or support.
7. Maybe get your head out of the clouds and stop hiding behind the #beagp bollox and be honest about just how broken this system is in which to or worse, be sick. Then again tv stations don’t want someone who’s going to rock the boat and tell the truth doing a segment do they?
The other thing that really bothers me in particular about her is the tunnel vision she really applies to what she posts as a GP in Ireland. GP has been DECIMATED in this country - we have one of the lowest numbers of GPs per 100,000 population and are way below European standards. Our healthcare system is quite literally so damaged it’s dangerous and is also well below EU standards - we’re well over a million now in terms of waiting lists for hospital appointments or procedures. We cannot retain our qualified or trainee docs in any specialty and our consultants took flight after their contracts changed and took a >30% paycut compared with their older peers - thus waiting list issue deteriorated. The pandemic has turned a tidal wave of a problem into a tsunami - the backlog is now impossible to rectify or overcome. We put a healthcare on the brink of shattering on hold for a full year and now the shot is literally hitting the fan. Older GP’s can’t retire as there is no one to take their patients. None can take holidays as there are no locums to cover their time off. We are under resourced in every healthcare capacity - carers - listening to Liveline this week would make you weep - OT’s, Physios, Dieticians, SLTs, paramedic and ambulance staff. Why doesn’t she come on and speak about it. Topics for you Doireann this week:
1. What to do if you have a child who needs psychiatric review or a child psychologist assessment (who can’t pay for one privately) or has an eating disorder - anyone who’s dealt with CAMHS and this service knows it is near impossible to get an appointment and waiting times well over a year mark.
2.Addiction and mental health crises - not mental health that can be improved by good diet, fresh air and a good sleep Doireann - as in actual schizophrenia , psychosis, eating disorders and how under resourced addiction services are. Ireland has one of the highest rates of alcoholism and addiction in Europe as well as suicide in males under 40.
3.The impact of social disadvantage on healthcare - you can tell she doesn’t see many medical card, homeless, direct provision or substance abuse patients. Her posts on sleep, eat enough fish and omega 3, B12, contraception and getting enough exercise outdoors are so PAINFULLY privileged and middle class I’m not even sure she realises it. Try telling a single mum of 2 living in a social flat riddled with damp mould and surviving on welfare that she should sleep more and eat more salmon.
4. What to do if you’re a medical card holder and you can’t register with a GP clinic because all but few of them have stopped taking on new patients (except a few private paying ones) because they are overwhelmed with their patients lists as it is.
5. What to do if you’re a parent of a child with complex developmental disability and your respite, carers hours and educational supports have all been cut?
6. What to do if you’re an adult or elderly person on your own with similar complex care needs who now isn’t getting carer hours or support.
7. Maybe get your head out of the clouds and stop hiding behind the #beagp bollox and be honest about just how broken this system is in which to or worse, be sick. Then again tv stations don’t want someone who’s going to rock the boat and tell the truth doing a segment do they?
nottrollin82
Active member
Very surprised by actually happy to see this thread here!
I was really sick last year and seen her husband multiple times in hospital. Basically told me it was all in my head. A colleague of his called me a drug addict. Hospital staff were horrendous to me as a result. I couldn’t move for 6 months.
6 months later he removed my appendix, and the pain. Problem solved.
Horrendous people, absolutely horrible. Vile. He’s as corrupt as she is. I have zero respect for them, they literally couldn’t give a sh*t.
I’m still not over it. Was really active before it all happened, young, never had any health issues before that. Struggling to get back to the gym and overall trust that I won’t get sick again.
I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I was really sick last year and seen her husband multiple times in hospital. Basically told me it was all in my head. A colleague of his called me a drug addict. Hospital staff were horrendous to me as a result. I couldn’t move for 6 months.
6 months later he removed my appendix, and the pain. Problem solved.
Horrendous people, absolutely horrible. Vile. He’s as corrupt as she is. I have zero respect for them, they literally couldn’t give a sh*t.
I’m still not over it. Was really active before it all happened, young, never had any health issues before that. Struggling to get back to the gym and overall trust that I won’t get sick again.
I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Londoncailín
VIP Member
Considering she wears a ball gown to watch TV, thats probably just her bathroom
BangAndTheDirtIsGone!
Chatty Member
In her ridiculous post about lashing suncream on her face on flights quoting a study on UV radiation on aeroplanes there are a number of people questioning her (very poor and incorrect) interpretation of the study. She gives a very condescending reply with the same quote of the same one line of the study followed by her usual bitchy “have a great day”.
Then an actual PhD Statistician Dr David Grimes replied explaining the results of said study and that the amount of radiation exposure on an aeroplane is negligible - highlighting her poor understanding and misrepresentation of the results. His PhD happened to be in actual UV radiation exposure. She didn’t bother replying to him.
This woman is dangerous. She peddles nonsensical and misinformed bs for her own financial gain.
There is ZERO good scientific or statistical evidence for ingesting collagen supplements - it does ZERO for your skin as it cannot be reproduced at any level of your dermal tissue once it is lost or damaged - no matter how many supplements you were to take.
This is coming from a woman who is unhealthily obsessed with her looks and her face and non-coincidentally avails of every type of facial procedure and Botox and filler she possibly can.
And again - advising supplements to promote their use to profit from her own brand is UNETHICAL. Medical Council should be involved at this stage.
The red light LED masks are also total nonsense and she poses using one all the time.
Seriously - don’t be tempted to part with your money or listen to a word she says. She’s as good as a quack. She’s like a person playing dress up doctor with absolutely no depth or substance or intelligence to back it up.
Then an actual PhD Statistician Dr David Grimes replied explaining the results of said study and that the amount of radiation exposure on an aeroplane is negligible - highlighting her poor understanding and misrepresentation of the results. His PhD happened to be in actual UV radiation exposure. She didn’t bother replying to him.
This woman is dangerous. She peddles nonsensical and misinformed bs for her own financial gain.
There is ZERO good scientific or statistical evidence for ingesting collagen supplements - it does ZERO for your skin as it cannot be reproduced at any level of your dermal tissue once it is lost or damaged - no matter how many supplements you were to take.
This is coming from a woman who is unhealthily obsessed with her looks and her face and non-coincidentally avails of every type of facial procedure and Botox and filler she possibly can.
And again - advising supplements to promote their use to profit from her own brand is UNETHICAL. Medical Council should be involved at this stage.
The red light LED masks are also total nonsense and she poses using one all the time.
Seriously - don’t be tempted to part with your money or listen to a word she says. She’s as good as a quack. She’s like a person playing dress up doctor with absolutely no depth or substance or intelligence to back it up.
MrsBouvier
Chatty Member
She’s clearly reading here if she commented on the bacon this week. Why would you not ask for no bacon if you’re vegetarian? Most veggies I know wouldn’t even want it on their plate.
rantingqueen
Chatty Member
Hahahahaha lads I’m obsessed. That stool needs an account of its own. It moves for every photo.... always lurking 
Once you see it, you just can’t stop noticing it.
Once you see it, you just can’t stop noticing it.Attachments
BangAndTheDirtIsGone!
Chatty Member
I don’t think I’ve ever come across an Insta/ “influencer” that seems to just genuinely have such a vacuous personality and vacant / unappy life. It’s like Groundhog Day with her - up excessively early for unnecessary excessive rowing machine/exercise. Empty, bland house without any belongings or decor or personality. A quick shot of her in scrubs holding some piece of equipment (no doctor has worn a white coat especially GP’s in more than a decade as they harbour germs and bacteria - hospitals banned them years ago) but just to reinforce the image of her being a doctor in case some of us forgot? Her misery of a “lunch” with just lettuce cucumber and an egg made me genuinely feel sad so clearly doesn’t enjoy food or cooking. No personality among the medical repetitive info content - I don’t think I’ve heard her laugh once or seen a genuine smile. At the weekend she’s just on her own again posting same spon con, no friends or meet ups, at the height of it going for a walk with her hub - it must be hard being married to a surgeon who works long hours and nights and weekends on fall while you’re a part time GP / part time TV wannabe. But there’s just something lonely and sad that strikes me about it all.
The wig, contorted poses, contact lenses are also all bizarre , as are the constantly exaggerated reminder of her “cancer surgery” , “I’m a cancer survivor” which she never actually details and seems to have been at a guess a LLETZ procedure or therealikes?! But it’s prob one interesting thing she can say about herself.
The wig, contorted poses, contact lenses are also all bizarre , as are the constantly exaggerated reminder of her “cancer surgery” , “I’m a cancer survivor” which she never actually details and seems to have been at a guess a LLETZ procedure or therealikes?! But it’s prob one interesting thing she can say about herself.
Sparagon/1
Chatty Member
Kittenpanda7
Member
I think it’s more the fact that she heavily implied that people with high BMI are in that position because they eat too many donuts where as in fact overweight and obesity are complex and multifactorial, with genetic, environmental and socioeconomic factors at play. There was also an undertone of ‘if you get covid and you’re overweight, it’s your fault because you ate too many donuts’. It was a disgraceful oversimplification by a medical professional, and it just didn’t need to be said.
xoxogossip_girl
VIP Member
My face when a medical doctor edits their face so much they look like a Victorian ghost child that passed because of smallpox
Influencing is not a job
Well-known member
This is what I think of when I see her 
you put A dress on and drank a cup of tea !!! Stop it !!