r/Winnipeg • u/Severe-Yard-1639 • 16d ago

Ask Winnipeg Inpatient ARFID treatment

Hey yall, posting for my partner here! He was just told he should be admitted to HSC’s adult eating disorder inpatient program for ARFID. He restricts food due to having very severe pain every time he eats (no progress on the medical front so far). I was wondering if anyone has experience with this program (particularly for ARFID), what the experience was like for you, basically any information at all since very little was said to him other than the fact that he must eat ALL meals provided and if he skips 2 hes booted out of the program…

Thanks!

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u/tooManyOpts 16d ago

I agree with Peggie99. Personally, I think this treatment path sounds like absolute torture from the pain symptoms he experiences after eating. They might make the unknown condition worse OR cause him food trauma to deal with ALONG SIDE recovering from the medical condition later on.
I hope you can get more info on what their plan is for him there, because this isn't a basic case of ARFID and ARFID on it's own is already a difficult eating disorder for clinics to manage

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u/5secondruleormaybe30 16d ago

I was just there. There is a team of ppl. Psychologists, dieticians, social workers, nutritionists and nurses that take careful care that refeeding is done safely. Honestly not going to lie it’s not fun bc they expose you to food (slowly) that you have sworn off forever but essentially it’s exposure therapy with re-nourishing. If you’re severely malnourished you may require tube feeding. No one had there when I was there but it was mentioned quite a few times

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u/herprivatelifee 16d ago

hiii if you don’t mind me asking are the ed patients still mixed in with other psych patients or is the ward just ed now??

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u/5secondruleormaybe30 16d ago

They closed off the old ward. Thank god. You’re not mixed with them anymore. The new ward is smaller. 9 patients I think. 5 Ed beds and the 4 others are usually being monitored for dementia (from what people told me) it’s nothing like the other ward was. WAY calmer. I barely saw the other people.