I just started treatment about 4 weeks ago or so, and I am gaining weight like crazy. Has this happened to anyone else? I exercise, eat right and use my sauna and I just keep gaining weight. I had my thyroid checked and it was fine. Any help for me?
Thanks, Sherrie
Posted by mixxster (Member # 22765) on :
What drugs are you taking?
It could be a side effect. I've had this problem particularly when I was on antipsychotics.
Are you taking pro-biotics with antibiotics?
Posted by Wonko (Member # 18318) on :
I've had a very difficult time with trying to maintain my weight during treatment. Some lose weight without trying, but I have the opposite problem.
I eat a healthy diet, exercise everyday that I can, yet put on weight as soon as I let down my guard. Prior to treatment, I was successfully losing weight at a slow but steady pace. I've been stuck now for about a year!
My thyroid numbers verge towards high TSH (which means hypothyroid), but are never so high as to mandate treatment. My doctor thinks that my inability to lose weight is Lyme-related. I think it is frustrating!
Posted by lymewreck36 (Member # 4395) on :
Hello folks! I have also experienced this. I don't eat the hoards of food I see people my size eat. Lots of days I only eat what my children eat, slim as they are.
But it doesn't matter. And when I change my medications, antibiotics/babesia meds, I see an immediate change in weight.
Meds are definitely a big part of it.
I can be alive and fat, or a thin dead person!@!!
Mary
Posted by bschao (Member # 22371) on :
Thank you all so much for your replies. I've never had this gaining weight problem before and it's very frustrating to me.
Mixxster..the current medications I take are: Aciphex Pexeva (kind of paxil) Clonozapam Percocet MSIR (morphine sulphate) Azithromyacin Vitamin D3 Probiotic Multi-Vitamin Fish Oil
See anything on that list or a combination that could be my problem. The weight gain really just started about 6 weeks ago when I started the antibiotic, probiotic, and vitamin d3.
Thanks so much for all of the help! Sherrie
Posted by joalo (Member # 12752) on :
Clonazapam can cause weight gain.
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
Plus, paxil and pexeva can cause weight gain. It is common with paxil.
Posted by Pinelady (Member # 18524) on :
You are not alone. My doc told me I was doing ok
when I told him how alarmed I was. I used to be a
here kitty kitty. Now since I started treatment I
am a here piggy piggy. But I am hungrier now than I