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Think I found the answer to 'why am I so fat and getting fatter every day when I don't/cant eat much?'
Always felt it was b/c I can't move/exercise b/c of pain and fatigue. This could explain it..........question is? HOW DO I TURN THAT SWITCH OFF?
I've had antibiotics pumped straight into my heart every day for 3 months at a time --TWO TIMES in past 7 years!, along with pill form for years before and after. Geeze, it really is damned if you do, damned if you don't. :-(
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glm1111
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Parasites can cause weight gain/loss. I gained 30 lbs before I started killing parasites and had a mass exodus during the procces. I lost it all and then some. Check out the symptom list at Humaworm.
Gael
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Dogsandcats
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I was so tired I slept for a couple of years....I also did not eat right or exercise. So that was my story - but I have fought weight all my life, for the same reasons!
Anyway, the article presents information that does not surprise me in today's world.
I know you probably have read this, but the last page stresses getting your body moving....wish I had.
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dogs and cats? I did......I bought and used a treadmill, cardioglide, aerobics etc. I actually fainted during a yoga session b/c I was so weak.
And this was when I had gained 10 pounds at first.....also stupidly joined Jenny Craig to lose it b/c I knew I had to control those first 10 or it could go higher.
Trust me...I was 130 pounds of health at 5'10" and now hovering at 200.
When moving makes you crash....I have been told by dh stop crawling on that machine....it's going to kill you.
somedays.....I wish it had. All downhill f/there.
Truth be told, I don't care if I'm fat if I can be healthy. But I am neither. Now, if I can get in shower, it's a good day.
It is the ONLY explanation for me.
Got H-Pylori and couldn't eat anything for three weeks..heaving and bums rush throughout. Only chicken broth and water for 3 weeks.
I lost 2 pounds. WTF?????
so...I don't know.....I just don't know. Posts: 867 | From PA | Registered: Jan 2006
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I am unable to do much exercise but recently lost about 25 lbs changing to a Paleo diet. Gluten, starch and dairy free. You can still lose weight without exercising. What is your diet like?
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GretaM
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HWW-i feel it is the TBD's messing with our hormones.
I was at 200 also, when neuro lyme was at its worst.
Same thing before lyme dx, but with lyme. Playing sports 5 days a week, super fit-gained 30 pounds in a year. Kept gaining even though no appetite ate less and healthier than anyone I knew. Very frustrating.
Finally found the right combo of abx for me, been getting better cognitive function. Bits each day. Also losing weight.
I feel they are related.
Is your TBD treatment working?
I feel that is the key, at least for me.
Anyways, I completely understand where you are at. It is a terrible place to be feeling sick, but to also be feeling unhealthy weight-wise.
I am still quite overweight for my height now, and it bugs me because I think "is that pain from lyme, or from being heavy?".
And also if I limp from lyme, sometimes I wonder if people think I am lumbering from being heavy etc.
It's lose lose situation.
But the right abx combo has helped me.
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I am unable to do much exercise but recently lost about 25 lbs changing to a Paleo diet. Gluten, starch and dairy free. You can still lose weight without exercising. What is your diet like?
- True for me. I haven't exercised in two years due to bad feet.
(didn't lose 25, but have in the past with basically the same diet)
As for the article, it makes me wonder if certain abx are worse for weight gain than others. I remember taking amoxicillin when I was first diagnosed and I gained weight right away. I knew it was the amoxi and I felt all swollen. I did not stay on it very long.
They do mention penicillin in the article.
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Razzle
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Lyme messes with the thyroid. Low thyroid = weight gain, and impossible time losing the weight.
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Oh yes! Early on it caused a goiter where I had 1/2 removed. Still on thryoid meds. Numbers are always tested and come back "within normal".
Interestingly enough, a year before that, I had to have one ovary and 1/2 of the other removed b/c of huge cystic issue.
I truly believe it's where lyme really started destroying my body, by going to glands first. Then the body, then the brain.
God I'm amazed at what I've gone through and no doc put it together.
All of of us could write a pretty big book of reality, couldn't we?
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lpkayak
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but if it is abx its not what we take ourselves right its what they feed the animals we eat?
sorry. im really thinking slow today.
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GretaM
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Yes we sure could.
It'd be many volumes.
Lyme destroys systems. Sometimes "stalls" my systems for a year, then other years, the same systems are fine...argh.
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