Can Lyme cause weight gain

In a 6 week period I gained 60 lbs. and another 40 lbs. 8 weeks later. Every doctor I saw said I was probably eating 8,000 calories a day. I told them that was not possible because I was constantly throwing up or barely able to eating at all. When I finally found the doctor that saved my life he told me Lyme has a way of hiding from antibiotics by burrowing into ones fat, in-turn storing your fat. It is also very difficult to move around and really hard to loose the wight while on so may meds. Can anyone relate? I am 29, sick since age 9, diagnosed with Lyme, December 2011. Thanks Moxie84

Thanks BG. I am taking the probiotics!

I gained about 20 over the 15 yrs I had it. Finally after 15 yrs I started having a high TSH, and was also told I had hashimoto thyroid which I believe Lyme causes. I did Dr. mark hyman ultra simple diet this summer and lost 10 pounds and it cleared the brain fog, then I eliminated wheat and I eat coconut oil by the teaspoons and it has helped knock 10 more pounds off me.

I also went into menopause at 40, now I'm 52, so I thought that made me gain weight also.

Hang in there, you will get rid of it.

One thing is I have always been active and when Lyme got me down and I couldn't and didn't feel like it, I pushed myself to exercise a little.

GotMoxie

If you want you can throw the extra weight this way! haha. Mine has been the opposite as I have lost weight and wasn't heavy to begin with. Seems it can be either or for people. You will likely come down with an altered Lyme type diet as it cuts out a lot of calories. Very difficult to keep weight on following the no gluten, no sugar, no lactose diet. Anyways hang in there!

LC