Anyone feel not as sick when they dont eat?

After I eat even healthy food I feel worse. (Dizzier, more exhausted) anyone else feel this way?

I tend to just feel sick, to the point I cannot eat sometimes...

Yes, especially when eating any sugars, breads and processed foods. It felt like my energy was being drained within only half hour or so of eating and my mental functioning would just want to shut down.
It really takes the comfort out of comfort foods. Not fair

I wondered if it had to do with my endocrine system. I think the tbd's really mess with our hormones and throw them all out of balance.

One other "eating" related issue I faced which is very possibly Lyme and co-infection related as I never had the problem before the tbd's, is a sensitivity to sugar. If I ate anything sweet (except honey) I would get acid reflux within a very short time. Following would often be a asthma attack. Since I have researched acid reflux and asthma and there have been studies of the two being connected but I have yet to find a study which also links the two to tick-borne diseases.

These health quirks went away while on treatment but often returned after a few weeks if I stopped treatment. I have read time after time that Lyme bacteria loves sugar so I can only guess they were having a party every time I had cake or cookies but it was no party for me. I was forced to be very mindful of what I ate.

I have the same issue. I can get more done in the mornings before breakfast. After I eat I feel tired, stale
and the thought of doing much at all is just too exhausting.
My naturopath says it is leaky gut syndrome - apparently the gut has tiny junctions in it, with the digestive issues lyme often causes they start to open up and causes your bowel contents to move into the blood stream. This creates more work for the liver and over all more stress on the body.
The first step he says is to get foods out of your diet your might be sensitive to because they create issues in the bowel and inflammation. Doing this was hard in the end I opted for a Paleo diet and I felt immediately better. In a matter of days. Some foods are just too heavy on my system these days.
He has given me products to get rid of candida and recommends probiotics.
He has given me a product designed to heal the gut walls - it has licorice root, L glutamine, and aloe vera in it.
So far there has been improvements but it was slow it took a bit of experimentation to figure out what foods were working for me. Often they are foods you eat every day and enjoy. For me it was hard to give up rice and other grains but in the end it was a good decision and I wouldn't go back.
In the last couple of weeks I have been taking collagen supplements and making my own bone broth and I feel thats helping. Maybe a little too early to tell. But it is a very popular option for healing leaky gut syndrome.

Thanks Girlie
I have a LLND here in Austrlia

Has anyone here tried intermittent fasting? I've done it for years, and it makes mornings so much smoother and more enjoyable. I don't do it while on meds, though.

I've struggled with eating for much of my life. The thing is, we do have to be very, very careful if we have low functioning adrenals - that's not the time to be fasting, even for half a day. The adrenals need the nutrition.

For me, it has had to do with a complete lack of appetite (seriously - zero hunger pains ever), possibly stemming from the following: low stomach acid, eating foods I'm allergic to (and didn't know it - soy and MSG), intestinal cramping, slow motility and lack of enzymes in the small intestine - to name a few things that I have figured out.

I do have times still where I just can't force food down my throat one more time - I reached that point just last night. This morning was a real struggle to get food down as well - but I did manage to do it. We'll see how I do tonight. LOL.

Also, remember, if we are fasting, we are not giving our bodies the nutrients it needs to heal - and while short fasts may be helpful here and there, frequent or daily fasts are not usually helpful for anyone fighting infections.

I'm on the GAPS diet (no grains or starches), and I still don't feel like eating a lot of times, because I know I'll feel sicker after I eat. I just can't eat breakfast- sometimes I don't even want to eat lunch. But sometimes I'll feel hungry all of a sudden and eat a lot at once. Sometimes I just feel too tired to eat. Lyme is so weird.