please help me, I'm starving to death

What are you eating? My daughter deals with the severe stomach pain too and fluctuates in weight...

I am struggling to eat because of the pain and no appetite.  I am forcing myself to eat though.  I drink reliv shakes (made for cancer patients), green juice veggies 2 xs a day with green vibrance.  I add hemp seed and ground flax for nutrition.   I just implemented cutting out grains because of wanting to not feed the yeast.

I eat goat cheese, drink almond milk, eat chicken and a lot vegetables.

i'm going to add back in some oatmeal to try and gain some weight. 

I've been tested for h pylori and it was negative.  I know I have a candida overgrowth. 

I started the coconut oil 2 days ago and it causes a lot of pain but trying to stick with it to heal my small intenstine.

Has your daughter been tested for h pylori or candida?

I feel like my body does not absorb nutrients.  Although my bowels are normal, no diarhea or anything.  Weight loss was one of my first symptoms and just wonder if the lyme is living in my gut as well...

Thanks Traveler. Nuts are something I used to eat a lot of but then ran out and with my lack of appetite have totally forgot about them.

I also take a lot of binders so I'm wondering if those are taking away my nutrients. Right now I'm only taking pectasol and charcoal and I usually won't take it until 2 hours or more after I've eaten.

Taking those binders 2 hours after and 2 hours before any meds or foods should prevent the absorption of nutrients - at least that's what I've been reading. So you should be safe on that.

Avocados, quinoa, nuts (& nut butters), olive oil, mangoes are all high in nutrition and in calories (www.aarp.org/food/diet-nutrition/info-05-2013/healthy-high-calorie-foods.html#slide1)

So including them in your diet should help. Although bananas are also mentioned, they also increase inflammation, and since Lyme is an inflammatory disease, it's not smart (IMO) to eat foods that are known to increase inflammation, but some people eat them without any issues. It could be something to try (watch to see if it affects you for a couple of days after eating just one banana).

It's hard to think of all of these things on your own, especially when we are sick or a bit frightened of what our bodies are doing, that's why I love forums...and especially this one! We can come here to exchange ideas, which helps us to be smarter in fighting these diseases!

I still eat oatmeal every morning, even though it's probably high in calories, it's medicinal for me. I add in honey (for pollen type allergies), flax (Omega 3 & 6 plus fiber), cinnamon (to help with insulin resistance & more) and coconut oil (for all of it's goodness!). A splash of raw goat's milk and it's about the healthiest meal of the day for me!

Jewelle-Noelle, so sorry for you to see your daughter suffer so. It is hard to see our children go through this horrible disease and I can only imagine. I will keep you and your daughter in my prayers <3

I add Symbiotics Colostrum Plus Powder to a my smoothie each day, it has helped me SO MUCH. I had severe gut pain and horrible poos and trouble with low weight till I started using this. I do two scoops per day now and will continue till I get well from lyme. I am NOT associated with this company.
A container last me about a year.
Here is one I buy.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BREOR2/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Post Edited By Moderator (Traveler) : 9/5/2013 3:58:01 PM (GMT-6)

Oh darling. I'm so sorry you are going through this. I too feel the starve. I weigh 108 right now and I totally get what you mean by feeling like you just can't get the nutrition out of your foods.
Stick with the green veggies. It took time for my body to finally feel the energy from blending up veggies. But it works if you do it everyday. This is key too-don't juice them, blend them. Juicing leaves out important fiber that your digestive system needs. Also, blending your food can help a lot to ease GI pain.
Avocados are a terrific source of fat and nutrients. They have more potassium than a banana. Coconut oil is the most easily absorbable fat for the brain so it is great for neurological challenges. But I think fresh coconut meat and juice is the best.
Nuts and seeds get me a lot of nutrition. Soak them. It makes it easier for your stomach to digest them and makes the nutrients more available.
Try to drink a lot of juice and nut milks so that you are getting lots of liquid calories.
If you eat meat or can tolerate it, ghee can be a good source of animal fat and it doesn't have the health risks of butter. Also bone marrow is great if you can eat it.
Add chia seed, hemp seed, flax seed and bee pollen to your smoothies!
Take care of yourself and remember how strong you are!

Tahnk you Traveler

I also cook a chicken or do bone and marrow broths similar to GAPS diet for lunches. I typically throw an entire chicken in the crock pot with salt, spices. let it cook overnight. In the morning I pick out all the meat and throw the nasty skin, junk and bones back in a now empty crock pot (meat and broth get stored in the fridge). Then I add a cup of vinegar (dissolves the minerals in the bones), water and more spices. When I get home I remove that broth, clean out the crockpot and add back in Celery, carrots, and onions and the bone broth. Before I go to bed I combine everything and divy it out into about 5 containers. Its lunch for 5 days. It has really been healing my gut I believe. It is full of easily digestable food as most of it is in the broth. It also has a ton of fat. Ther studies on this are inconclusive some say the fat is good for you others say its bad. I say when your 90lbs any way you can get weight on you is good. I can't honestly say I gained weight doing this but I will say that it kept me at a steady weight and not losing.

I would suggest others having trouble keeping weight on to look into it.