Help Needed

My weight changes just by getting in the shower. It can go up or down and can range from 0.2 lbs to 1.8 lbs. Does this happen to you? I know no one is weighing before and after getting in the shower, but could you do it and see if your weight changes? Your total weight doesn't matter, just the change. The showers need to be in the morning before any fluids or meals. I have an idea why this is happening to me and want to see if I am just different.

Hi GH

Would you please share with us what your theory would be? I'm curious. It could open up a discussion instead of keeping people wondering why/how?
I know you posted about this before, but I doubt that without explanation you will get far.
I was just about to shower and thought why not. 2,8kg (6,17lbs) more after the shower. Dried skin, moist hair (I have very thin hair).

Since my body building days of the past, I've used weight as one of pieces of the puzzle to determine what is going on physiologically. It's a tool. Out of habit, I have weighed daily for years and I really don't care about how much I weigh. During this time, I have gotten very good at determining what I will weigh before I get on the scale. It depends on what I've eaten, what I've done, etc. I have gotten very good at it. For some reason over a year ago, I weighed again after I got out of the shower. The weight was different. So I started weighing both before and after my shower every morning. It always fluctuated. Over time, I once again became good at determining the weight change depending on what I had eaten and done the previous day. The most fluctuation I had ever had was 0.75 lbs. Then I supplemented with copper. I gained 1.5 lbs in one day but the fluctuation was about the same. I gained another 1.5 lbs the next day with the same change in weight. Copper put 3.0 lbs of inflammation on me in two days. I took it as a sign my immune system started up again. After a couple of weeks of copper, I had to stop supplementing because my ganglion cysts were back in full force. I hadn't had issues with them in 15 years. I guess the copper increased my immune system so that it could get at the protozoans living in my synovial lining.

After several months, I got to thinking. Knowing that lithium is almost the same size as sodium and can bind the sodium receptor, maybe it was the reason for the weight fluctuation. I started taking one 5mg lithium orotate daily. I had been back to guessing my weight change very accurately but when I took lithium, the weight fluctuation stopped. I weighed exactly the same getting into the shower as I did getting out of the shower. It was consistent. I stopped taking lithium for over a month and my weight change after the shower came back. I started lithium again and the change went away. The lithium did help my sleep, mood, attitude, and I can feel my ganglion cysts so it is doing something to help my immune system. Perhaps we can use our weight fluctuation before and after a shower to determine if we are deficient of lithium? It seems to work with me, maybe it will for others.

Post Edited (Georgia Hunter) : 7/16/2015 7:28:05 AM (GMT-6)

Hi GH,

I remember when you posted about this before. I'm not sure why it isn't sparking more interest. Maybe we don't understand the impact of a lithium deficiency?

Personally, my weight was the same from 17-34 years old. It just maintained itself with a good diet and running a few miles a few days a week, plus light weights once or twice a week at the gym. Then, one year for my birthday, threw caution to the wind for a whole month to celebrate "aging backwards" hahahaha--ate and drank whatever I wanted, didn't exercise as frequently. I gained 10 pounds--a shock!!!

When the Lyme started acting up that year it was hard to lose the weight but I did over the course f a year. Since then my Lyme symptoms became much worse & my weight would fluctuate 3-8 pounds in a single day. I know lots of people on here post that they've gained or lost a lot of weight with Lyme. Maybe people aren't responding because their weight is so drastically different or unpredictable now with Lyme? I will try to help you out--if I can remember to do the weighing before and after. ;-)

Hi Mister Mike, you know its so funny because when I typed the reply I swear I was thinking how coffee is my morning 'get-up' but I know that some people have their morning showers for that reason! Great minds think alike!!

Ive just never been a morning person though! I bet you are a morning person huh....despite your 3am troubles that is :-/ ;-)

I admire morning people lol...wish I could be one!


-Courtney