Weight is staying down since surgeries(which is good)

I was way too heavy from prednisone before surgery, but yes, I'm smaller since, and I don't really put on weight like I used to. I still worry that one day I am going to blow up because everyone always says metabolism slows as you age... I was a petite person prior to being on prednisone. My figure now is quite similar to what I was used to throughout my life.

Jan 9-April 9 and August 21-2018

notsosicklygirl said...
I was way too heavy from prednisone before surgery, but yes, I'm smaller since, and I don't really put on weight like I used to. I still worry that one day I am going to blow up because everyone always says metabolism slows as you age... I was a petite person prior to being on prednisone. My figure now is quite similar to what I was used to throughout my life.

Good to hear you were able to get the pred weight off. I've gained quite a bit. During this current course of pred particularly I gained a lot of neck and face fat and my waist is where most of the fat has gone. It makes it really hard to find pants that fit because I hate having anything tight around my waist. I'm just hoping it goes away. I'm eating way healthier than I was in 2018 and the first half of this year so I feel like I shouldn't be gaining still.

UC is a tough illness, which can make a lot of fluctuation in our appearance: rapid weight loss from the worst of a flare, rapid weight gain from pred, among other things that can hit us hard. Met a nice lady with Crohn's at one of my remicade infusions, she had her Crohn's for 40+ years and was a seasoned veteran of it all. She laughed it off and says she keeps two sets of her wardrobe as she was tired of always throwing out and rebuying remission and flare sized-clothes with a smile on her face. I've gone through the cycle myself a few times, Lowest weight was 122-pounds (count my vertebrae and ribs kinda frail) to 166 pounds where I am now, which is a more than I'd like to be (but have a flare safety-net, spare tire :-p ).

Easy to say try not and worry about your weight. After a flare, you will return to your normal exercise and eating habits, and we tend to return to our normal weight for our habits.

It does. Long term pred usage moves mass from the extremities to the core. We essentially temporarily have Cushing's Syndrome while on pred when on pred continuously for 1+ years and have the body figure to match it (a couple months does not do this). Given exercise moves the mass back from core to extremities over time, post-pred. So, you'd want to do arm and leg weight training at the gym, and cardio like jogging to rebuild the muscles within your extremities. When we workout, fat is burned off for the energy we use. As a runner, you'll burn off whatever pred did. Weight bearing exercise also strengthens the bones, which repairs bone loss from pred. Certainly I would take a daily C and D vitamin supplement to help strengthen your bones too.

When I was on pred, I started to lose weight without trying as soon as I reached 5mg. The thing that was annoying was it all went onto my tummy whereas I wouldn't have minded if it had been more uniformly distributed. .. I didn't consciously buy larger clothes but some of my trousers wouldnt fasten and if I now put on the jeans that I wore on higher dose pred they are falling down.
Good luck with the dexa scan! Btw presnisone typically causes a lower bone density in the spine than the hip (there are different types of osteoporosis which affect different parts of the body)

3TC I wish lol . When I was sick in the hospital I lost around 15 pounds then an extra pound of two of colon . But my issue is up until recent I was in too much pain to work out or I was worried about getting a hernia . So all together I gained close to 20 pounds since all this started. Size 5-6 to 10 now grr
Glad all is well you . Are all your BM liquid ?

I slowly, without trying, lost weight over the five years I had UC. by the time I had my first step of jpouch surgery (and after 11 days in the hospital) I had lost close to 25 pounds. I had some to lose, so it was nice to fit in old jeans again. But over the last year since I’ve had my takedown I’ve gained all 25 back. In one year! I feel good again, so not really complaining. Did anyone else go through this?

Andrina said...
How to gain weight after surgeries? I seem to be unable to do it

Are you underweight? I feel like I am the correct weight for my height. I don't try to gain or lose, but I tend to stay the same. I would think if you really want to gain, you would have to eat foods that are high calorie.