Anyone else experience Weight Gain with long COVID?

Yes. I thought initially that my long haul Covid issues were severe allergies. Every symptom fit until I developed tachycardia and high blood pressure (allergies usually make blood pressure go down, not up ). I was finally tested and have ZERO food or environmental allergies here. Took me some time to digest the results because my symptoms were so very classic to allergies. I was taking the limit (or probably beyond) of allergy meds (OTC). I think the antihistamines increased my hunger and decreased my metabolism (both are known but I wasn’t aware). I gained fifteen in two month’s time. Now I have asthma (cardiac workup came back clean) and need to get lung function test and CT of lungs. Have tests scheduled, but just took a downturn again (the ebb and flow of this disease is real) and probably won’t make it to testing for now. I did have puritus and a pretty severe MCA (?) rash on my neck which necessitated a different diet and intense excema around my eyes (anything fermented would send me over the top with both). And when I was so sick, I didn’t get my regular level of exercise that I enjoy daily. Thankfully, these symptoms have disappeared.
I’ve been too sick to be depressed about the weight gain yet, but it is just one more box on the list of long Covid symptoms.

Sounds like u r putting putting on muscle while the fat is disappearing. I'm walking up to 15 minutes per time 2 to 3 times per day to get in 45 minutes. I seem to be losing weight and hope that's the cause. Cancer runs in my father's side of the family so I need to be checked for that.

I agree yaya...after years of inability to move much, I can now do more. Nothing like I could before but it is better. I am going to try weights next to see if I can build more muscle which will burn more calories. Will start very slowly so I don't experience the dreaded post exercise malaise!

My husband brought me exercise bands and 5 lb weights to use at home so my strength isn't wasted on a trip. I mimic what I used to do at the gym best I can. I seem to be holding onto my muscle. find exercises to keep your legs and ankles strong to keep from tripping a breaking a hip.

I live a very healthy lifestyle and had maintained my weight and physical fitness for years prior to first getting Covid in the very early years and then getting the Covid vax in February of 2021. Within one week of the 2nd shot my weight started to climb, I suddenly became peri-menopausal and I had a rapid breakdown in muscle mass, unable to workout due to fatigue, severe reactive hypoglycemia and low body temperature and edema of my hands and feet. 4 years later, I can’t shake this 40lbs using any type of weight loss method, and I’m just now having the energy to do more intense workouts out again. I don’t know my body anymore and it’s in a constant state of inflammation. My hsCRP and homocysteine levels are high, despite a healthy diet and daily exercise.
I 100% blame the shot for my body becoming unhealthy and completely foreign to me. And nobody has the answers and they refuse to believe that it’s the shot that caused this.
People who know me and who have knowledges of health and wellness and work in the same field know that they only thing that changed for me was the vaccination. If I could go back and do it all over again, I would never have gotten the shots.

I also could not get rid of the weight I gained during the time I could hardly move with Long COVID but am able to walk about 2/3 of a mile now so at least no gaining any more. I have been experimenting with Lysine to help inhibit my histamine and clear my itchy skin...and my belly is noticeably shrinking. I have not gotten on the scale but it does seem to minimize visceral fat for me.

The long term covid clinic thru aurora said this is a problem. Mine was 40. They told me to stop fretting. It must plateau for 3 months and be stable. Then you can work on losing it. Mine is not coming off! It also left me with edema, shortness of breath and fatigue. I have an inhaler( never had one before) lots of damage from the weight gain and muscle loss. No one pinpoint the edema.