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Anyone else experience Weight Gain with long COVID?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Sep 21 8:51am | Replies (400)Comment receiving replies
I have been experiencing the same thing now a year later. It was so fast I thought I was going crazy. I went from 145 to 180 in a matter of months nonstop. My physician thought it was hormones because I had just turned 46 and maybe I was going thru the change. I was told I was pre-diabetic she had me on ozempic which I believe led to the last 20lb jump. It’s been so depressing nothing fits me anymore. I look like I am pregnant or just had a baby. My hands feet legs and belly are so swollen and puffy. I stay with gastric issues I am scheduled for a colonoscopy soon. No one is listening about the weight gain being because of COVID. I have been working out swimming diving snorkeling hot yoga nothing helps. I am not a bad eater so my doctor recommended for me to eat more. She says I am not eating enough. Nothing works. I have lost 3lbs and that’s with fasting for a few days. I have worked hard to maintain a healthy weight my adult life and now I feel crappy gassy bloated and very sore and tired a lot. I hope a remedy comes soon it’s hard seeing my self like this and nothing I do works.
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Eliminating gluten from my diet relieved the bloating. But, unfortunately nothing has touched the 60 pound weight gain in 6 months post Covid. I can wear the same pants and skirts. But, I have to wear top 2 sizes larger, and larger bra size at 71. I avoid the scale and eat healthy.
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I'm 46 as well and have been told the weight is due to hormones and age. I never struggled with my weight ever until I had COVID. Not even when I was pregnant did I struggle with my weight or losing the baby weight. I had COVID in January of 2022. Went from 120 to 135 in a few weeks. Went to the doctor and they couldn't see anything wrong. I didn't change my eating habits as I follow an AIP diet. And I exercise regularly. Held steady at 140 no matter what I did. Contracted COVID again in August 2022. Put on another 15 pounds within weeks so was at 150. And doctors have zero answers other than I have elevated cortisol levels. No answer on how to lower that level. Well was sick a couple weeks ago which felt like when I had COVID (tested negative twice) but have been putting on weight rapidly again. I am now at 156 and climbing. I'm only 5'2" so I am swollen and look pregnant. My shoes don't even fit anymore because of how swollen I am. And for how many people are on this forum there has to be a correlation between COVID and weight gain that has nothing to do with over eating.