when do you start gaining weight again after treatment

[clinken]

Hi everyone! it has been almost 8 weeks post treatment and it seems like the weight is still falling off. all my clients tell me I still am losing weight. I thought it comes back sooner. also am still losing hair when does that stop! Has anyone's hair grown back fuller after treatment? also my doctor has informed me that he is moving out of state next month so I have to find a new one. should I do a 3 month test or still wait the 6 month test to see if it is back?

[NYgirl]

Have you had your thyroid numbers checked?  The reason I lost so much weight so fast, although I WAS eating plenty of calories (thanks to ice cream) was my thyroid went completely hyper and my metabolism was through the ROOF.

Are you eating? As long as you are eating the right amount of calories a day I can't imagine why you would be losing that much weight.

Oh yeah HAIR LOSS is a side of thyroid as well...it's complicated because all of those symptoms mirror the treatment symptoms - but it could be something worth checking out.

(I am on week 43 or 44 and I started gainning weight back a few weeks ago when the thyroid was diagnosed as HYPO (it went the other way) Now I am on synthetic replacement and it's working ok.

[tulsatime]

My hair fell out for a month or so after treatment. mine grew back the same thickness. I had no wieght lose during treatment. Darn-it. So can't talk about that. I would get a PCR at 3 months. My doctor waited till 6 mo. And I had relapsed. I wish I had known sooner. I would have jumped right back on treatment. I bet it feels good to be off treatment! Good luck on you PCR.... Take care

[jmjm530]

My pre-tx weight was around 175. Dropped down to 148 at my low during treatment. Finished treatment around 160. Sixteen weeks post treatment back around 175. May have to start dieting soon :) I don't think I started gaining weight until around week 8 post treatment. From what I've read most everyone gains their weight back and then some if not careful. Are you eating enough? Maybe slightly more complex carbs and fats.  Have your taste budds returned to normal? I know mine were significantly altered for some time but returned pretty much to normal by week 12 post treatment. I think it's also important that when you do start gaining weight to get on an exercise program -- weights as well as aerobic -- so all the weight doesn't come back as fat. All the best.

-- Jim

[doglover28]

Hi,
Did you doc check your thyroid prior to treatment?  Mine ran a thyroid blood test at my last visit, and I wonder if that is why.  He ran that and one that has something to do with how well my blood clots.  I assume that one is in relation to the biopsy that's coming up.
Pam

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wow you guys got back to me fast! well i will call him today and ask him if he thinks I should have it checked. i was 143 when i started and now about 118. my taste buds are not back food still taste's yucky. but im trying to eat alot and i do excersize mostly just palaties I dont think i need to lose more fat doing cardio if you know what i mean. Im so scared to retest I stress every minute about retesting. my doctor has told me that 80 % of his patients clear thats good new's. but I stoped early at 9 months because of sides to tough. I was a 1a with a viral load of 50,000 so stage 1. i have to go to work so ill check the post later thanks so so so much.

[lilmoma]

I posted below.............prolly buried now

[52TELE]

I didn't wait for treatment to be over before I started gaining weight. I got carried away with the "comfort foods" way to early and am paying for it now.

[lilmoma]

(Copied and posted here from below)                        Today is hubbys b-day, so I gotta pull myself outta myself so we can celebrate "his" day.
Thank you for caring though.
A good friend of mine was just diagnosed with luekemia, (CLL kind) and it is pretty advanced, he starts chemo next monday, they found it in a routine check-up.
I looked at the Movie you posted, pretty funny stuff. i tried makin one, but think it went off into cyber-space somewhere.
I have not been sleepin g so well, and I have started to lose weight again. My hair feels like spider-webs all over my face, and I find myself becoming very obsessive/compulsive in mmy thinking. My mantra as of late has been "I hate my job,..I hate my job" I finally called a friend (at 2 in the morning)and we talked for a while, but now I worry that she is gonna think Im some kind of a screw-ball,....it is a no win situation. You keep it to yourself, your depressed, you tell someone, and you feel bad b/c now they have "that look in their eye" when you see them again (like they need to tip-toe around you)Im not fragile, quite the opposite, but when I confess feelings, people get "that look" I cant stand it!!!Does any of this make any sense?
Again, thank you for caring,.....you are ONE IN A MILLION!!!!!

[doglover28]

sorry about your friend.  Hope you start feeling better, too.  Happy B-day to your hubby.

[NYgirl]

My doc ran all the bloodwork prior to starting tx so we had baseline numbers to start with. Even if he hadn't though...when it reads ZERO that's not good either way and he would have known it died.

I have to call the doctors now and get my latest results...I keep forgetting and I'm dying to nkow if the med is working or not.

I noticed a whole bunch of hair fell out this weekend again (it had slowed down) and really I think that the hair issue had more to do with the thyroid than anything else (cause it came out the most when I was getting the problem)

[doglover28]

I'll keep my fingers crossed and say my prayers that the medicine is working for you.

[cuteus]

is it Ensure?

the hair will grow back, and some report no gray hair when it comes back, not me though. I did notice some coming back where it had been receding for years. It is nice to be able to make a fist around a pony tail, after doing it with two fingers for so long. But I think you get something like PTHSD(post traumatic hair schok disorder) not to mean the hair is not behaving, but meaning that the trauma of seeing if fall out like it did, generates flashbacks and anxiety when only a few strands fall out nowadays.
it will ge better

[miss moneypenny]

Hi there,

just wanted to agree re the thyroid issue, I think that most of my hair loss has been due to the hyperthyroid, and now the meds are working well - carbimazole - and I have stopped the beta blockers the hair loss seems to have slowed right down. Not without first leaving me looking like a scarecrow though!!!!!

xx

[Pdilly]

Thyroid anything can mess with your hair.  I have Hypothyroid and I have thinner hair than I used to.

[cao]

Bizarrely perhaps, mine came back on exactly six months post-tx...It seemed like one day I was commenting how much I loved my post-tx figure (and newfound energy) and the next the weight was coming back...sad really b/c it was the one side effect from tx that I really liked:)

[Pdilly]

Oh no....I was hoping it would stay off.  ARG!!!