Have you gained weight since being on abx?

[cave76]

"The results of the study were dramatic, particularly in female mice: They gained about twice as much body fat as the control-group mice who ate the same food. “For the female mice, the antibiotic exposure was the switch that converted more of those extra calories in the diet to fat, while the males grew more in terms of both muscle and fat,” Dr. Blaser writes. “The observations are consistent with the idea that the modern high-calorie diet alone is insufficient to explain the obesity epidemic and that antibiotics could be contributing.”

This is just an opinion piece by the NYT--- but the studies were valid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/opinion/sunday/the-fat-drug.html?_r=0

[wonko]

I've had a life-long struggle with weight, obese as a child, eating disorder as a teen, obese as an adult.  

Before I was diagnosed, I was doing all I could to improve my health and I'd lost over 40 lbs.  Once I stated abx, it was all I could do not to gain weight and after a year of frustration (counting every calorie as exercising through fatigue and pain), I gave up and gained most of the weight back.  

Around when I stopped abx I was dx with a massive fibroid tumor that was draining my energy and also making weight loss/management extremely tough.  I had surgery to remove it in august 2012.

Last year, off abx and done with the fibroid, I finally got on thyroid treatment, though I'm only considered "sub clinical" hypo, and I again lost 40 lbs, this time in only about 4 months.  But now I've gained a lot of that back due to pregnancy.

It is roller coaster for sure though I take some comfort to think that the abx made the already hard job of weight loss/management even harder!

[cave76]

I gained weight almost immediately when I started Biaxin WAAAY back in the beginning. I think that was the first  of many antibiotics i took over the years. I'm  almost 100% positive that was the culprit  because I ordered some new jeans and pants, going by what I had always worn. By the time those jeans got delivered I'd put on enough weight that I could barely fit in them. And it's just gone uphill since then.

My thyroid is being treated adequately. But I'm also on other meds (now) that I wasn't on then (HBP and Coumadin and others) that have weight gain as a side effect.

I also got tested for leptin a few years later (a hormone) and am off the charts on that. (There's no agreed upon treatment for that).

So, no wonder I'm a blimp.:(

[BreiaLee]

I have definitely gained weight, but I'm not sure it can be attributed solely to the abx, because I am and have been on so many different meds, it's hard to say which might actually be responsible.  I also have hypothyroidism which isn't being treated adequately yet, so losing the weight has been a challenge. But this information is interesting and definitely provides food for thought.

[mojogal]

I gained weight when I fist started treatment on abx but mine was solved as soon as I found out I was hypothyroid and had that problem fixed.