favourite pastime these days is eating tremendous happy tight. But strangely dot put any weight on apart Tom the fact I am getting a big belly😱At least one good thing 😜Talk about a seafood diet. Not sure why my belly is coming out 🤷♂️ Two appointments next week in heat wave, one for earring aid Other for heart scan. Lucky both daily early morning. I’m going to leave car window open in car park whilst in hospital. Should not be too long Keep safe everyone be careful 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
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Hi Ronzy,Just a gentle warning to say that one of the possible side effects of taking steroids is an increased appetite but unfortunately so is weight gain... particularly around your middle.
The way you metabolise food changes when on steroids so in very simple terms, eating foods that are high in sugar or carbohydrates leads to them being laid down as fat in your body, and this tends to be largely around your tummy and middle.
This is really best to be avoided if at all possible, as it can lead to other health issues like diabetes, etc, so just be a bit mindful of that if you can.
Still waiting to hear the results of your biopsy…do you have GCA? Please let us know, I’ve tried to help you in the past months, & would like to know! I’ve put on 2 stone this time with steroids, & 2 stone over the previous ten years with steroids for lung issues. I let one stone on the keto diet, now working on low carbs for the next etc etc! Please look at FAQs re carb diet & losing weight…but you seem happy gaining it, so perhaps you are under weight (wish I was ever like that…chubby from birth, that’s me)!
Ah, OK…but this is good news, isn’t it? Hopefully means you don’t have GCA?! I understand you were on 40mg for 2 weeks before the biopsy. But last time you posted you were on 80mg & it wasn’t working! Guess you are still on 80mg now…seems to make you happy, though! Perhaps your symptoms are connected with heart trouble & no GCA…glad they are finding out…take care…we’ve been out in the heat for 9 days & love it…roasting gently in a motorhome at night…but don’t roast in your car…seek shade…& I do hope somebody finds out what’s wrong with you…& soon!! Gardening?? With GCA & PMR & hot summer???? Wot?
The belly fat is because that is where pred tends to make fat deposit - or move to, sort of rearranges itself! And pred turns excess sugar into fat - so if you are bothered about your belly, cut the carbs (bread and cake and sweets) and nibble on a lettuce leaf
I hope you get good results from your tests. I know what you mean about eating, Pred really makes food enjoyable. Let us know how you get on. I also hope that nobody nicks your car!
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