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Does being sick or taking medicine affect ketosis?
klaak
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Just curious....the past month I've been sick. First I had to take a round of antibiotics which I hate doing. Then I got sick again, with a terrible cold for ten days and took cold medicine. I noticed during this time my ketosis was spotty or non existent, even though I was still following macros, just probably not eating quite so much.
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Stress will affect ketone levels. I'm sure poor health and fatigue could too. And so could sugary medicines and cough candies.
I hope you are recovered soon.
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a lot of medications cause me to retain an obscene amount of water, which I expect would impact test strip results0
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There are a lot of things affected when sick, and with various medications. The best suggestion I can give is to focus on healing and return to dieting when beyond that. Don't try to manage both simultaneously.2
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