Lost weight rapidly,now worried.Not helping!

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I've posted recently after a sudden and severe bout of gastritis,for which I was prescribed Omeprazole and am currently taking.Since mid Febuary weight has just fallen off me,3/4 of a stone and I was just over 8 stone at 5'2.It has been a busy year with 2 bereavements and a house move ,and I did tweak my diet and cut out bread ,and cut down on cakes and sugary foods at the end if last year in an attempt to get rid of my horrible fungal toenails and get rid of excessive wind, and itchy rectum .Sorry TMI!
I lost a bit more weight but tbh felt fantastic.Clear headed, clear skinned and bounding with energy and sleeping like a log.Then 2 months ago a close friend said she was seriously worried I'd gone so thin.I shrugged it off and said I felt great but since then other people have felt the need to comment, and my clothes are literally hanging off me.Even the new smaller jeans I bought 3 weeks ago.
So.I have been to the GP.its not thyroid or diabetes.I'm now an urgent referral for Gastro clinic, but apparently that could be another 3 weeks wait.Think now I'm getting anxious to the point it's causing more weight loss.Made DH hide the scales last week.I never used to weigh myself , ever,just went on my clothes.But stupidly I have just found them and weight has gone down yet again.
Thing is I'm getting to the point where I don't want to go out as self concious and nothing fits.Baggy clothes just make me look worse.And I'm loathe to buy more new stuff in case this is some stupid blip.Anyone else experienced this ?Friends coming for a meal tonight and I should be looking forward to it, but just want to cancel.Ps .I'm eating plenty.Thanks.

Over active thyroid? Get checked out at you GP's

Deep breath and try not to panic (easier said than done!). At least you are now in the system to find out what is up. Tell your friends. Real friends should be there and not judge. And keep us posted.

Thanks Inca.Waking up in the night hungry.Eating toast now in fact as my stomach feels it's eating itself.Went ahead with having friends round and I ate well and my friend ,who is coeliac and genuinely has problems keeping weight on was lovely and supportive.Glad I didn't cancel and felt the most relaxed and forgot about the whole business for the evening.
I am wondering if the last few pounds have gone due to anxiety - which I didn't have prior to the comments .I can overthink things and go into full out worry mode once I get an idea in my head.And a close relative has just been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer out of the blue -never smoked - and the whole family has been very upset.However I'd already lost my weight prior to that.
It's not thyroid.Already been to the GP and had blood tests and he said he put his money on that because I was bouncing around feel of beans.Guess I just have to keep calm and wait .Hopefully at least an appointment date will come through this week.

Hello op. Glad you had a good evening and a good supportive friend.

I know you said you've cut out sugar. But do you eat low fat as well?

Itchy rectum, wind and fungal toenails sounds like classic yeast (candida) overgrowth. It's strange though because candida is usually associated with weight gain.

How do you feel on the omeprazole? It reduced stomach acid levels to almost zero so this can mess with your digestive process.

I lost a LOT of weight when I stopped eating wheat, cutting down on sugar will also trigger weight loss.

Hmm.....so you're bouncing around with lots of energy and have restricted your diet. That sounds like a good way to lose weight to me!
If you're generally feeling well, maybe you need to up your calorie intake?

It sounds as though you changed your diet quite a lot, are you still restricting it? Have you logged your calories against your activity levels? The combination of changing your diet, moving about more, and being stressed could easily have created a deficit which means you lose weight.

You don't need to reintroduce cake, etc if you don't want to, but you do need to compensate for the calories you're down if you want to stop losing weight.

Thanks for the replies.Been out for a long relaxing walk with our dogs.And yes I feel so well otherwise I can't believe I've got so worried.I cut out bread altogether really at the end of last year,and cut back a lot on sugary things because when my iron was low and periods were heavy I was using carbs a lot for energy boost,then with the fungal toes etc realised that was not a good idea.Don't want to sound too fixated on food,and I really have still been eating well up until the gastritis flare up 2 weeks ago.just big pieces of fish,steak etc and lots of veg.Big bowl of porridge with berries at breakfast and snacks of nuts instead of biscuits.
But given my excess of energy, and as you say some stress I do wonder if it's been more of a deficit than I realized.However I will still be glad to get it checked out.Think my digestive system has taken a battering and I need to sort out the candida thing - sure that's ongoing once and for all once I know ,fingers xd,its nothing serious.

Ps. Captain Zoot thanks your post reassured me.Guess because I'm small build anyway it's been so noticeable.As for the Omeprazole I feel OK I guess,but keep getting a niggling pain through from my breastbone through to my back,more so in between meals or just before,rather than immediately after eating.But I really don't like taking meds,would prefer natural cures but doing what the GP said and taking it until seen at hospital.