GLP-1 Medications

[MamaMermaid]

I'm on semiglutide. The worst I've had is some vomit in the mornings after taking the shot. It's truly a miracle drug.

 

[TippyThomas]

A relative of mine has been on Wegovy almost a year now. She lost weight but not much. It has definitely improved her A1C numbers and she overall just feels better. We spent a week together recently. I am on a calorically controlled diet of 1500 per day. She just uses the medication. She out-ate me at every meal even though she said she didn't feel hungry that much. I think this is probably why her weight loss is not that significant. But in every other metric, she feels better and her numbers look better. If she did do some diet modifications, her weight loss would probably be pretty astounding.

She was really scared to take it and she did have some minor nausea to start but it went away pretty quickly.

I've never been a morning eater, so I generally have always eaten 2 meals a day. When I started Ozempic again, I noticed that the desire for little snacks between meals was gone, and I for sure was eating less at each meal as well. I wonder if her eating is just a force of habit thing or an emotional thing? Seems strange to me because I often have to force myself to eat because I feel zero hunger a few times a week. I get that low glucose feeling and am quickly reminded that I have to get something in my body. When my meter drops into the low 70's or high 60's, it's very evident that I better do something quick.

 

[Christine]

I've never been a morning eater, so I generally have always eaten 2 meals a day. When I started Ozempic again, I noticed that the desire for little snacks between meals was gone, and I for sure was eating less at each meal as well. I wonder if her eating is just a force of habit thing or an emotional thing? Seems strange to me because I often have to force myself to eat because I feel zero hunger a few times a week. I get that low glucose feeling and am quickly reminded that I have to get something in my body. When my meter drops into the low 70's or high 60's, it's very evident that I better do something quick.

Probably some sort of habit. We were on a trip and she kept telling me she was never hungry. But we had all our meals together and she would just order a meal for herself. I remember most mornings at the hotel, I got the bowl of oatmeal. She had pastries and fruit and glass of juice. We went to lunch at a BBQ restaurant and we ordered the exact same meal, which she ate all of it. If I wasn't hungry, I could never have finished it. Finally we went to this one restaurant that was so awful but we were stuck there for a happy hour. I ordered a bowl of minestrone soup and she ordered a personal pizza which was pretty big. She managed to eat it. She kept saying she was never really hungry and I believe that, so I think she was just eating it because she enjoyed it.

 

[leebee]

I had bariatric surgery (gastric sleeve) in 2016 and lost 110 pounds. I did well with it, but about two years ago, the weight started to creep back. Not much, but a little every month, until I was 23 pounds over my weight-loss low. I was eating more than usual and the "food chatter" was back. I started on tirzepatide in mid-August and have lost 17 pounds, without side effects. I will stay on it a few more months (the cost is kinda ridiculous) and then decide whether to keep taking it or not. I am hoping that these months of reduced food intake have "reset" my sleeve, so I can continue eating small amounts regularly, without the tirzepatide. The sleeve worked really well for me for 8 years, so I am hoping that it will continue to work once I stop taking the drugs.