Add me to the list that was influenced by @skypilot6. Started mid-November at 250’ish, down to 205 this week. Feel great. Super happy. Zepbound for me.
Oh Oh Ohhhhh GLP-1!!!
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Displaced... again.
Well, the Wegovy pill sounds promising.
I'm going to try one more week of the 1.7mg Wegovy injection and see how this next week goes. I have one trick that I implemented last week that actually worked. it kept me from vomiting the morning after taking the injection, such a nice change! So I'm going to try that trick again and see if it continues to work. It's the only hurdle I care about. The rest of the GI BS, as much as it's unwanted, I can deal with.
If not, I'll be having a convo about switching from injection to pill or maybe Foundaio pill. I still really want to lose another 15-30 lbs though, get to my college or better yet HS weight.
I started off with Tirzepitide peptides, if I remember correctly about 2 years ago, before moving to Zepbound (which physically made me feel like I had the flu every week, worse than Wegovy) then switched to Wegovy.
I would love to see R&D (research & development) come out with a version of these drugs that has no side effects so anyone and everyone can benefit from it.
My other half just started the journey a couple of weeks ago on the Wegovy - it's been pretty awful for her with the side effects. Nausea and just overall energy stuff. And she is only on "level 1" of the Wegovy - the .25. One thing that did help a lot last week was her doc started giving her a B-12 shot on "shot day" - she did the 2nd one yesterday along with the 3rd wegovy injection and I'm hoping to hear some good news before I launch out of the islands back to NYC when she wakes up.
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I forgot to add that the nightly abuse from my wife every time I snored is gone too! What a nice side effect from loosing weight. I do wake up feeling better in the morning, and I wasn’t about to jump on the CPAP train just to stay husky. Zepbound has literally been a life changer.
I can’t think of any side effects from it other than occasional heartburn, but Tums or milk soothes it out. No nausea, headaches or anything else you would hear in a commercial for any other drug.
I can’t think of any side effects from it other than occasional heartburn, but Tums or milk soothes it out. No nausea, headaches or anything else you would hear in a commercial for any other drug.
I'm always doing new trial and error concepts since the side effects would never seem to wane but I think I found something promising for the first few nights after taking the injection. My doc always tells me to change one thing at a time and see how your body responds.
I often read other people's responses and their trails to the injections on Reddit, it's technically all women in those chats since this gender seems to have the most side effects from the injection. Anyhoo, it's been documented that probiotics and protein are a huge factor when it comes to the side effects.
I added psyllium husk to my everyday diet a few weeks ago to try balancing out the lower GI and that is working pretty well, still trying to get the dosing correct...highly recommend!
2 weeks ago, when I wrote my initial "might move to wegovy pill" post, I decided to add extra probiotics and protein at night. My side effects typically start showing 2-4 hrs after injection on the 1.7mg. I typically take my shot at 8pm so I can sleep through most of the crappy starter side effects. I had been using greek yogurt as my probiotic for lunch and decided to try adding Kefir at night as a booster since it's apparently more supportive than greek yogurt. So 2 weeks ago, on injection night, I drank 4oz of Kefir 2 hrs before bed and upped my protein intake by adding a core power 42gram protein shake (vanilla ice cream flavor) 1 hr before I went to bed. I didn't want to report the success too soon but 2 weeks in a row now, this has actually worked to minimize the nausea/vomiting the morning after injection. I haven't gotten rid of the vomiting entirely yet cuz Day 3 and Day 4 seems to be in flux (will have to try same method for Night 2) but I have definitely felt a change with it, the nausea/vomiting wasn't present on Day 2! So anyway, I had good success last week and tried this trial again last Friday, injection day. Day 2, no nausea/vomiting/lower GI good/felt pretty good, Day 3 back to nausea/vomiting partial day and I'm on day 4 where 90% of my side effects are gone except for the insane amount of burping that causes my stomach to tumble when I'm up and moving around (annoying!). So far, this is the 2nd time that the nausea has actually stayed low enough to where tums is all that's needed the rest of the week.
Now just watch...my weight has, so far, stayed the same and I betcha my doc will tell me I need to up the dose....I can see it coming and that's not happening.
