Anyone taken weight loss injections and regretted it?

Powder that needs reconstituting? I've never heard of that. You mean they send a powder and you have to somehow turn it into liquid then inject?

Did your provider not do checks on your weight. Why didn’t you stop earlier. You are running huge risks with your health.

Massive eye roll from me.
Done well, Botox is the best thing ever so don’t knock it.
You don’t see those who get Botox coming on here judging wrinkled, frumpy women.
To each her own.

I've been having botox on and off for 10 years and intend to continue! Definitely don't regret it and I dont know anyone who has it who has regretted it.

People are so judgemental about women and their appearance/health.

I don’t regret taking them, I had no side effects and it worked very well for me. I’ve just stopped taking them and should have stopped much earlier though. I’m currently 7st 5lbs and at 5ft 6, I look like a skeleton - a number of people have expressed concern for my health. DC are embarrassed at how thin I’ve become. Currently at a lovely AI hotel though and expecting to put about a stone on over the next fortnight, which will look much better.

Yes, it's exactly the same as having fillers and Botox etc 🤣

WLIs are the very thing that make many people's minds and bodies accept the need for a calorie deficit!

Totally agree. We all know what we NEED to do but the WLI injections turn off the food noise and keep us fuller longer so that it's easier to do what we NEED to do!

What a ridiculous comment

That puts you on the threshold of 'underweight' BMI - I'm sorry you didn't get better clinical care. It seems madness that any clinician allowed you to stay on WLI with this BMI. That's exactly why they are clamping down now.

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Also!! I have had a thyroid goitre for many years which caused no issues and was stable. In the time I took the ozempic it grew exponentially- to the point I now need a total thyroidectomy as the goitre is now in my chest cavity and compressing my tracea. I do not know if this is linked but as ozempic is linked to thyroid cancer I would say there's a decent chance I have done this to myself by taking the injections. I have been too embarrassed to ask my consultant. I will say that for those with obesity which causes genuine health problems then ozempic is probably the lesser of 2 evils. But as someone who was obese with no health problems, it has likely been more damaging to me than not.

There are companies that provide maintenance plans for around £120 per month. Check out https://monj.co.uk/mounjaro-maintenance-pharmacies/

I used them for about 8 months. In that time I lost approximately a stone (with horrendous stomach pains, nausea, anxiety etc) a year later I have lost an additional 3 stone through calorie counting and regular exercise. I often wonder if I should try losing the final 1.5/ 2 stone with the injections combined with calorie counting and exercise, but then remember how ill they made me. I think they must be great for some people, and I don't regret taking them- but have found that diet and exercise with a healthy dose of will power has been more beneficial to me. And hopefully will be a better long term solution as now I have created healthy habits I can stick to.

I'm 5.1"
I was not underweight at the time but I did get very slim, very quickly.

What reason/reasons do you think people will have for regretting it?

I think in the next few many years many will regret it for some reason.
Same as having fillers and botox etc.

You are eligible at BMI 27+ if you have things like PCOS, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes etc. And you can usually carry on to lose weight down to BMI 23 once you are on tirzepatide.

https://onlinedoctor.asda.com/uk/mounjaro-pcos.html

You are unlikely to be heavy enough to need them. I have lost 5 stone on MJ and am still technically 2 stones overweight but my BMI is now 27 so wouldn't be eligible to get it.

I have been on WLI since January and have lost 3st. I'm very happy with them. Still have around 2st to lose.

I don't think you would qualify for WLI as only 2st would not put you above 30 BMI.

Please think carefully about this. Do not lie to qualify, be honest.

I had a bad and extreme reaction. I was a ‘super responder’. On smallest dose for three weeks and over four weeks lost 22lbs. I retched if I even smelt food.

it interfered with my depression meds and sent me proper loopy. Took about 6/8 weeks to stabilise after the injections and I was off work.

I have no gallbladder as that went in my early 20s after slimming world. I have maybe two stone to lose?

my friend who is celiac had dreadful sulphur burps and constant diarrhea. My other friend also coeliac has found it amazing and only has maybe a stone to lose.

There a large amount of luck
involved.

Sorry to hear about your experience but were you receiving clinical advice to remain on WLI when you were only 7 stone? If if you are very, very short that is starvation/eating disorder territory.

I do too, especially if the preliminary research about the other benefits comes to fruition.

Cost and logistics are a problem at the moment, and the NHS can also reap the benefits of a significant minority of the obese population funding it themselves as things stand. But these are things that could change.

My GP was very supportive and said to do whatever works for me. I was only just in the obese category but being menopausal suffering from joint pain and general tiredness I was struggling to stay on track with any fitness regime or diet. There’s jabs have supported me and I’ve lost very slowly going up only to 5mg. I think you have to take a measured approach. There’s a risk in any medication but balance that against being obese and the implications that go along with that.

Exactly.

What it has done (I hope) is made me fit and strong (along with yoga, cardio etc) and has probably contributed to keeping my weight from being a lot more. Most women put on 5kg to 10kg in peri menopause. I put weight on having kids in my 30s but then actually lost about 5kg during my 40s. Just really struggled to get below BMI 27/28. Developing high (for me) blood pressure and joint pain was the last straw for me. I'm hoping now at BMI 25.6, going down to BMI 23/24 it will kind of reset my weight. My diet was good, I just couldn't sustain eating in the kind of calorie deficit required to lose weight for long enough.