Has anyone used weight-loss injections? Did they work?

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I am severely overweight and have been for a few years now since youngest DC was born. Keep yo-yo dieting, and losing a bit then regaining. I have started getting ads for Saxenda injections. Has anyone tried them? Did they work? Would really appreciate any feedback. Thank you

apricotseason this is false.. you can only buy them through a licenced pharmacy. You're likely thinking of other pens marketed for weightloss that do no work.

You can buy Saxenda through aesthetics clinics or online pharmacies.

I didn't even know about these. Interesting.

I did shit myself. I’m not lying. I went up from 1.2 after a week or so to 1.8 - had the most horrendous eggy burbs all evening & then was driving home when I couldn’t stop. I shit myself.

Anyway, I’m still on 1.2 now as I dread going back up to 1.8 but going to try again soon. The side effects on 1.2 are non-existent for me.

Ive lost 12lb so far & I am going to continue with it but yes the side effects can be fucking awful!

Oh, apparently if you use the code welcome20 you can sometimes get discount with boots (sometimes you don’t).
I’m on the Facebook group PP mentioned - and no didn’t mention my car shitting there as it’s not anonymous 😂(I have to lie or I’ll cry, I was literally traumatised)

It worked for me in the sense that it significantly decreased my appetite. Like I had zero appetite. However i didn't really lose any weight so I stopped using them. £250 I'll never got back 🙄🙄

I tried Saxenda and then switched to Ozempic. Both worked brilliantly for me but my side effects with Saxenda were worse than with Ozempic. I eat what I like now but I just naturally have much smaller portions and it's quite easy for me to resist cravings. I used to feel hungry almost all the time and I used to struggle to stop eating once I'd started. Now all that is in the past.

I have used Zaxenda for two months now and have lost 10kg. I have another 15kg to lose though. I have always struggled to maintain weightloss as my cravings are out of control. I always knew how to eat but I seemed unable to stick to it whilst relying on willpower alone. With the cravings gone I find it easy to stick to a good and sustainable eating regime. I don't do anything drastic. 1200 cal, keeping an eye on macros and 10 000 steps a day. I am tempted to move to Ozempic as its a weekly rather than daily dose but worried about breaking my streak.

I've been on Saxander for 10 weeks and I've lost 3 stone and 1 pound. It's been life changing for me.

Ozempic has worked incredibly well for a friend of mine.
it gave me the most awful diarrhoea - I came very close to shitting myself a couple of times.
That phase did pass, but I just couldn’t justify the cost of it.

Used it very successfully in 2019 and lost about three stone- maybe more. Only side effect for me was tiredness. But then at the end of the year I got pancreatitis (a mentioned warning) and ended up in hospital for a week. Was it Saxenda or was it losing weight fairly quickly? I'll never know for sure but it scared me off it. It was a miracle while using- I felt like how naturally thin people must feel, just having food for fuel.

But if you cannot teach yourself good nutritional habits you will only put the weight back on again so a bit pointless.

Learn how to cook healthy means and stop snacking is always the best route to weight loss.

I was on sax for 8 months. It didn't work that well for me. It certainly helped limit appetite and stopped my binge cycles (so even though I didn't lose much, I didn't continue to gain anything in the time I was on it) but I found that appetite/fullness/hunger isn't my main issue with food. It also made me quite unwell at times. The first few weeks are really hard and beyond that I also had 2 very bad bouts of v&d that lasted 24 hours each time. No rhyme nor reason to it either as I was very careful with what I ate when on sax.

I found it too difficult to do the programme. I did it privately and was told I couldn't eat after 2pm. I'd be so hungry. If I did eat in the evening, it would be repeating on me all night.

Forgot to add I bought mine through skinny jab. They no longer seem to be around. I'm wondering now whether the 2pm thing was a made up rule

How bizarre why would I lie? I actually posted on Facebook to the group about it and the post was chorused by a huge number of replies of people saying they had also been caught short. It literally came out of nowhere as well. I followed the instructions to the letter.

I've read about it and looked into it in the past. Too many horror stories related to cancer and I just couldn't. All on a previous thread on Mumsnet I believe

So, although I don't believe everything I read, I decided that, for me personally, it didn't feel right to try it

Apparently being sick is untrue as well, but my poor friend was very queasy and sick when she tried the injections.

Your body has to be lacking in the ability to release the hormone that Saxenda stimulates the release off.

Is there any way to test to see if you are lacking that hormone before trying it? I would assume the people with the bad side effects are probably the people who already have the hormone in sufficient quantity and don’t need to stimulate it.

So weird. I tried saxenda for months and months and it had zero effect on me. No side effects but didn't seem to curb my hunger either.

Usually after a run I'd just eat and eat and not feel full. I'd try to stick to healthy foods (I don't even like chocolate. I know. There's something clearly wrong with me) but saxenda didn't touch it. Hoping ozempic actually does something!

I’ve been on it for 3 months lost a stone and a half
I’ve been very very sick and some bad close poop moments , it can be pretty severe . For me I need it for health reasons so worth it for a while and I’m trying to get into eating the right foods now instead of the sugar crack rush I was a slave to .

I used ozempic for a while and it was amazing. Expensive, but definitely worth it, and I liked only having to worry about it once a week.

I'm pregnant now so can't use it, and have definitely noticed how much my appetite has increased (could be partly down to pregnancy).

I'll almost certainly go back onto it again once I'm no longer pregnant.

They're expensive, you have to adjust your diet anyway and there are some side effects but I'm on them and they're a miracle for me. I'm no longer hungry - bored hungry, stressed hungry, binge hungry - all the kinds of hunger that cause me to overeat and dip into the cupboards past 8.

I can now eat 'normally'. Regular portions of food satisfy me. I don't feel the urge to binge. I still eat high calorie foods from time to time but far far less than I used to. I actually feel satiated.

I'm losing a healthy 2lb a week with minimal effort and no more binging. £250 a month is worth this freedom.

Yes and this supports that

It made me feel very nauseous despite staying well below the correct dose. It worked in that I didn’t want to eat but I also felt terrible which was sustainable, so stopped.

Are you sure it was Saxenda? Liragutide is the medication name.

Skinny jab, was something being pushed on Instagram by Gemma Collins and a load of rubbish. Not in the league of this at all.