Lost 12lbs in 10 months using it intermittently with no exercise.
Go on the saxenda support pages on fb. Lots of great advice and success stories.
First time I used it I reacted badly. I learnt that you don’t have to start at the start dose, you can move up slowly, it’s referred to as clicks. With the pen I think it’s 10 clicks of the pen to reach each dose. When I restarted I just used a couple of clicks at a time to build up my tolerance to it. I have to do this with other medications sometimes too, so it’s not just saxenda.
Some people have absolutely no side effects at all.
Keep a diary of what your eating, if you do get bad side effects you can see what foods your eating trigger them. It also might not have been something you ate that day, but a day or 2 earlier.
Common side effects, Sulphur burps, for me I know as soon as I get these I’m going to eventually vomit, usually hours later after lots of nausea. Lots of people get them without the vomiting though. Green tea helps a lot, so dose peppermint tea.
My trigger foods are anything hard to digest, a lot of green veg, broccoli, cabbage, onions, high fibre foods, anything spicy.
Carbs are a big trigger for many.
Another thing for me, I still eat “unhealthy” foods, but in a far more controlled way. I will have a bowl of sugar puffs for breakfast, but instead of 2 giant pasta bowl size potions, I eat a tiny bowl with skimmed milk and I’m full for hours. I will still have a McDonald’s or pizza, but again in very small potions.
Constipation is also common as well as fatigue, the fatigue gets better as you get use to not eating so much.
I’ve been off it a week as I’ve been ill, my appetite is back with a vengeance. I’m hoping to restart again tomorrow.
Good Luck.