Wegovy - any one else feel like this is just not working.

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I've just finished my 20 weeks on Wegovy - I've lost 12lbs in total and nothing at all in the last 5 weeks. I am constantly constipated. I do have the nausea/ burping so clearly it's working but the food noise is still there (although reduced). I exercise daily and am keeping to low calories but the scales are just not moving.

I am changing shape very very slowly but I feel the headspace this is taking up is just huge. I've always been overweight, I've been dieting since I was in my teens - sometimes losing a few stone, always putting it back on. I know the injection isn't a miracle cure (it REALLY isn't) but I was hoping it might take some of the constant thinking about 'food/my weight/my body/how much I'm losing' away and let me concentrate on eating better and I feel like it's actually taking more of my headspace wondering why it doesn't seem to be working that well for me. Anyone else?

You need to speak to your prescriber and try mounjaro. Wegovy doesn’t suit every one and MJ is a different drug - it has fewer side effects and is more effective. I lost very very slowly on wegovy (and stuck it out for 9m because MJ waasn’t around when I started) and felt exactly like you do now - but a conversation when MJ became available meant I was able to switch. The weight loss speed tripled for me.

please contact whoever you are with and see if you can swap meds.

I think it's fair to say that Wegovy is not working for you, it doesn't for everyone. In your shoes I would swap.

ok interesting - thank you. Does anyone know if I'll need a break in between or I can just start Mounjaro? (from the beginning I'd assume).

I recently changed from Wegovy to Mounjaro. I was advised that I needed four clear weeks between stopping W and starting M.

I swapped straight over… was on 2.4mg of wegovy and went to 2x 5mg (ie 10mg) of MJ (the higher dose pens weren’t available). I am under a clinic run directly by a consultant endocrinologist, though.

I don't know about weight loss injections, so maybe I shouldn't comment. But from your post it sounds like it's your obsessive/compulsive thoughts about food and dieting that seem to be causing the problem, rather than the injections themselves? 12 pounds in 20 weeks sounds like good steady progress to me, and the same as you would get if dieting yourself sucessfully. Would the overthinking problem still not be there if you switched to a different injection? Anyway good luck with whatever you decide to do and well done on the weight loss.

Switch to mj for sure. If it's working well all that food noise will go.

Same here been on it for 20 weeks and feel rotten very flu like and not moved a jot in weight and appetite still the same. Headaches getting worse with migraines sparkles not usual for me. Wondering if I doing damage whilst it’s not working. I’m waiting for a call back from my prescriber doctor

I have been on Wegovy (as Ozempic) for the last couple of months and am starting to feel this way too. I've not been a big overeater for a long time now (at least the last couple of years) although I have remained overweight, with type 2 diabetes and some other medical issues related to thyroid.

For me nothing has really changed regarding the food noise, which reduced naturally over the last couple of years but is still there at the lower level.. Maybe it will reduce further, but I am not holding my breath.

I'm wondering whether my prescribing doctor might agree to let me try Mounjaro instead as I believe it becomes available on the NHS in April 2025. Otherwise, I will probably ask to return to my previous treatment, which had just seemed to start yielding some much needed results before I moved onto the Wegovy.