Yucky tummy

[Batgin]

So I'm on week 2 of 5mg. For half the week after the injection I get a sore tummy, loose stools and awful gas, including sulphur burps.

It's really getting me down and I'm considering stopping because of the side effects.

Does anyone else get these? How do you manage them?

How did you find 2.5 mg?

If you had good suppression at the lower dose and no side effects I would look at reducing the dose.

2.5 I managed with. Still had some side effects, mainly light nausea and sulphur burps, but no wind or loose stools.

I have a 5mg Pen, could I take a half dose?

I've been on 5mg for 7 weeks now and I've resorted to working from my bed today as I'm in so much pain with my tummy and gas. I go through waves of being absolutely fine for a week or two then an 'attack' like this. Hope you feel better soon. I'm sticking with it until my pens run out (early March) as I am half way there to my target and if it means a few uncomfy days then I'll put up with it!

You've come this far so wanted to try it.. I would stick with it, but go back to 2.5 as you were ok on that.. give your body more time to get used to it..

Just do 30 clicks of your 5mg pen for a 2.5 dose and try that. Means you might waste some as you should only use it for 30 days, but some people would go over the 30 days. Then maybe buy another 2.5 pen for another 5 weeks at that strength before trying to go up again.

I’m afraid I carried on getting these side effects even taking Colpermin, drinking mint tea, etc.
I cut my dose lower and lower but never managed to find a sweet spot that gave me suppression at the same time as minimal / manageable side effects. I gave up around the 7 week mark.

I would reduce your dose for a bit before giving up just yet.
I experienced this after a few weeks of 10mg and reducing down to 7.5 has sorted it for me, so I'll be sticking with this dose.

Thank you all! Good to hear others experiences! The 2.5 was working for me, so will try reducing my dose for a bit.

The manufacturers say the optimal dose is the dose below that which you can’t tolerate. Which is not something I like as it means you need to go up, try , suffer then come back down. Of course if you’re still getting full benefits you shouldn’t move up. But how do you know that when buying a pen.

when I took my first 5 I was dog rough. I was less rough the second week, but still rough, week 3 and 4, totally fine. And now I’m on my first 7,5 and totally fine.

so of course at the back of my mind I’m thinking about the ten…it’s a hard decision to make. Sounds simple but it’s not.

I know what you mean.
After 6 months I thought I knew what I was doing but no, still got to figure out the best dose to take.

I've been fine but I have IBS and it's reduced those symptoms back to the same as "normal" non-ibs person so I think with the slowing down of stomach emptying, it's been a godsend for me.

I played about with my diet and get little to no side effects now, have you checked what and when you're eating?

I was good on 2.5 with no side effects but very little suppression so I moved up to 3.75 and felt awful so went back down to 2.5 for a week then did 40 clicks from a 5mg pen which I think is about 3.3 ish, then I upped to 45 clicks and have had 2 really bad days again so going back down to 40 clicks this week, debating 30 clicks until Xmas is over as I really don't want to spend Xmas on the loo. It's horrific. And to top it off I've stopped losing weight over the last 3 weeks or so, it doubly annoying.