WEGOVY January starters thread...

[katem98]

Hi!

Any interest in a Wegovy only thread? There are lots of threads but must of the posters seem to be on Mounjaro.

Be nice to have a smaller group of us who are on Wegovy so that the doses are more relevant?😊

Wow, that's amazing! What dose are you on now?

Have you been careful with your diet? I've struggled to stay away from the carbs.

cut carbs out as much as I can tbh, have the odd treats here and there but my doet is exactly the same as it was when I was trying to lose weight before the jabs and not losing anything! Just shows the older you get the hard it is to shift the bloody thing

Hi all, still here. Just took the final dose from my second pen (0.5mg) and will go up to 1mg next weekend. I have lost 10.5lbs in seven weeks, over 12lbs since 1 Jan. I am delighted with that, especially as still minimal side effects and it's clearly working. In January, on various dates, I bought four packets of biscuits. Three of them are unopened and I still haven't finished the other!

Hello, I’m a latecomer to this thread, but would love to join please! I started on Wegovy in mid-February and have lost just over 5kg so far. I am really happy with that, but the last few days have had pretty bad side effects (mostly nausea and diarrhoea (sorry!)). I’m going to reduce the dose and see how I go on that. I’m having an internal battle between wanting - and needing - to lose weight and generally feeling pretty rubbish. But then I remember I was feeling rubbish before I started, with high blood sugar levels, feeling exhausted all the time, etc. This is just a different rubbish!

Has anyone taken a pause when you’ve gone on holiday? I’m going on a big holiday in 4 weeks’ time and want to enjoy the food, a few drinks, etc. I know that usually on holiday I actually eat pretty well - no snacking - and exercise more.

That's great progress @ClarabelleRose 👏🏻

I would recommend staying at a stable dose rather than coming off altogether during your holiday.

I too get side effects - mostly nausea and heartburn. It's like pregnancy all over again! I do get the odd 2 days of an upset stomach, usually mid-injection -week, so can't tell if bugs or a side effect.

But the scales are going down so I'm keeping going. I am doing an extra 4 weeks at 0.25, and I can imagine doing the same at 0.5.

Hello
I started Wegovy on the 4th Feb. Any chance I can join you guys??

Shadow

Good evening all! Hope you are all still (for the most part!), getting on well with the jabs. Some really inspiring stories on here. I'm going to start mine once I get paid end of March. Can't wait!

Bit nervous about getting loose skin 😬 But figured it wasn't too bad, after having ginormous babies, so presumably won't be terrible this time around (if it works and I lose). Moisturiserising loads in preparation, round my tummy, hips and bum, with coconut oil. Thought it can't hurt, and might help!

The biscuit thing is, indeed, a wild concept 😶

I’m 8 weeks in and lost just over a stone! Definitely eating much more this week or so though so think I need to increase dose, even though I wasn’t going too

I'm about to step up from 0.25mg to 0.5mg. I've lost 3.5kg.

Is that over 1 month then?

That's amazing well done! Was that all on 0.25?

Morning! I’m very happy - 17lbs down in 7 weeks. I would ideally like to lose the same again and then maintain/tone up. I’ve completely changed my diet as I’ve been so determined to stick this out. If I ate crap food, then I was getting horrid side effects. So I stopped doing that and now I’m mostly feeling great.

A massive positive is that I had some blood tests recently. My blood sugars are at the lowest level that they’ve been in 5 years or more, my cholesterol is way down & normal, my blood pressure is normal. The swelling in my ankles has disappeared. I am feeling so much better…this really is one of the best investments I’ve ever made!

Hello I’ve just read this full thread. I have a lot of weight to lose 10+ stone. I have joined a nhs weight loss management program and they offer wegovy in the plan, I’m hoping to get on it after I’ve got started in the program so was just reading up experiences on it. This thread is very inspiring and it’s good to know it’s not on MJ that is successful for people

Hey Jan Gang,

Has anyone moved up to 10mg?

From our cohort, this would be anyone who has started in the first half of Jan and has dose escalated every 4 weeks.

I am dithering - don't know if I should go for my first repeat and stick at 7.5mg - it is going great, no side effects, great suppression, no food noise and okay loss. Just conscious that can plateau and I'll be annoyed if it happens 1 or 2 injections in when I have dose escalated successfully to date...!

If it ain't broke don't fix it?

I've been moved off it now and on to MJ just as I was meant to move up to that dose, I've had a bad psosiaris flare up and doctor thinks it's something in the wegovy unfortunately

@KhakiCat I think you're asking about mounjaro doses? Most on this thread are on Wegovy. I started on 0.5mg in January and used two pens before moving to 1mg.

Last week I had a really gassy tummy and frequent unpleasant trips to the toilet, and we were away for three nights (with the upset tummy!) so I wasn't at home to take my usual Sat morning dose. Because the tummy hasn't quite settled, I have decided to leave the next dose to the coming Saturday so I will have a two week gap. I might only take 0.5mg, but the first week I had on 1mg I was absolutely fine, so no idea if the two are linked, or not.

Hello! Just after some advice… started on Wegovy 2 weeks ago, after swapping from Mountjaro as I have heart issues and the MJ affected those.
So started Wegovy on 1mg as advised by my prescriber. No heart issues but oh my lord I have had terrible side effects! Sickness, diarrhoea, literally struggling to eat anything and what I do comes back up again 😩
I feel like absolute death and spending every minute I’m not working on the sofa. It’s like extreme morning sickness.
I’ve decided to not take my next injection on Monday. Let it get out of my system and start again at the beginning of May on 0.25mg.
Bit cross with my prescriber for starting me on 1mg dose as it’s clearly too high as a starting dose.
Has anyone else had these terrible side effects? Hoping they wear off as the injection does…

Oh, but on the plus side I’ve lost 7lb in 10 days! 🙌

Hi everyone! I’ve lost 10lbs so far on Wegovy, and I’m now staying on a dose of 1mg as I don’t feel the need to move on while it is working at this level (also the next stage is pretty expensive)!

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I started Wegovy in January. I have lost 8ibs, thought I thought I would see a bigger loss. I am currently on the 1mg dose.
Just wondering if I should change to Mounjaro, though I haven’t researched this yet. Has anyone else considered this or changed to mounjaro?

Hi @Birdy65 I also started in January (17th) and I have lost more than that, around 16lbs. I haven't considered changing to Mounjaro, but if you're not feeling that Wegovy is effective, perhaps start with considering your food intake and whether it is possible that you aren't creating enough of a deficit to lost more.

13lb gone and, far more importantly, the urge to binge has gone.

I lost a lot of wegovy just over 2 stone, but I've changed dur to having a flare up of my psosiaris which my doctor thinks was from something in the wegovy! losing a lot more on MJ than wegovy but weight loss wasn't a problem on it anyway for me.

Started feb and 1st 11 down. I've been so lucky to not suffer with any side effects however this past week I've had chronic diarrhoea and I've not been able to go to work. Has anyone else had this? I'm not sure if it's just a bug. Next Monday I'm due to go up to 1.7 and have the pen already but I'm thinking I might not administer the full dose as it's working so well.

not on wegovy but ozempic which is same drug. started today properly on 0.25mg. was supposed to be last week but buggered the injection and only injected probably about 0.4mg 🤭(i have a 1mg pen so have to count the clicks)

not really eaten since the injection. not sure if it’s a placebo effect but just don’t feel hungry. i do have a head ache though and a little queasy