Any mental heath side affects with injections?

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I’ve been toying with trying the weight loss injections for a while now, really 40s and struggling to shift a bit of weight like I’ve never known before.
My concern is the side affects, in particular anything physiological - has anyone experienced a change in mood or anything with using them? I already struggle a bit with MH

I can’t comment personally but there have been a few threads on this if you do an advanced search. Hope they help.

No side effects here, psychological or otherwise. Apart from 26 kilo weight loss of course.

Yes, ive been better. I can only speak for myself so you should speak to any provider. But I was suffering with quite bad anxiety, now pretty much gone. I've always been emotional eating, now in control. Am peri menopause and suffered from rage, depressive spouts, low moods- still am but it's improved, not got worse.

Yes - a few people get a severe anxiety worsening reaction. Others find anxiety improves.
It gave me panic attacks so I stopped after 3 weeks :(

A lot better, but that’s to be expected, when you lose weight, and have more energy you do usually feel mentally better than when you did obese and sluggish and often hating on yourself.

in addition as my blood sugar is stabilised I have lost the anxious jittery feeling,

Personally I haven't, but it is a known side effects some people get, so probably worth discussing with a health care provider before you make a decision.

I'm a week in so not really able to give any evidence yet but my daughters been reading a lot and said there are studies to say that GLP-1s can regulate mood and help anxiety.

On the flip side it makes some people anxious!

There are often side effects around nausea or constopation/diahhrea and I imagine it takes a while to settle too.

I do know that I will be a lot less anxious when I am not morbidly obese thoughh!! Or at least it will be a real source of anxiety gone. (I will have skin but if I have mobility that is good)

Yes.. for the better!

Anecdotally the people who I have seen post about getting anxiety and panic attacks already suffered this, before the jabs, even if in a small way, taking the jabs can make it worse for them. Not sure if it’s the act of injecting or a new medication , or the med itself. Those who do not suffer from this tend not to. Again, that’s not a blanket rule, and some people fall into other categories.

Hmm - I do have a tendancy that way (as do many who are morbidly obese I'd guess) but I'm hoping it will help even the keel in due course.

It's helped my anxiety quite a lot. I'm only 3 weeks in though so will see if it holds.

I have name changed for this.

i have been taking MJ for a couple of months now.

For the past few years I have thought about my death increasingly more.
Latterly every hour of every day.
I am not strong enough to commit suicide, however I didn’t want to be alive.

please note, that’s past tense… I didn’t want to be alive!

Since starting MJ, I am less anxious and haven’t thought about my death at all.
Other aspects of my life have not changed. It’s still the same shit, just a different day. But I have got a spring in my step and I feel more positive.

I suffered quite severe panic attacks in the evening two days in a row in my first week - properly 'I'm dying' feeling, racing thoughts, chest hurting, heart going a million miles an hour, couldn't calm down. The second night wasn't as awful because once I had a read and realised it was a potential side effect, it felt less scary. I'm now in my third week and it hasn't happened again, and hopefully it won't :)

Otherwise I would say my mood was the same or better.

I found I was severely depressed on day 2 after injecting. It happened every week like clockwork for the first two months. On day 3 I would be back to normal but day 2 was horrendous for my mood. Other people have posted similar experiences. The side effects can really vary from person to person. Some get none, some find them too bad to continue, most people are in between. You only find out where you are on the scale by trying the injections.

When I did keto I got very depressed. I have quite a slow thyroid and the lack of carbs slowed it to a crawl, with depression as a side-effect. On MJ I have been careful to eat moderate carbs along with high protein, and depression hasn't been an issue at all.

Unfortunately severe anxiety in the first week - really bad panic attack and heart palpitations. I've had intrusive thoughts, and waking up having panic attacks too. There's sadly a fb group with thousands of people who experienced something similar. Sadly I think there's a small percentage of people who do get anxiety as a side effect.
For what it's worth I cut the dose in half and it helped a lot. Think the first week was just too much for my body to handle.

I’m so sorry you felt like that and so glad you’re feeling more positive now 🙏