Weird mounjaro side effect

[Eminybob]

Has anyone else found that since being on MJ they are particularly sensitive to chilli and spicy foods?

I have found myself having gone off a lot of previously favourite foods, I guess for obvious reasons. For example seafood makes me feel nauseous now, I used to love a prawn. And bread, it just tastes of nothing.

But I've had an otherwise lovely veggie lasagne ruined for me by a tiny amount of chilli flakes which previously wouldn't even have been noticed. DH couldn't taste it at all but it was all I could taste.

I can't eat a curry these days either, even a mild one.

Yes, I can only eat blandly now.

I can't taste Diet Coke anymore

I am the opposite. I am really enjoying very spicy foods and not so much bland foods.

Sad times 😢

So funny you say this, I used to be a proper Diet Coke addict. Could drink bottles and bottles. Now completely unbothered and struggle to get through a can.

Yes. Spicy food now upsets my tummy and causes my Lichen Sclerosus to flair up.

I'm not loving the bland foods either. Struggling to find a happy medium though!

I'm off sugar and sweet tasting stuff for the first time ever. It's absolutely wild. I'd eat chocolate and candy daily before, big bags of haribo or a tube of Millions every day plus a triple bounty or somethint. Used to love a hot chocolate. Now it just does nothing for me. Aside from chocolate and sweets, one of the biggest issues I had with binges was buying stuff from bakeries; would think nothing of having 3 donuts from a bag or 2 pain au chocolates back-to-back. Haven't done this in months.

Weirdly I am able to eat hotter foods than before. Used to hate any heat at all 🌶

Pepsi max tastes awful, bland food usually unappealing.

Attracted more to fresh veg/fruit/meat/fish than before. Spices no change, still enjoy the warmth of chilli but not too hot.

I've always been a wimp when it comes to spice but have recently started adding Aleppo pepper flakes to all sorts of dishes. They are sort of half way between spicy and bland, so perhaps some of the people missing their hot spices would be able to tolerate them?

Me too. My desire for things with lots of fat and sugar has vanished and been replaced with a real urge for strong flavours and good protein. I know I won't be eating large volumes so it seems to make sense to pack in as much flavour as I can into the things I am eating.

I had it with coffee for a couple of weeks. It tasted completely different - spicy and with lots of different notes really pronounced. It's passed again now and coffee just tastes like coffee again.

I had pizza last night, maybe quarter of base and had mainly the toppings and cheese off it, worse decision ever, several trips to loo and very gurgly tummy this morning, i think it was the cheese as ive had maybe 10% of the amount i used to have before mj and not reacted like thos before in 4 months. Im on day 8 of 7.5mg, delaying it a day as had a work meal tomorrow and didn't want to be super suppressed. Other than that sugar tastes super sweet to me. I'm OK on spicy food, can surprisingly tolerate more now, it used to trigger my IBS-D, no more now

Weird isn't it? I guess not surprising though, the drug affects appetite so of course it's going to do things to put us off certain foods.

I've totally gone off bars of chocolate , chocolate biscuits. That was always my go to snack .Ice cream now lasts weeks as have odd scoop rather than entire tub in one sitting .
Sadly still like a chewy sweet but only have a handful and don't beat myself up about it.
Have gone from having coffee maybe once every couple of months to daily and love the smell of it.
Also dh when shopping yesterday noted that our shopping basket was really healthy, full of fruit and veg and no snacks .I hadn't really noticed till that point.