A question for long term users who had bad side effects

[wheretheheckissummer]

Hi All I’m just looking to pick some brains. I took my very first dose on Saturday morning. I ate porridge with banana, raspberries and blueberries for brunch, then for tea had ham and boiled egg salad. Felt a bit queasy and burping a bit but ok. Sunday had the same breakfast and steak, 1/2 jacket potato with 20g cheese, courgette, and aubergine and a teaspoon peppercorn sauce, oh and gallons of water.

Went to bed and woke up at 12ish needing the loo and spent the next 6 1/2 hours basically on the loo. So so ill.

My question is, to those that have had a similar experience after the first jab, does it get better? Has it happened since? Luckily I don’t work Mondays so didn’t need to take sick leave but if it is going to carry on like this I’m gonna have to knock it on the head. I’ve already decided to give it another week and see how it goes but just looking for others experiences.

On the loo with diarrhoea or vomiting?

For me the side effects eased off when I started 7.5mg and I realised certain foods would trigger an upset stomach. Saying that 15mg floored me completely for the first few weeks which was a shock after not having any issues for a long time.

It does get easier and the side effects do go away for most people. I found the Mounjaro subs on Reddit very useful for information on all types of side effects.

Sounds like you reacted to what you ate. Cheese is pretty high in fat and weirdly I can't eat a jacket potato.

It is your body getting used to the medication and it will settle down but I'd recommend reviewing what you eat and cut high fat and sugar stuff and eat clean around injection day. By day 5 I can eat more of a variety but have plain chicken or fish on the days around jab.

Diarrhoea

Oh that sounds like a nightmare.

The only thing I can think is that you're on day 3.... It's highest peak.
That doesn't help when it floors you. I don't know what to suggest, I'd probably give up!

I was the opposite with constipation but I was never ill until 7.5 that
I vomited every week I took that jab. It might have only been once a week but it came from nowhere, no time to get to bathroom!
I was terrified of moving up to 10 and only really did it because I was changing supplier and I honestly didn't know what to do...
10 is like a dream compared to 7.5! I've stayed on it for a second month now just to feel like I am realigning.
I'm not losing though so I feel like next time I'll move up to 12.5. It worries me though.

I'm fortunate in that I can stay in bed all day if needed.

I wish you well. WELL! Poor you, eat plain and simple and diarolyte (??) I know what I mean. The normal thing they give you to replenish salts and fluids.

Thanks all, a bit of a mixed bag, everyone so different. I will stick at it for now and see how I go. Feel much much better today

Steak and cheese will be the culprits. Red meat is difficult to digest normally let alone when the stomach has been slowed down and the meat is sat there for a lot longer and fatty, greasy foods like cheese are common triggers also for GI symptoms