Anyone starting Wegovy in June ?

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I did my first jab on 27 May and am 3.5 pounds down … would love to chat if anyone else is starting around now

Thanks both. I am definitely feeling ‘snackish’ for the first time in 5 weeks (tomorrow will be my 6th dose, I’m now on my 2nd pen of 0.25). I’m planning on giving it another week but if effects are wearing off, both in terms of food noise and not losing, I’ll see if I can go up to 0.5 …

@joyous- I counted clicks to go from 0.25 to 0.3 and now 0.4 … it worked for me in not having side effects

my weight loss has been very slow (a pound a week) but I can see it’s coming off my waist …

I plan to go up to 0.5 next week

I read as well that it's not officially a stall until it's a month with no weight loss. I don't know if that helps you @JoyousAsOtters but I too have had little to no movement on the scales for the past week+ and it's helped me stay in perspective.

I'm finding a funny pattern though, that I have no food noise (absolute miracle for me and so worth the cost) but I can still eat past fullness if I want to once I'm actually sat there eating. It's very uncomfortable mind you, but I can and have done it a few times. Got to keep an eye on that.

Happy to report that the pound I went up has come off again, as well as another!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I tend to actually eat less on the weekends as we are so busy, but then I feel fatigued as I haven't eaten enough. Trying to have a bigger lunch this Saturday and see if that improves things.

@Astravanga- well done on another pound off

ive re-ordered and decided to get a 1mg pen, will see how I get on over the next few weeks

Since this is my 7th week on wegovy the hair loss question I asked about a week ago up the nose was because I kept rubbing my nose from hay fever 🤦🏻‍♀️ I'm a worry wort and dramatic. I haven't weighed myself today as Aunt flo showed and im quite bloated so I'm waiting till the weekend. I've made a blunder I ordered a (large) fleece for work back in March not realizing id be going on this journey and it's massive 😂 I can't order another till next year March but I'll be warm standing on the yard come winter I guess, at least I know the weight is dropping off slowly but nicely.

@Emowoman90 I did think the nose hairs falling out was a bit weird! Glad it’s not actual hair loss from the Wegovy.

I spot these weird things and go all dramatic over it all 😂

@Emowoman90 your nose alopecia did give me a laugh, so thanks for that!

Got my new pen delivered and due my first 0.5 dose tomorrow. Happy to be going up a dose. Most side effects have died off now, so it will be interesting to see if they come back with the dose increase.

@TerrorAustralisI didn’t get any side effects when I went up to 0.5 mg last week.

So this is my six week weight in and it's the first week where I haven't lost anything. I also haven't had a bowel movement for 5 days so that may have something to do with it!
I've lost 14lb in total so pleased with that.
I do need to order my next pen soon and need to decide what to do. I'm still on 0.25 and I'm tempted to stay on that. It seems to be working, and I'm scared I may get even more bunged up if I go up to 0.5. I'm also going on holiday the day I would start a new pen and I'm not sure that would be the best time to go up either. Just not sure what to do.
I hope everyone else getting on fine.

I would stay on the lower dose for as long as possible. It’s cheaper for a start. Plus the clinical trials moved everyone up a dose every four weeks just so that everybody had the same treatment. Some people reach their weight goal on the lowest dose; others find that weight loss stalls and they need to move up a dose to get results. Your body does adapt to the medication over time so, what we don’t want, is to already be on the highest dose and have the food noise come back. I moved up to 0.5 mg on my third lot of injections because I felt that the summer might be a good time for me to really work on my diet when I’m not rushing about trying to get my kids to clubs etc. But I was still losing on 0.25 mg so maybe it wasn’t necessary to move up.

@blibblibs: this happened to me early on (not going for a few days). Fybogel and lots of water sorted things out for me

@blibblibs: I would order a 0.5mg pen and count clicks to get out 0.25 - as it’s working for you

Thus means you could stay on a lower dose, & gradually increase if you need to vs doubling to 0.5. I’m on 0.4 for example and have bought a 1mg pen to go up to 0.5mg for the next month or 2

Buying a higher dose pen & counting out a lower dose dose is cheaper and means you are not stuck for a whole month if you feel you need to up your dose

Can you buy extra needles for that? You have up to 42 days to use the pen so you could theoretically get seven weeks of injections out of one pen.

I had one week where I didnt lose but have lost 2lbs each week since so dont worry too much about that. I would stick if its working, I went up to 0.5 last time with no issues, but this time I have decided to stick rather than go up to 1.0 as the food noise is still gone, and I am feeling fuller. I am keeping 1.0 in reserve for if I start to struggle. I started off wanting to lose a bit over 2 stone and I am half way now, so would rather stay on 0.5 if I can.

Hello Juneys! Well this has been the second week of almost no loss so I’ve requested to go up a level to 0.5, got approved straight away. I’ve also ordered a few extra needles because I’ve got 2 x 0.25 doses left in my current pen. I could just do double dose tomorrow but I’m thinking of click counting for a couple of weeks to stagger the increase. Anyone know if I’m right - 37 clicks is one dose I think? So 55 clicks should be about 0.375 dose?

If anyone isn’t sure about moving up a dose, I would say don’t! I did my second 0.5 mg dose on Tuesday and I’m barely able to eat now. Thirst is all but gone as well. I can’t afford to lose muscle mass. It’s gone 4 o’clock and I haven’t had anything since breakfast apart from 30g salted peanuts that I had to make myself eat. I’m going to try and drink a pint of water and get something else to eat now.

Yes I think what I've generally read is that if you're losing weight on a dose (even slowly) then stay on it.

Not gospel, just what I've read.

Haven't weighed this week as it's been parties and crazy hours, so will let things settle with a few days of normal food and then see what's going on. Headed into my seventh week on Wegovy!

My weight loss had slowed to a quarter of a pound a week which got me to move up a dose but I wish I hadn’t, now. I’m going to focus on eating protein every few hours through the day. I’m on holiday next week but, when I get back, I’ll make sure I’m doing some resistance training.

I’m on holiday at the moment and eating what I fancy but much less than I would normally do. Hoping the scales won’t be too unkind when I weigh next week. I brought my Wegovy and injected as normal.
My husband is complaining I’m not getting my money’s worth out of the food!

I'm moving up to 0.5 next month, I have been on Wegovy since 13th June and have lost 7.5kg in total - but only 0.4kg last week, and I'm starting to feel hungry all the time. I'm going on holiday at the end of September and really want to be significantly lighter by then. My biggest downfall is wine - empty calories, I know. However, onwards and downwards!

Ok, so far so good with the in between dose (0.375). I def got a bit more suppression and Grim Taste is back. Will keep monitoring for side effects and see how weigh in goes on Thurs. Good luck everyone.

Why do you wish you hadn’t moved up a dose? Side effects?

Ive Just done my 4th 0.5 jab. Lost 15lb total but I can't see any difference at all and my clothes feel exactly the same 😢. Im sticking with 0.5 cos got a busy few weeks and don't want extra side effects. Im losing on average 2lb a week which research tells me is good. I just need to be more patient!