Anyone else terrified about serious side effects?

[Y0gamummy]

Started WLI (mounjaro) 1.5 weeks ago. Suppression has been strong, lost 4lbs first week, which I'm delighted with. Some gastro side effects but nothing horrendous. However, it's my head that I'm struggling with. Have decided more than once that I'm going to stop because I'm worried about developing serious side effects. I read last night that the risk of pancreatitis is 1 in 100. I thought it was much rarer than that. Lay in bed last night imagining how I would feel if I developed pancreatitis and had to tell my DC it was because I was on WLI. Am I overthinking this?!? Or is this constant negotiation with yourself in your head about whether the jabs are the way to go actually quite common? For context, I started WLI after putting on nearly 3 stone over past 15 years and my weight tipping over into the obese category for the first time. No health conditions other than acid reflux and anemia.

I've just come off Rybelsus tablets (I'm type 2 diabetic).

I'm usually quite gung ho with meds but I had my doubts even before I started taking these.

Honestly, I have felt off colour since day one and my colleagues have even said my moods have changed and I've become anxious and impatient whereas normally I'm happy and usually feel well. I've got a list of issues I've been suffering with since taking them.

I feel hugely relieved to be honest.

@TheRealGoose just ensuring I'm considering all bases. Agree re balancing risks and I also like to do research. However it's not true to say there have been no fatalities, the guidance to doctors in the UK specifically mentions fatal cases of pancreatitis. Do I suffer health anxiety? Not generally but I guess this was a big decision health-wise and I'm still debating it in my head.

It is true, no one has died due to correct usage of the legitimate medication . Of course people have died due to pancreatitis. It is a common enough thing to happen. But that is not directly caused by the medication, it is caused by having gallstones, heavy alcohol use , high levels of blood fats or certain other meds ie diuretics or anti biotics.

its like saying a fat person got diabetes as they took nurofen.

you’re acting like fat people only get pancreatitis if they use a wli. This is not true. At all. Pancreatits is not a new thing and studies have shown there is no increase in the instances of it on people on wli.

as you’re obese you’re at risk of pancreatitis right now. You are not at an increased risk if you take fne medication,

in fact losing weight reduces the risk, which you currently face. Losing weight rapidly would increase your risk, but any sensible person doesn’t do that.

as such if you got pancreatits the conversation with your children would be mummy got this as she is obese, or mummy got this as she wasn’t sensible and lost weight rapidly.

the drugs do not increase your risk. This is proven.

the guidance may co so, because they had to wait to do the study and know for sure, and pancreatits can be triggered by rapid weight loss. It is now proven there is no increase due to the meds,

it is also thought to now protect you. Did you even read the links?

you seem very focused on an increased risk that is proven not to exist, whilst completely ignoring you’re sitting there at risk now.

The highest dose I’ve ever used on Mounjaro was 7.5. I still had to use will power to lose my weight and never lost more than one pound a week on a calorie deficit of 450-500 calories a day.

I was one of the unlucky ones who did get pancreatitis after taking MJ.

My surgeon believed I had underlying gallstones before starting MJ and the rapid weight loss exasperated the stones, causing them to get stuck in my bile duct, causing pancreatitis. The pain is inexplicable to describe, but the cause was weight loss not the drug itself.

2 weeks in hospital and a gallbladder removal, and now 56 pounds down. Do I regret doing MJ? Not at all, who is to say it wouldn't have eventually happened anyway and I am in fact taking wegovy in tablet form to lose my last stone. (Prescription was approved as I stopped taking MJ 2 months before Pancreatitis was diagnosed due to symptoms which I now know were gallstones.)

But if you look up statistics around paracetamol, general anaesthethics, statins etc, you'll find deaths as a result of using them. Every drug carries risks.

I assume you still take paracetamol?

Did you know that right now, scientists are researching the theory that GLP1 slows organ ageing? I think we're only at the beginning of seeing the benefits of the body to these drugs.