Has the weight loss injections board become less supportive recently?

[Bipaloss]

I’m just gonna put it out there!

when first started MJ in March 25 this section MN was a support line .also there were were 1000’s of people posting and 100’s of threads a day. Majority very encouraging and supportive

recently I have noticed that engagement have reduced , much less comments but loads of trolls or negativity

if you are not on WLI/pills , and don’t have anything positive or constructive feedback to say why comment, unless it’s bots?

it’s making people like myself discouraged to comment or even login

so I encourage everyone no matter where you are in your journey , please go back to support and avoid the negativity and derogatory comments , so that we all can remain supportive wherever we are in our journey

I've only been on WLI and this board for 6 months but I love it. The group for the month I started is great, and a couple of other ongoing threads too. Really feel cheered on.

Maybe because they want to find out about it for a time in the future when they can afford it. And a lot of people are interested in the meds for non-weight loss reasons, and as they're not yet licensed for other conditions, they maybe want to hear about positive "side effects" like joint pain/bowel issues.

I'm part of a starter group 'started in April', 'Started in May' etc and have found it very supportive- far more than I expected. I have no idea what it was like a year ago.

Our group are almost at the end of our 2nd thread. The only issue several of us had, was someone claiming to be from an earlier group trying to get us to use their promotion code.

I find it very supportive, there’s loads of threads that get updated a lot every day.

There was one thread a week or so ago where the OP asked a question and it seemed to fill up with people who aren't on WLI and were quite negative, telling the OP just to exercise and eat less. That's unusual though, I think.

I haven’t noticed any unsupportive thread (asides from the obvious illegal medication ones and rightly so), do you have examples?

I think one thing that might have changed since you and I started is the fragmentation of what each of us is on. When we started almost everyone was taking mounjaro because, well, why not? It was better and the same price.

Then came the big price hike, which sent a lot of people to Wegovy, and now there's two different pill options. So you've got people spread across 4 different versions of the meds.

I think the older starter threads like ours are inevitably quieter, but the new starter ones look pretty busy to me.

Oddly enough, I actually I think the EatLessMoveMore brigade appear here less frequently than they did when I started. 😁

I do feel there has been an increase in posts by people who aren’t actually on WLIs

I actually I think the EatLessMoveMore brigade appear here less frequently than they did when I started.

@GiveMeWordGames yes, it has been a while since I noticed one! Felt almost daily the first year after the medications became widely available!

Even the long running support threads got the naysayers and doom mongers posting in those days, lots of drive-by plopping of negative nasty posts.

I think overall it seems to me like there’s less of those types of posts. Also, there were a few repeat offenders who seemed to always seek out threads and comment the same ill informed and unpleasant posts. They seem to have disappeared recently.