Ozempic chat - not for discussion about supply issues

[HolidayHappy123]

Hello fellow Ozempic takers

The existing chats are now mainly focusing on supply issues which I understand people are worried about. But it's making hard to discuss the actual impact of Ozempic so I hope no one minds me starting a new thread thread for that.

I've just had the worst night of my life. After 10 weeks side effect free including 2 weeks at 1mg, I spent yesterday feeling pretty icky with sulphur burps then last night the D&V started the likes of which I have never experienced before. I lost 4lbs in 6 hours!!

I finally managed to keep some Imodium down so hopefully the worst is over.

Question is, do I keep taking the OZ at 1mg and hope for the best? Drop back to 0.5mg and see what happens (my weight was pretty stagnant at that dose) or give it up altogether on the basis that I couldn't function long term with that level of D&V.

I'm due to take a 12 hour flight this time next week and I can only be thankful that it happened this week and not next.

Any thoughts on what I should do?

I was fine on it until I went up to 0.5 and then suffered the way you describe.

I've discovered that I need to be extra careful with what I eat and drink in the couple of days after I inject - otherwise I get D&V. So it's made me extra mindful!

I think if I were you I'd go up to 0.75 and see how I go on that.

I titrated from .5 to .75 and the side effects remained about the same.

I went off ozempic about ten days ago and today the hunger has really begun. Looking forward to restarting oz on Sunday. I have some weird kidney function issues and the dr wants to rule ozempic out as the cause. I am adamant it can't be the ozempic.

Good idea for this thread.

Sounds like a tummy bug, nothing to do with the ozempic

Are you sure it was Ozempic? What had you eaten?

For everyone saying are you sure it was the meds, this happened to me - and still does if I have any vaguely rich food within a couple of days of the injection. 4 times in fact, over 7 weeks.

This might be too much information, but before my supply ran out and( I now can’t get any more) I had some incidents of faecal incontinence. Yuck! Not happened since I have had to stop. Also had chronic constipation intermittently. This was my only bad effect and I eventually just stuck with the smallest dose.

I'm still suffering so think it must have been a bug but I just don't know, I've barely been able to eat all week.

I'm scared to take my next dose which was due today as have a 10 hour flight on Tuesday. I may take a half dose when I get to California.

I’m the opposite. I’ve gone to 0.75 to eek out my pen (but still increase to get over a plateau) and I’m so bunged up it’s uncomfortable.