Starting Wegovy this week

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Brand new waiting for 0.25ml wegovy to be delivered today and will start it tomorrow.

i currently weigh 14’7 at 5’6 and would love to lose 4 stone!

anyone else brand new to wegovy and looking for a buddy/chat?

Thanks

I mean a half dose from my 1mg pen obv.

Yes, that's common. I hardly drink anymore. I don't want to and feel really sick the next day.

@anoldcharter one of the best things about Wegovy has been my reduced alcohol consumption, almost worth taking it just for that!

The alcohol always leads on to rubbish snacking :(

that's really interesting @Annwithout and @AhBiscuits i didn't expect it to affect alcohol consumption like that and yes, definitely helps cutting out the snacks to go with the wine 😳

Yes you can overdose - I did accidentally. It was my first 0.25 pen. I was expecting to see a yellow cartridge in the pen but I never did so kept on trying it. I had been watching YouTube videos on how to take it but it was US videos and it must be a different colour cartridge over there. Anyway I had no unpleasant side effects other than burps. I forgot to eat for a day so I know it definitely worked.
I called Boots online doc as I was worried and was advised not to take any more for a month and they then insisted I start again on 0.25. Thing is I’ve had constipation on the .25 and .5 dose, which I never had when I ended up taking the full pen. I’m due to start on 1mg next week but not sure due to the constipation every week.
I did however lose 10lb when I mistakenly took much.

How did you overdose ? Did you just keep winding the pen back up ?

I've mentioned it before but I recommend Lepicol for constipation @Ylm189
I take it days 4-7, which is when constipation kicks in for me. I take 2 teaspoon stirred into about 150ml of water then neck another cup of water first thing. It has solved the issue for me, even though taking it is unpleasant 😑

I never feel it tbh. The first thing I knew was the liquid was going everywhere but not in me! Unfortunately an expensive mistake, I will not be doing that again!

I’m a long time reader of this thread and I would like to become part of this discussion
I’ve taken my first dose of .25 today
I have put on 3stn due to an injury , over eating whilst off my feet and l cannot get motivated to lose this weight using diet and exercise
Thank you for all your contributions
It has been very helpful in getting the confidence to order and begin

@witte I ate four chocolate biscuits on Saturday, my first slip up too, although it has been less than two weeks! Then my period stopped on Saturday night and started again this morning. Very odd.

I've just noticed the thread is getting full, will we be starting a new one?

Editing to say I don't think the biscuits are to blame for the random bleeding, obviously 😆

Come on in @doodles55

Yes let's have a new thread.
Or do we all jump on the similarly named one and fill that before starting a Wegovy megathread?

@AhBiscuits I'd be keen if someone could start a new "continuing on wegovy" type thread for those who are already on it. I find updates from regulars on the thread are motivating and there are groups of us on the same dose and moving up at the same time etc

In other news I'm supposed to move up to 1.7mg soon, but am tempted for the first time to stay on 1mg for a second month because the constipation is getting worse each increased dose.

OK.
I think there's only about 10 posts left on this one so set up another ready.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight_loss_chat/4985875-continuing-wegovy-thread-2

If it helps I've eaten chocolate most days since starting and still down 17 pounds in 8 weeks!

I finally did it! Injected my first 0.25 this morning.

It's been a long time coming. I decided I would do this back in September, but put it off as I transferred to a new role at work and needed to concentrate on that. After birthday and Christmas bashes, I had some time off at Christmas which I thought would be an ideal time to start. Then I got asked to work, then on my one day off my boyfriend decided to bring his laptop over and work from my house, then I got a UTI and was on antibiotics so figured I should wait until I was well! It was getting ridiculous, I had a couple of pens ready in the fridge and really needed to start.

So far, I feel no different, but it is early days. I'm glad I read all these threads as, like everyone says, the injection is so painless you wonder if anything went in at all.

I have various plans of how I'm going to do this - I've over-thought it completely - but it will all depend on how I respond.

It's been great to read everyone's experiences. Here's hoping I can get out of the obese and overweight categories and go back to the healthy weight I was when I was forty. Emotional eating has been my downfall, so fingers crossed Wegovy will allow me to overcome that.

Good luck @Striving4Better !

I took my first yesterday . So far so good although didn’t sleep well last night

Is anyone watching bbc one it’s all about wegovy

I've just tuned in. This isn't sounding good?

@Izzieloo and @OhpoorMe what programme was that? Think I missed it? What were they saying?

It's on bbc1 now. A panorama

One thing I've learned is that I've been saying wegovy wrong!

No not good I suppose any pills come with side effects

A lot of it was about how it should be more available on the NHS.
On the whole, nothing I didn't know.