Continuing Wegovy - Thread 2

[AhBiscuits]

First thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight_loss_chat/4932431-starting-wegovy-this-week?page=40&reply=132249138

Yeah, it’s definitely a long term drug. I doubt anyone using it for even six months is going to have long term weight loss, never mind three months!

having had to come off without my exit plan or gradually reducing dose, it’s pretty unbearable hunger after it wears off a bit. My stomach rumbles all day despite eating breakfast (never done this since a kid), and I am distractingly hungry with a hunger stomach ache the majority of the time. I think it might be better if you actually change what you’re eating, but if you just rely on eating smaller portions then I imagine anyone would be putting the weight back on pretty quickly. It is harder to just eat ‘normal’ now (around 1500 calories a day) than to diet before the wegovy. This is after I’d been on 1mg and stable for six months which was already wearing off and I was eating fairly normal meals and occasional takeaway without feeling sick.

the ozempic/wegovy trials did show 90% of people put all of the weight back on again, I’m not surprised.

Well a week later... I had two good no appetite days this week, after 1.0 + 9 clicks that were left in my 0.25 pen last Monday. Today I'll do 1.0 and see how much is left in my 0.5 pen (forced stay on 1.0 due to shortages of 1.7).

Scales have finally gone down so now it's 3lbs over 3 weeks. I guess I have to be happy with that.
Started 21st November. Week off for Christmas. After 13 jabs loss = 23 lbs which overall I guess is a good result. BMI down to 31.5, so definitely getting there.
Very tempted to change to Moujaro though 🤔

Been dipping in and out of this and previous thread.

Just injected my first dose... I bought via juniper so hoping the support and programme and digital scale help me stick to this.

I'm the biggest I've ever been and very unfit too.

I've always struggled with my weight, and more so since having children but have always been pretty active. Since hitting perimenopause I only seem to do things at a glacial pace and have low energy... actually exercise is very rare... so I need to get back into that habit.

Hoping the Wegovy will help with evening time which is when I usually give into to "sharing" size packets of crisps/ chocolate & sweets.

Dreading side effects as life is busy but determined this time... weight is out of control.

Starting weight 126.4kg 🙀🙀🙀

I'm mortified.

Just want to celebrate my first stone off!!

I've just finished my first 0.25 pen, so I'm very impressed. Going to try and stick with 0.25 as long as I can, but fear it won't be long until I have to go to 0.5 as I'm starting to feel hungry a tiny bit. I'll see if I can hold off a while though.

That's amazing! Well done you 👏🏻

Good luck @TalkedTooMuchStayedTooLong I hope it works well for you 🙂

Well done @Habbyhadno That's an impressive amount.

@AhBiscuits that's what I'm worried about, that it'll take a while to build up again but I had such a sore stomach yesterday after eating a handful
of crisps that I'm worried about feeling crappy on holiday if I fancy something different.

I think I'll skip the dose and expect it to take me a couple of weeks to be back where I am with it.

What I’ve done last two holidays is taken a lower dose so that I haven’t stopped it completely. Last year we went for two weeks. I was 0.8mg as the time and took a half dose.l morning I went then another half dose half was through. It meant I happily ate and enjoyed my food but still couldn’t gorge on massive portions and wasn’t going cold turkey off it either

I’m on 0.6 mg at the minute and going to stay on it as long as possible until I go to 0.7. I started back on it mid Jan and have lost 10lbs so approx 2lb a week. We’re away on holidays in July and I’d love to have 2.5st gone by then so slow and steady.

I could go higher on the dose and lose more quickly but I follow the advice of my consultant which is balance. This dose curbs my appetite so I can’t pig out on large portions and cuts the food noise so I avoid snacking but I still have an appetite albeit for smaller amounts and still enjoy most foods. I definitely have food aversion for some stuff and I’d struggle to eat more than a piece of chocolate but overall I can stomach most things. I think at the moment I eat like a “normal person”

Interesting, @Hotgirlwinter . Do you have a link to the article?

Well, the diarrhoea has come back with a vengeance. I really thought it was a temporary blip as I'd been fine for 5 days. I've also just bought a 1mg pen which I'm not going to be able to use, although I was intending to split it. Does anyone know how long they keep for once open? Thinking I might be able to split it into 0.25 doses as that level seemed to be ok for me, but obviously it will be open for several weeks if I do that.

I think I'm going to have to fess up to DH as he's getting worried about my three or four nightly visits to the loo.

morning all,

I think I'd agree that 0.5 has been a bit crap compared to 0.25.

I lost 8lbs on 0.25 and 6lbs on 0.5, so while I'm pretty happy with a stone in 2 months, I know that has been slower compared to others (thief of joy I know but hard not to compare), plus the last 2 weeks I have felt more hungry, although I have stuck to 1000-1200 cals a day 😩

Was going to do 2 x 0.75 to eek out the next pen as its so expensive, but I think I'll just go straight to 1mg and see how that goes. here's hoping for a better month on 1mg than 0.5....

Oh no Pushkini I’m sorry you’re struggling again.. how frustrating when you thought you’d turned a corner…
i think the pen would be fine for 8 weeks… I think I read somewhere it’s six weeks from first use but I keep mine in fridge and I would defo go over that…!

@anoldcharter i did two weeks of 0.75 and wish I’d just gone straight to 1.0 now.. you’ve had a good loss so far!
I think as time goes on your body defo gets more tolerant to the medicine.. I don’t have the appetite suppression I previously had…

thanks for that @Lovesthebeach I think i'm definitely going to go straight into the 1mg.

So are you on 1mg at the moment and feel like the appetite suppression isn't as good? i can only keep doing this kind of calorie deficit if the food noise is not there, otherwise what is the point :( or is it a case of we just have to keep going until 1.7mg which is seen as the therapeutic dose?

Tentatively sidling into this thread if you don’t mind having me - its been suggested I start Wegovy because of a medical condition that means losing some weight would be a good idea. I’ve found it very, very hard to do thanks to gynae/hormonal problems (my days of dropping half a stone fairly easily are long gone, alas) so the consultant thinks this might be a good solution. I’m definitely overweight by at least a couple of stone, but not enough to get an NHS prescription so I’ll be paying for it myself.

My question is - reading this and previous threads, it seems to work best by suppressing appetite/taking away interest in food/making you eat smaller quantities.

What slightly worries me is that my food intake is fairly modest anyway. I often skip meals if I’m not hungry (went through a spell of eating restrictions when younger and old habits etc…). I don’t snack that much and I don’t drink alcohol. I thought the 5:2 diet might be a good solution but it didn’t really produce results.

I’m not totally deluding myself - obviously I do eat too much for the activity I do, or I wouldn’t be overweight, but I'm just questioning how well Wegovy's likely to work in this sort of scenario….if any of that makes sense? As I understand it, it doesn’t actually have an effect on the metabolism, it's purely an appetite-suppressant thing?

I'm in the same boat. I'm hoping it sorts any blood sugar issues that might be fecking my metabolism.

It does have an impact on insulin sensitivity as well. They’re also trialling it for addiction in general, e.g. shopping and gambling. As well as not making me hungry, it also killed any interest I had in sugar at the beginning - this did gradually creep back in as I was on it for longer though.

long term though it has zero lasting effects (unless it did damage to e.g. liver or pancreas while active). Once it’s out of your body you’re basically back to pre-wegovy, though hopefully with a manageable weight meaning it should be easier to maintain vs lose and better habits from breaking the snack routines and learning to eat better.

there’s an interesting study here on what happens afterwards. https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.14725

My first 0.25 has just arrived (I had all sorts of faff with my full length body picture - I'm wider than my full length mirror!).

I'm out for the day tomorrow so don't want to take it now in case it makes me feel rotten, but just asking a bit of advice. Should I do it tomorrow night when I get home, or wait until Thursday morning and make it a Thursday morning "thing"?

I'm a bit nervous about injecting myself but I'm sure I'll get over that.

Anyone else stuck on accessing the medication?

I'm with Superdrug and can no longer get 1.7 or 2.4! What am I supposed to do?

I am currently on 2.4mg, when i started in Oct my BMI was 30 and now it fell to 26.5. It was slow for me especially at lower doses and started to make a difference after 1.7mg. Before Wegovy, I hardly ate at all, I forced myself to fast but the weight didn't go. I'm perimenopausal and thats hard. Few years ago I managed to lose around 20kg (around 3 stones) by intermittent fasting but it didn't work this time.

@Andrasa thats very interesting and helpful. Thank you. Also thanks @BellyButt, good to hear your experience.

I just ordered from Pharmacy2u and they had stock in 2.4 mg

@Flatleak discount code (10% off) is 85FDWW

that's really interesting @Andrasa I would probably admit before wegovy I might have been heading towards a drink problem (loved wine and couldn't imagine a day without pouring a glass) but since starting it I have had no inclination to drink much at all and when I have had a couple (for birthdays etc) I've felt rotten