Continuing Wegovy - Thread 2

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First thread here

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

3lbs off this week 😁so 20lbs since I started 3rd Jan....
SW 212
CW 192
GW i'm aiming for 170 but will see how I feel.
Have a great day everyone

I’m sooooo close to my goal I can almost smell it! Now finding it more tempting to drink wine (especially since the arrival of our new puppy!!!) but got to stay focused, I’d be so mad at myself if I blow it now!

Amazing progress! And what a great visualisation - what app is this?

Wow, everyone is doing so well.😊
Keep up the good work!

New thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight_loss_chat/5033833-continuing-wegovy-thread-3

Well done!

I’d appreciate some advice on this. I’ve finished my 4 week pen (.5) and there is some left in the pen. Has anyone used it up do you just twist as far as it will go and inject it or what’s the best method to use up the left over dose xx

Yeah there's normally only about a dozen clicks left. I twist until it stops and inject it.

Has anyone travelled with pen & needles in their hand luggage? Wasn't sure if the needles would be allowed.

@Peoni18 whenever I have travelled with injections I have either had i) a copy of the prescription ii) letter from my GP stating which injections I carry iii) the box sent by the pharmacy that has the sticker on it with your full name, the drug/dosage etc on it. Any of those and usually it's fine in hand luggage. Different countries have different rules i.e. USA at the time required a medical letter from my GP.

Helene2019 thank you so much for the response, I'll take the box with my name etc with me..x

I’ve just bought my 3rd lot of 1mg. I keep saying I’m going to stop as I don’t like the side effects and my loss has been slow. Slow but I am almost 2 stone down and I’m so scared if I stop it’ll pile back on so I’ve just bought another pen.
that’s almost £1000 I’ve spent to lose 2 stone. I must be mad.

Wow, I could only dream of being 2 stone down by staying on 1mg.

I've just taken my second dose of 1.7mg. The side effects are definitely improving gradually, but the weight loss is depressingly slow. I've been going for over 3 months now and I've lost about half a stone max.

I didn't really lose anything at all until I went on to the 1mg. It's a bit demoralising.

I’ve been on it since end of November.
Dont get me wrong I’m pleased I’ve lost weight, that’s why I m still going, despite the side effects, lots of nausea, just generally yucky, can’t enjoy a night out/ can’t drink etc

If it wasn’t for the side effects I wouldn’t have lost weight as my willpower is awful.

I had to take a weeks break from 1mg pen as the side effects were so brutal for me - I literally was in my bed for a full weekend. I was going on holiday and the first 3 days were awful as the side effects wore off.

However I had been fine until 1mg and I’m 1 stone down and feeling good - so not ready to give up fully.

Somewhere on here someone kindly responded to me how to adjust a 1mg pen for a 0.5mg dose as I don’t want to waste a pen with 2 more doses left in it. But I can’t find that response, can anyone help?

in my mind I think it’s 35 clicks and then inject - but just to double check?

thank you!

It's 37 clicks, if you look at the pen the line is slightly different at the 37 click mark. 1mg was too brutal for me so I dropped back to .5. I can eat a bit more but I'm still losing and do t feel like I've been hit by a bus.

Thanks so much - I will go back to the 0.5mg tomo. I was in same boat I eat less on 0.5 with minimal side effects. 1mg is too much, I actually felt so bad i just couldn’t continue and needed a one week break.

Hi does anyone know if you can buy wegovy in Turkey?

I haven't posted on here for ages as I have been a very slow responder, to the point where I thought I was a non responder. It also took me ages to titrate up due to shortage of doses. I ended up with three months on 0.25, and two months each on the next two doses. I lost half a stone my very first month, then only very tiny amounts after that. It's only now that I have finally hit 1.7 of wegovy that the weight is moving again. It's taken me seven months to lose a stone, with the majority of that being in my first month, and this past few weeks on 1.7.

I had given myself to the end of this month or I was giving up so I am so relieved it's working for me now. There is definitely some truth in people saying not to give up until you reach the higher doses.

I also reached an NSV today. I have a pair of vintage jeans from the late 90s, think hipsters and boot cut. I absolutely love them and was so happy to be able to wear them again when I tried them on last month. I hadn't worn them for about 10 years before that. I put them on today and they slid down my hips! I'm mostly glad at the loss of inches but also sad I can't wear them anymore. It's very weird to be a size 16 again. I haven't been that for a long long time.

I've moved onto the higher dose now, but it's taken me 17 weeks to lose 14lbs, which I think is a bit pathetic to be honest. I saw virtually no loss on the 0.25 and very little on the 0.50. Since I've been on 1.7 and higher it's speeding up a bit, but only a bit. I still do get hungry, I just eat smaller (but not tiny) meals because I get full quicker.

I am disappointed it's not working better/faster, but I figure so long as it's consistent and I continue to lose at least as much for the next two lots of 17 weeks, that's 3 stones in exactly one year, which I'll be happy with. I'd like to be around 10lb less than that ideally, but I don't see that being realistic or achievable. That would put me at around 9 stone at 5' 2" and I actually can't remember weighing less than 9 stone 7 in my whole adult life.

I've not felt ill at all on the higher doses, my body seems to have acclimatised really well to it. The nausea and constipation is, if anything, probably less of an issue now that it was when I first started on the lowest dose. Thank God, because if I couldn't cope with the higher doses I'd be not losing any weight at all. The low doses did virtually nothing for me.

Hello just took my first 0.25 dose minutes ago!
height 5.6

CW 90 kg/14.2
GW 80/12.5

I don't want Wegovy face so hope to stop before I'm super thin!

I don't believe Wegovy Face is a thing. It's just weight loss face. It's always been that way, since long before Wegovy. They say past a certain age you need to choose between your face and your figure, but frankly I'd rather be slim and I can always have a facelift or some fillers. My face looks masses slimmer and much better since I've been on Wegovy. It's no longer bloated and puffy and piggy eyed and blotchy. Mainly because I am drinking virtually no alcohol these days.

I also don't think the Wegovy is ever going to make me super thin. The weight loss for me is very slow and steady and I feel it may plateau soon as I've reached a loss of 20% of my body weight. I'm still technically overweight though, so I am hoping it will still work for another stone or so. Even then I'll be a long way from thin, for my height.