I’m sorry. It’s terrible to be nauseated all the time.
This week, I went up to 1.25. If that sits okay, I’ll keep titrating up.
Doc is lowering the dose to 0.5, but I’m out of town so I’ll need to wait until I get back.
In the meantime, I’m going to push my Wednesday dose to next Monday, and try to twist the dial to about halfway when I take it.
I don’t think this works, I believe the button will only push at the prime and full dose positions.
Search on line for Ozempic Click Charts and your pen’s dosage. You’ll find a chart telling you how many clicks equals .5, for example. Or message me so I don’t lose the idea and I’ll one. (I’d see if I can link it here, too.)
ETA: yes, this works for partial doses.
Thanks!!! Seriously useful info. Plus I have a whole new pen at home, and it will be nice to not waste that one.
I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice. My doctors have been okay with me doing this to titrate up slowly and find my best dosage, and YMMV, so ask!
Here’s for the 4 mg pen (blue label, 1 mg dose per standard injection):
Here’s for the 8 mg pen (yellow label, 2 mg dose per standard injection):
How do you not lose track of how many times you’ve clicked the pen?
I count as I click. Click slowly enough to be able to count.
Can the nausea be managed with an anti nausea drug like Ondansetron? I’m about 25 pounds over ideal weight. Over the last year I lost about 10 pounds through diet, but then gained back 5. My doctor is talking about Ozempic but the idea of being constantly nauseated makes me think I’d rather live with the weight.
Not everyone gets nauseated. I don’t know if Ondansetron would help, but your doctor probably knows. I sometimes use an FDA-cleared anti-nausea device that’s working reasonably well.
For me it was just a few days and never severe. After about 18 months I would say I have no negative side effects. I’m down about 14 lbs and my weight is now stable.
Some people do not have nearly the nausea that I do. A friend who had a hard time with ozempic reports she is doing much better in Mounjaro, which meshes with what I’m reading. Abd mine (at the lower doses) definitely improved with time.
I’ve always had a hypersensitive gag reflex. Throat cultures are fun - one time I had the nurse give me the swab, I took it into the bathroom, used the mirror to aim, got the swab, and upchucked into the sink (yes, I cleaned it up!!). My gag reflex is even more sensitive now.
It’s really ironic, given that I never got sick during any of my pregnancies.
The nausea is a big part of why my weight loss has been so dramatic. It would not surprise me to find that I’ve now gotten my BMI down into the “normal” range - a weighing just before we left town had me barely above it. But I’d rather be 20 pounds overweight than feel like this.
And I’ve always had bad motion sickness and sensitivity to odors, and now have some vertigo from cancer treatment, so I swing in the direction of nausea even without Ozempic.
Dramamine is still on the OTC market; maybe that would work for you, MamaZappa?
Interesting suggestion to try antinausea meds. Since actual barfing is still relatively rare (as opposed to constant queasiness), would those be helpful?
Today was an “easy” day. It’s when I’m due for my dose, so it’s usually good anyway. I ate: a half cup of rice. A couple slices of turkey lunchmeat. A small yogurt. A cup of pasta with a nice homemade marinara, plus some broccoli and about a third of a slice of bread. Oh, and a cookie. I’m such a glutton. I’ve felt stuffed most of the day, but not queasy since noon or so.
It is going to be really, really tough to take that dose on Sunday.
For what it’s worth, many years ago, I saw a person in an AIDS video describe how they thanked their medication when they took it (at that time, a huge number of pills). I thank my unpleasant tamoxifen pill every evening when I take it (9 years and counting).
I am prone to nausea when I eat certain foods. It’s somewhat unpredictable, so “just don’t eat those foods” isn’t an easy solution. I’m also very prone to motion sickness. I have an Ondansetron prescription that I use sometimes when I feel nauseated. It is truly a miracle drug; if I feel nauseated for pretty much any reason, 20 minutes after taking Ondansetron, the nausea is completely gone. It doesn’t just stop vomiting, it (as I understand it) makes your body unable to feel nausea. If you haven’t discussed using something like this with your doctor, I would certainly recommend it, and I’ll be curious to know what their response is. I don’t know if it can be used long term, although I know when my wife was on chemotherapy she was prescribed Ondansetron without any limitations that I recall.
Never heard of that medication but it might be helpful the next time I go to an amusement park; I can’t do most rides because of nausea.
I’m similar - I had mild, occasional nausea at the beginning. I did have some constipation issues when I went to the 1.0 dose, but I learned how to mostly prevent those (and what to do on the rare occasion they happen these days).
Since March 2023, I’m down 40 lbs. I am still obese - this has not been a fast lose for me, but that’s more than I’ve been able to lose in decades through all kinds of methods that I’ve tried, from WW to keto.
My doctor did offer zofran when I started in case I wanted to have it on hand. I chose not to, figuring I’d ask for it if I needed it.