The NY Post (not the Times) and other news and “news” sources are just breathless about what amounts to: Ya lose weight quickly, ya get some saggy skin. Gosh! Increds! Hully gee! Post it on Reels! But if it discourages some non-diabetic or non-clinically obese people from using up the supply, have at!
No Ozempic butt for me, so far. I’m at about 11 weeks in (7 at .5mL) and I’m definitely eating less and have dropped 8-9 lbs. My blood sugar is better, I’ve yet to see any thing over a 7.5 (135 to you USAians) post-prandial. Going for an A1C on Monday and then seeing my doc the week after.
Just got my labs back, my A1C has gone from 7.0% to 5.7%. That’s a pretty significant drop.
Great!
I just got my labs back, and my A1c has gone UP by .3 on a higher dose. This may be because I’m queasy much of the time and can only tolerate food I usually don’t eat, like lemon sorbet or white rolls. I can’t really tolerate olive oil, so I can’t do a Mediterranean diet. It’s annoying.
On the .5mg dose the only side effect I am experiencing is that my IBS is substantially better as my gut has been slowed down so much. I suspect my doc will leave the dose where it is for 6 months to see how my sugar and weight do.
If it works, no need to tinker with it! Good news about the IBS.
Well, my PCP ordered Ozempic for me about a week ago and my pharmacy called me today to tell me that my insurance has covered all but $25 of it – I don’t know if that’s per injection, or per month, or what. I’ll swing by after work and talk to them and probably get my first injection.
My A1C is all over the place but in general has been trending upward. 8.3 2 weeks ago, and my fasting glucose is usually in the mid - 200’s to lower 300’s. I’m on Metformin 1gm 2x/day, Glipizide10mg daily, and Lantus 35 units at bedtime. I’m hoping that the Ozempic will help with both the A1C and fasting glucose.
I’m quite overweight so I’m also hoping to see some weight loss. If this can help me train myself to eat smaller portions then I’m all for it.
A friend is taking Wegovy at her doctor’s urging as she’s pre diabetic and quite overweight. She’s only a couple weeks in, but says it makes her ravenously hungry! Hopefully that’s temporary, but what a bummer if it isn’t, and it just doesn’t work for her the way it is intended.
People vary. But anything that makes you ravenously hungry isn’t going to facilitate weight loss.
Can you (or anyone) elaborate on that at all. I’m curious about the mechanism.
I started seeing a nutritionist because I’ve been thinking that losing weight might help my joints. She told me most of her new patients are looking for ozempic, which took me by surprise because i hadn’t really considered it. But neither she nor i felt i needed it, as I’m only “overweight”, not obese, and not diabetic. Still, it got me curious.
Weirdly, I’ve done nothing but track my calories for a week, and in the last couple of months i lost 5 pounds. No, that’s not a lot, but i now weigh a little less than i have in years. I’m hoping the weight loss is because I’ve been a little more cognizant of what I’m eating, and not because I’m getting old and losing muscle or something.
I Googled, and one site suggested that being more hungry on Wegovy might be a temporary thing.
I’ve been on since the very end of March. I have minimal side effects ( the main one being that if I don’t get my fiber and water in, I pay for it. So I get my fiber and water in!) . I’m down right at 20 pounds, which is steady, but not super fast, which I’m happy with.
I had a doctor’s appointment this morning with blood drawn for labs. I’m interested to see what they’ll be. Unless my A1C (which was at pre-diabetic) has gone up, I’m sticking at the 1.0 dose for now as long as it works.
I’ll move up to 1.0 at the end of this week.
Great success! My main driver was my A1C. I’ve been T2D for about a decade, but generally well controlled. My A1C had risen over the years on Metformin until I went on Jardiance about 5 years ago causing a reasonable drop and then started going back up over the last 2 years. The drop to 5.7 with Ozempic has been my low point since I was first diagnosed.
I’m now about 10 or 12 lbs above “normal” by BMI, but down almost 50 lbs from my heaviest. I’d like to lose those 12 lbs, but don’t care if it takes a year.
Let’s see, some random data points:
Ozempic works on a single pathway, Mounjaro is a dual agonist, and there’s a new one still in clinical trial that works on three. I’ve seen it nicknamed triple G and it may be out next year.
I’m unconvinced that Ozempic butt is a real thing. There’s a correlation between wt loss and loose skin, sure, but beyond that color me skeptical. It seems like I’ve been mostly seeing opinion pieces by people that are philosophically opposed, I guess they think it’s cheating or something.
One of my co-workers is taking Ozempic and she said it was a while before she saw any wt loss. ‘Eating less, working out, clothes are looser, but the scale won’t budge.’ Go figure.
I started taking Mounjaro in Feb for a BMI of >31. Since then, I’ve lost about 35 pounds, or about 15%. My out of pocket is about 40-45$ a week, which I figure is less than what I’m not spending on take-out, and the health benefits are undeniable.
Got my results this evening.
A1C is a 5.6, at the top range of normal, but out of the pre diabetic range. Overall cholesterol is way down at 130 (I am on a statin), with triglycerides down, but still in the high range (but significantly lower than they were). Some indication of a possible recent infection, but I have no memory of anything. Beyond that, everything is in the normal range.
All of this is good.
Yeah, mine is still higher than my doctor would like but he’s reassured that having me on a statin is more significant for reducing cardiac issues than the actual reduction in cholesterol. Given the latest news of cardiovascular disease reduction with Ozempic I’m feeling pretty good about things. By the time my dad was my age, he had been living with major cardiac disease for 17 years and had a triple bypass. I have no cardiac issues at all, but a laundry list of everything else.
Congratulations!
I am not diabetic but way overweight. My glucose was 106 so I guess technically pre-diabetic. I go to a medical spa type place. They did extensive blood work before ever prescribing anything. It was eye opening as I was Vitamin D deficient enough to need shots for a month and now high dose supplements and Vitamin B deficient. For that I’ve been giving myself shots three times a week. The concoction also has other stuff and something to prevent nausea. They did prescribe Wegovy and I used the .25 dose once a week for a month then .5 for a month and just had my 1.0 dosage last Wed.
I go to the clinic each week and they give the shots. I have lost about 15 total but I’ve not been moving much. The stuff does make me tired but with the vitamin deficiencies it’s no wonder I was tired. I have had zero side effects. I take plenty of supplements to include fiber and drink lots of water. Also pro and prebiotics and you name it. My PCP was OK with it and said he has had patients with good results. It’s not cheap and I haven’t yet tried to get it from PCP or use my insurance.
Next week I think they will do another blood draw. They also use a In-Body scan machine which is interesting but a little woo to me. I just need to start lifting weights which I have started but not in earnest.
I also did some blood tests that PCP had already ordered and they both showed low thyroid. PCP wanted to repeat at 3 months before prescribing any meds for that. All those things combined to make me tired, depressed and just no motivation to do a damned thing but sit around and eat. The Wegovy has stopped all the food noise and I now have to make sure to try to get my prescribed 1348 calories per day. I have some food aversions like all of a sudden I can’t eat steak. Filet is my choice always so am having to drink protein shakes. I hope this passes.
I also hope everyone else has good results.
I’m on Trulicity and my PCP is switching me to Ozempic in hope of greater weight loss.
If you have done this switch, is there any difference in the injection process? That is, does the weekly pinprick feel any different? (I’m sorta squicked out by injecting myself, but I do it.) Is it harder to do physically on Ozempic or Trulicity? Any other discernable differences?
I find Ozempic pretty easy to inject, the needle and the pen is fine and short so even if it is not in a numb spot it is over pretty quickly. I dont know about the Trulicity injection but the biggest thing I had to get used to is the actual injection mechanism is a bit slow (you jab the needle in and depress a button and wait while the pen mechanism puches the drug in. Having been using something with a regular syringe previously, that slow speed took me a bit to get used to.
The biggest problem I have with Ozempic is my pharmacy doesnt keep it in stock and has to order it AFTER I request the refill or when the refill is due if I use the auto refill option, which means it can take a couple of days, a week, or even over a month last year when there was a shortage due to it being prescribed for weight loss.