My GLP-1 journey (so far!)

Pep_Beer Keeping an eye on your A1C when adjusting your medication is crucial. If you're concerned, discuss a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) with your physician to track your blood sugar in real-time! That could give you a better picture of what a lower dose might do.

sorry you're dealing with this. it's a known side. check the forum for anhedonia. some say it gets better. talk to your doc immediately about switching to another glp1. don't white-knuckle through losing interest in life just to lose weight. nothing's worth that.

Over a year on it, never had loose stool until now. I'm touring Europe and eating different foods — but wow, I'm in the bathroom every couple hours and it's rough. Normally take colace and magnesium at night but stopped a week ago. Getting immodium at the next stop.

Yeah, the plateau at 112-115 for half a year is a frustrating resting point. 143 to that range is still significant movement but hitting a wall for that long usually means the dose or mechanism needs a review. What dose and what medication have you been running to get there?

Appreciate you sharing all that. Sounds like you might finally be at a comparable medication strength now that you've reached 7.5. Never personally used Ozempic so I can't weigh in there, but once I started layering in all the extra habits to support Mounjaro, my results really picked up speed!

Ozempic didn't fully do the job for me. My A1C improved, but the scale barely budged, which mattered to my doctor too. She switched me over to Mounjaro and suddenly the mental chatter about food disappeared, plus I fill up on tiny portions now. Ended up losing more than 50 pounds.

On this medication for type 2 diabetes, so the long-term commitment was expected going in.

Started small and increased monthly. Pretty sure nothing changed until reaching a moderate level. Only then did weight actually start moving. Eventually reached a strong amount and held there a few months. Bloodwork improved enough to ask about dropping the dose. Probably sticking with a slightly lower amount since food noise returns even there, though nowhere near as bad as before.

Everybody responds differently. Even without much early weight loss, research on this drug class shows nearly everyone sees improvement in at least some health markers.

Spent two years on ozempic and barely dropped any weight, though my A1C looked fantastic. Got hit with a lot of judgmental comments from people who felt entitled to weigh in. Had surgery seven months back and had to pause the ozempic since some emerging research flagged unclear risks combining that surgery with glp1 use, so my doctor wanted to play it safe. Made sure everyone around me knew I'd stopped. Doctor cleared me to restart recently and we switched over to mounjaro hoping it'd help more with the scale. Progress is slow but it's moving. Only my closest friend actually knows about the switch. Everyone else thinks the new gym membership explains the change. The reactions this time around feel completely different, so I'm keeping this one to myself!

Fourth month on 7.5 and I've put on 10 pounds.

Type 2 diabetic here, was doing fine on Ozempic. Made the switch to Mounjaro hoping it'd help with menopause-related frozen shoulder inflammation. Shoulder pain's gone but the scale went the wrong direction. Weighing whether to go back to Ozempic.

Lost weight on Mounjaro, sure, but the real win has been blood sugar control. Taking it chiefly for the type 2 diabetes, though I've also got fairly severe fatty liver, thankfully no fibrosis yet, so hoping it chips away at the broader cluster of metabolic issues I'm dealing with. Two months in and my A1C's already dropped significantly from the high sevens before starting. Came off other diabetic medications, triglycerides and cholesterol both trending better. Hoping the loss also helps the visceral fat and liver, next fibroscan in seven months. BMI shifted from class one obesity to just overweight this past week. Goal is 140 lbs, which moves my BMI into normal range, puts the diabetes into remission, and helps heal the liver, needing roughly a fifth of my starting weight gone.