Doc said Ozempic made me look older 😭

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That last photo tells the whole story. You look incredible. It's so good seeing women our age posting these wins - feels less alone in it.
 
Is zinc included in your multivitamin formula? Like I mentioned, zinc should accompany any supplement containing copper. I'm taking KLOW plus an extra zinc supplement and daily vitamins for two months straight now. Haven't gone blue. Probably copper is in there somewhere, I'd need to check the label.
 
prednisone messed me up with steroid-induced diabetes. went into keto acidosis, losing a pound a day for 2 months straight. constant nausea, lightheaded, brutal triglycerides. my doc said i couldn't do anything about it. that's when i started running and haven't stopped in 3+ years. proved him wrong.
 
Honest take: Reandron's solid for long-term TRT if you hate injecting often. But your doc's missing something. Check the blood levels on Reandron—53-day half-life, 1000mg every 90 days, and the swings are brutal. You're bouncing from 1500s to 400-500 over a year. Monthly 333mg makes way more sense.
 
The BMI threshold question comes up a lot, and the actual prescribing criteria can vary significantly by provider and region. Some providers use waist circumference, metabolic markers, or comorbidities rather than strictly BMI alone. What were the circumstances that led to the prescription in your case?
 
the 'fire the doctor' response to a comment that actively undermines treatment motivation is proportionate - a prescriber who frames a successful outcome negatively is creating adherence friction that has real health consequences. finding a provider whose feedback actually supports the treatment goal is not demanding too much; it is a reasonable expectation from medical care
 
I'm 45 and 55 lbs down, and I do look a bit older than before. My upper lids seem to sag very slightly and the bags under my eyes show up worse than they did while I was heavier. Some relatives have equally bad bags and were never fat, and my thin grandmother once had her upper lids fixed since they were starting to block her sight. Still, I'm way better looking now than when I was heavy, so it doesn't worry me much. I lost 55 lbs in under a year, so my skin surely hasn't finished adjusting. If it never does, I'll cry into my pillow in a white two-piece, hugging my new figure, and start saving for eyelid surgery. Ozempic-face sounds overblown to me, mostly a wish that nobody should get thin without paying for it.
 
My face got much thinner, which I think makes me look a bit younger, though I'm older and it highlights lines I already had. At this stage of life I don't care much about that. At a clinic visit last week the woman said she nearly didn't recognize me. About 35 lb are gone since March, so she knew about the changes.
 
Was it ozempic face they mentioned, or that you seem gaunt and tired? I dropped 144lbs on ozempic and I resemble the crypt keeper, yet nobody's said that to me, although I don't let people talk to me weird. I'm also heading into a ton of plastic surgery. Simply tell them not to speak to you like that, or ask them to skip commenting on your appearance.
 
I assume I'll get downvoted, but why on earth did your doctor prescribe you Ozempic just to lose weight at that height and weight? Isn't that a healthy weight at that height? Especially since you say it's only for weight loss and nothing else...
 
And that's exactly where it ends up. Got several friends who were already a healthy weight and now look almost skeletal. One of them even had upper and lower eyelid surgery before dropping extra weight that honestly didn't need to go, and that money bought basically nothing, their whole face has sagged since. But sure, they're sitting right at or under what's considered ideal for someone their height now. Meanwhile I'm still technically overweight but my A1C's close to normal. Worth mentioning, we're all in our seventies here. The whole thing's absurd.
 
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