GLP-1 not working????
Hi I'm a woman in my mid 20s and I used to be on Ozempic for a year. To give context I've been fat for most of my life, my parents have tried every fad diet out there like keto, lowcarb, carnivore, etc etc and essentially chalked it up to my lack of discipline.
To help curb my food noise, they tried to put me on a GLP-1 medication, which was Ozempic and I found it just constantly made me nauseous. To give further context, my family is like a dynasty of doctors. Aunts, uncles and grandparents are all doctors and they basically agreed that I need should be on this medication to help me lose weight.
To be fair I am an adult, I should make my own decisions, but my family is asian and truly believe that they're helping me in the most Asian way possible. By throwing my into this medication head first in hopes to see me skinny. Not healthy, not happy, but skinny.
It truly upsets me in the most profound way that Ozempic didn't work for me. I feel sick, I feel weak, I hate food and when I do want to eat my parents shove food down my throat because otherwise I hate the dishes or their cooking or smth like that.
Now they want me to go on Mounjaro and I don't know if it'll be any different and I just kind of want to lose the weight already in hopes that they stop pestering me about it all. For me it's not become about being healthy, it become about appearances, about what other people think and I'm grasping at straws in hopes to find some semblance of individual, freedom of choice or just smth to tell me that it'll all work out.