u/Friskllz

Got admitted into the Masters in AI a few days ago, but when looking through the catalog 2 out of the 3 core courses have undergraduate prerequisite courses with some having prereqs for the prereqs.

My bachelors was in a loosely related field and while I had the relevant background to get admitted, I didn’t do any of these prereq courses.

Will I actually have to dedicate an extra year just to completing 2-3 courses or will UTSA let me register for the core classes anyways?

I’ve been taking compound injections + phentermine for a little over 4 months and have lost around 20 pounds so far. I started the phentermine almost a year and a half ago but the option for injections recently opened up so we started that as well.

3 weeks ago, a few days after our doctor recommended upping my dosage to 1.5 mL, I started having some smellier than usual eggy burps. We don’t know if it was caused by an actual stomach bug due to some gas station food I ate around 2 days earlier, or if it was just due to the new dosage. It started to get worse and worse throughout the week, and I’d have more diarrhea and feel even more bloated day by day. Eventually 1 full week after the burps started, I threw up a small amount at work, mostly just some applesauce I ate earlier that day. But once I got home an hour later, I vomited enough to nearly fill my bathroom sink to the brim, and could see undigested pieces of food I had eaten over 3 days prior. We went to urgent care and they gave me anti nausea medication and anti gas/diarrheal medication (big mistake apparently). The next day I had a slight stomach ache but it became unbearable and we had to go to the emergency room where they gave me medicine for stomach cramps and said to stop taking the anti gas/diarrheal. Our PCP also said to hold off on injections for a week or 2 and all tests for bacterial or viral infections came back negative. After a few days I got better and was able to eat normally for most of last week and we finally resumed the injections yesterday evening at half the prior dosage (0.7 mL).

Ended up waking up this morning with eggy burps again and they taste a lot more disgusting than when they first showed up a couple weeks ago. I’ve been feeling more and more bloated all day and nearly threw up earlier after I did a larger than usual belch. When I was dealing with all this stuff 2 weeks ago I felt terrible and could barely work or leave the house. I had a job interview and I’m 99% sure they could smell it coming off me. For her birthday my mom had to take me to the ER in the middle of the night. I haven’t eaten anything all day and have only been drinking fluids because I’m scared the food will just stay in my body until I’m forced to vomit it all out like I did before. Nearly every medication I’ve tried (pepto bismol, gas-x, probiotics) has had barely any effect either. During all of this I also developed a sore throat which led to a cold and cough so my body has been under a lot of stress lately. I’m starting to have second thoughts about these injections because if this is the condition I’m expected to be in I’d honestly rather just attempt other methods to lose weight.

Thanks for reading any advice appreciated 🙏