
Pill vs Injection for extreme nausea?
Hi all. I use goodrx and take the wegovy pill at the starter dose, as I’ve only been on a GLP-1 for 2 weeks. First week was solid with hardly any side effects except fullness and constipation, but that was on me since I didn’t have a ton of fiber where I was staying. The second week on these pills were hell for several reasons. I started a new job which was physically taxing on my body, I started my period, and I had to start 2 other medications for my PMOS - Doxycycline (low dose for my skin flare ups) and Spironolactone for my hirsutism.
My question is, I’m not sure whether the nausea will get better. I was having extreme head rushes, dizziness, nausea every single day no matter the time of day. I couldn’t sleep because I was so nauseous. I woke up nauseous. I took the pill and got nauseous. Eating helped for maybe 30min, then the nausea returned. I’m not able to eat frequent small meals due to my work. I usually have to wait 5-6hrs between meals and can’t just snack in between. Because of this, I’m thinking I may just be a bad candidate for weight loss drugs.
Conversely though, I heard from some people that the injection only causes nausea for the first day or so after the injection. If that’s the case, I’d much rather swap to that. I can take nausea for a day or two, but the daily pill would guarantee nausea every single day.
On top of all this, I told my prescriber at GoodRX and I requested nausea medication. All they did was recommend I stop the meds, then prescribed me more, and didn’t respond to me asking for nausea medication 😭
Any advice would be helpful