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Some days ago I posted on this sub about how I was having the worst side effects on the starting. (0.25) dose of wegovy. I had been injecting into the stomach, and had the same horrible reaction thrice.
I worked up the courage to give the medication another shot (hah), and did it my thigh.

I think i punctured a blood vessel but beyond that the injection went as it was supposed to. I made sure nothing leaked out either.

I am so confused - I have practically zero side effects, it doesn’t even feel like I took the medication. I am having very slightly lower food noise but beyond that it’s not really working. I mean I know there are no official studies on injection site symptoms, but how is this even possible? I went from 100% (if not 200%) side effects to complete 0%.

I just wanna hear peoples thoughts on this. Thanks guys.

Hey guys. So after struggling with my weight my entire life, I decided to give a glp-1 a go.
My first time trying the shot was around a year and a half ago. I took the injection twice and both times had an extreme reaction. Debilitating headaches, vomitting for 2-3 days after the shot, constant nausea, despite following every single recommendation regarding what to do before and after you take the shot. I was hydrated, ate small, easily digestible meals, etc.
Back then, turned out I had gallstones after the lack of eating caused a horrible galbladder attack which sent me to the ER. I stopped taking it and eventually ended up getting my gallbladder out.

That experience naturally scared me off glp-1, so I tried managing my weight naturally. This has been a huge struggle and after considering trying the medication again for a while now, I decided to give it a go this week now that I don’t have a gallbladder. My logic was that the reason I reacted so strongly was because the shot aggravated my gallstone symptoms, so now that my gallbladder is gone and my digestion is back to normal, it should not be as bad.

I was so wrong. I took the shot on Tuesday night and the last three days have been the worst three days of my life. Vomitting, nausea, the worst headache ever. My sleep has been horrible due to this and today I almost vomitted at work. I asked my doctor what to do, and she told me to wait a week and take it again, but I just cannot. This is the worst experience I’ve ever had with a medication and the thought of having to go through these symptoms again makes me want to cry. (I also followed all the “rules” regarding what not to do and what to do before and after the shot this time)

I tried searching for similar experiences online to see if anybody experienced this on the lowest dose, but seemingly not many people have.

Any advice, tips, theories as to why this could have happened to me? Or if any of you have experience this, please leave a comment. I feel very alone about this experience, and it makes me feel very down that the solution that worked for so many seemingly doesn’t work for me and I’m gonna have to lose the weight the harder way.

Also, I’d like to note I got my bloodwork done before taking the medication and it was completely fine.

Hey people. I’ll throw you a long story, bear with me if it's not completely organized.
I've been living abroad for 5 years now. I moved to get more opportunities and pursue a freelancer (creative) career abroad.
I moved after meeting my SO and got lucky enough that he helped me get a cleaning job through an acquaintance to somewhat start my life in the country.
For some background - I have an economics degree, but never had any interest in the topic. I just picked the major because it seemed like the most rational thing to do at the time as I thought I could not be successful in a creative field, despite always wanting to do creative work.

When I first moved to the new country, I was naive and thought that if I just kept working a more basic job part time while working on my freelance stuff l'd have to avoid doing something related to my degree fulltime - in other words something I'm not interested in.
This was stupid because I had no true plan on how to actually become a freelancer, I was just aimlessly hoping it would happen.
I was young, please cut me some slack.
So I just kept working odd jobs, my mental health going downhill, and my bank account not looking too bright either.
In the meantime, a lot of bad things were happening every few months - heavy things. Family issues, getting treated unfairly in a workplace, etc.
I still kept trying to work on my creative work throughout this and keep believing I can figure it out.

Anyway, fast forward to now. I've been living in the same household as my partner for the last two years, and ever since we moved to this apartment, we have had to deal with a horrible neighbor every single day. Drugs, parties, violence. The apartment is basically unlivable. I had to buy sleeping buds to somehow drown out his noise but sometimes that is not even enough.
We spent a LONG time filing noise complaints, contacting the police, etc. - no result whatsoever. So so much time and energy wasted on that.
It completely ruined our sleep, our ability to he hopeful about our life improving. I could never work in peace on my career, I could never properly rest. There was something happening EVERY SINGLE DAY and you could hear it in every single room. My mental health is at an ATL at this point, so much so that I even started therapy.
Recently, something very bad happened regarding the neighbor, something that finally made me and my partner lose it.
We sat down and agreed we have to accept there will be no consequences for the neighbor's actions and move out. It was long overdue.
Unfortunately, housing in this city is extremely expensive at the moment - we just got "lucky" to have relatively low rent in our current place (wonder why haha).
So we decided it would be best to move to another city.
Unfortunately, this comes with some downsides. l'a have to look for a new job. I've actually been searching for a while now and it's looking really tough out there and a job is not guaranteed, especially with most of my experience being in lower entry positions.
I'm at a point where the lack of stability is starting to affect me very badly, and I don't want to have to deal with any more uncertainty.
I'm so drained from the last 5 years of ongoing trauma and shitty experiences, I feel like I need a break from the uncertainty.

So that leads me to my two options:

1. Desperately look for jobs (which are not promised) and move to a new apartment in a new city with my SO - risk potentially another bad neighbor and other complications and push through (even though I don't feel capable of more pushing). More uncertainty, more delay to me being able to focus on building a career, but potentially more reward as l'd keep living with my partner and maybe who knows something would actually go smoothly for once.
   Or
2. Take the very kind and privileged offer my dad gave me
   - move back to my childhood apartment where I have a small room and take a year or more time to go all in on my freelancing and see where it goes. This would mean not paying rent.
   It's an extremely generous offer, but it would mean losing my documents for the country I'm currently living in (they
   "expire" if you move away for more than half a year). It would also mean being away from my partner, which would we extremely tough after being together almost every day for 5 years. We agreed we would want to stay together, but naturally I worry about the relationship, especially with how much hardship there has been.
   In this scenario, if I don't succeed to get my career going, I'll reassess and possibly accept I need a regular 9-5 and may have to have a job I'm not necessarily passionate about. I just feel like I haven't gotten a single moment to properly focus on growing a career in the last 5 years, despite it being why I moved in the first place.

Also, regarding the country I'm currently living in - My SO is from here, but neither of us necessarily see ourselves living here forever. At this point, the only reason I'm here is him, I don't find the culture as appealing as I once did and the litestyle is not completely tor me.
And regarding my home country - I don't have any triends there (everyone moved away), but I have my tather and my grandparents at least.
I know I have it better than a lot of other people out there and l am grateful for that, but I really could use advice, especially as I'm starting to get suicidal from what feels like the constant delay of starting a proper adult life.
I appreciate any help.