Have you started having crazy depression that you didn’t have before?
I don’t know if this is Zep related or not or if it’s just pure coincidence. I think the only way to find out if it’s pure coincidence as if I stopped taking the Zep for a period of time and let it completely clear out of my system and see how I feel, but I knew I’m just gonna gain the weight back if I do that.
I went through kind of a break up earlier this year, and it has left me feeling lower than I ever felt in my entire life. The breakup, if you can even call it that, it was never actually officially a relationship, which is kind of one of the reasons that I had to walk away, was the very last day of January. I started taking Zepbound I believe in March. Before that, I was on Wegovy for about a year and I never had any sort of depression on that. I mean the occasional luteal phase crying and things like that but… I mean that’s pretty normal for me.
The timeline here is a bit odd because I feel like I went straight from crying over a breakup to then taking Zepbound to then just feel incredibly incredibly depressed. But I don’t know if that depression is just like left over from the breakup or if it’s being caused or exacerbated by taking this drug. I just don’t know what to do. I feel like the only other time that I’ve ever been this emotional and cried this consistently has been many years ago when I took birth control and it completely wrecked havoc on my entire system, and I was the most emotional that I’ve ever been in my life and I literally could not stop crying. I figured out pretty quickly that it was because of the birth control. I’ve never taken it since and I’ve been fine since. Again, I will get bouts of depression sometimes but never this long lasting.
My doctor is useless for advice. She says it’s not related and take antidepressants. But I don’t want to be a antidepressants. I’ve always been very afraid of those.
Has anybody else experienced this on Zepbound? Or have you taken one of the other GLP1s and noticed any sort of difference? I have way more symptoms in general on Zepbound than I ever had on Wegovy. And no, unfortunately I cannot switch back to the Wegovy because my insurance doesn’t cover it. My insurance does, however cover the Zepbound because I do have diagnosed sleep apnea. But they will not pay for any weight loss medication just for weight loss purposes.
Just wondering if anyone else has similar experiences here. And what you did about it. I’m on 5.0 mg. I’ve never gone up because my side effects are still pretty noticeable even on this dose.