r/Ozempic

Hey everyone. 33 Male. 6'0 350 lbs.

Started ozempic 2 weeks ago at 0.25mg in thigh.

Not sure what I'm experiencing.

I still have my usual hunger. Maybe if not more lol.

When I do eat, im eating a little less. But feeling full.

No nausea, no vomiting. Some diarrhea.

I thought it was suppose to stop the food noise?

Am I doing this wrong lol 😆

Hi so I just started Ozempic 0.25mg last week and took my second shot today.

I am feeling slightly discouraged because I have heard many stories about how within the first week people seem to drop a lot of weight. Or some people have called it losing “inflammation” in the body.

I don’t think I’ve noticed a single difference in my body or on the scale. I know it’s early yet and everyone reacts differently to certain doses, but I feel like I have been consistent with a deficit so far.

Are there people who just don’t lose weight despite a deficit? I know this post might come off as impatient, but I am more so curious about how I can emphasize the effect of Ozempic in my body.

Let me know, thanks.

On .50 currently. Feeling less effective as time goes on. On my next check in if I increase to 1mg - what will the price go up to? Curious if this will still be affordable.

I’m curious about filling my prescription at Costco as I see people doing this for their Ozempic and it being much cheaper. For reference, I signed up with Raven and received my first pen for $125. I now see that they charged my card $175 as there is a $50 consult fee each month. This is frustrating as I wasn’t aware of this when signing up. They said I can fill it at my preferred pharmacy but that then I would have to move forward with my GP and get prescription refills from him. This would be tough as my doctor books out about 60 days in advance and I don’t think I could access monthly prescriptions from him. I see people using Felix Health to get their prescriptions filled at Costco. Can someone shed some light on this? Are you still accessing your GP to monitor your progress? I’m looking to spend the least amount of money possible for my pens as I’m just transferring jobs and I’m losing out on benefits and hoping to save some money. Thanks!

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Has anyone else found click counting their Ozempic pen to be unreliable, or felt like increasing the dose by clicks didn’t actually produce the expected increase in appetite suppression?
I’ve been on Ozempic for about 12 weeks. My first several weeks had a very noticeable effect on my appetite and food noise, but for the past 3 weeks I’ve been taking approximately 0.75 mg using click counting from a 1 mg pen, and it honestly feels like the medication has become almost nonexistent.
My appetite and food thoughts are basically back to how they were before Ozempic, and I’ve been having much stronger urges to binge. 😭
My storage is also correct. The pen has been out of the fridge since I opened it 3 weeks ago, stored in a dark cupboard at around 18 to 25°C.
I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced click counted doses feeling inconsistent, increasing the number of clicks but not noticing a stronger effect, one pen feeling noticeably weaker than another, or a dose like 0.75 mg feeling no different from a lower dose.
I know click counting isn’t an officially recommended way to measure doses, so I’m not looking for dosing instructions. I’m mainly curious whether other people have noticed this and what happened when they switched to a properly measured or prescribed dose or a new pen.
Would love to hear your experiences! 👀

Edit: Someone, not sometime!

I know from lots of research that it’s normal to feel crappy when starting. But I’m on day 6 (it’s Weds morning, took my first shot last Thursday evening) and the nausea has gotten so bad. Started with the .25mg dose.

I felt the effects within hours of the shot. First few days were not bad, a little nausea but was feeling happy about not always feeling hungry. The nausea worsened and by day 5 was pretty awful, now day 6 it’s constant and having a hard time eating but making myself eat small meals and sip lots of water.

At this point I’m feeling very nervous for shot 2 😢 Any encouragement? I don’t want to quit because then I know I’ll never start again, but I’m going camping with my family (husband, kids and parents) on Sunday and dreading feeling like this or worse while away from home.

Does anyone know about copay help? My doctor prescribed Ozempic for my diabetes but the copay is $167! I live on disability and now I am overdrawn at the bank. My doctor was thinking of my A1C but I can't help but think of my pocketbook.

I stopped taking Ozempic (0.5 mg) after three months. I had lost 15 pounds. At first, I was energized, loved the lack of hunger and need to eat, and felt clear headed. I had some nausea but was used to it as I had suffered from debilitating IBS and stomach issues my whole life.

After upping my dose on my third pen, even small snacks became difficult. Anything I put in my mouth made me feel like I might throw up. On several occasions when I forced myself to eat something, like bland rice and chicken, I did vomit afterwards. I resorted to a liquids only diet, hoping it would improve. After several weeks of no improvement, I was weak, had brain fog, and had no energy to perform basic tasks. Getting out of bed became difficult. I became forgetful. I stopped running or working out. I’d collapse into bed at 9pm unable to keep my eyes open.

It began affecting my work and personal life, so despite loving seeing the number on the scale decrease, I stopped.

It’s only been two weeks, and I have begun gaining weight despite trying to avoid carbs, eat small meals and resuming my exercise regime. In the back of my mind, I know that’s because previously I was starving.

I feel better, my energy levels restored, but now I feel hungry constantly. Or maybe it just feels constant. In reality, it’s every three hours or so, after eating, but I am finding it unbearable. I can’t remember if I craved carbs this much before Ozempic or whether it’s my body trying to recover in the wake of self-imposed starvation.

I find myself thinking maybe I should go back on Ozempic, despite the memory of my daily sickness and fatigue still fresh. I think I fear gaining all the weight back, suffering for three months for nothing. I fear that now that I know how I look skinnier, I will never be able to even pretend to be happy at a larger weight.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Note: please be kind. I understand everyone has different experiences so if this doesn’t resonate with you, don’t comment.

I've used Ozempic 5 times now, and the injection itself doesn't hurt me at all. I'm not afraid of the pain, needles, blood, or anything like that.

My problem is specifically the moment when the needle gets extremely close to my skin. I count to 3, start moving the pen toward my skin, and then when the needle is just a few millimeters away, my brain seems to hijack my hand and I automatically stop or pull away. Every shot of the 5 shots i toke so far, I have to sit for 45 minutes to an hour fighting my hesitations.

It's really weird because consciously I know it doesn't hurt, and I've already done it successfully 5 times. But every time, I still have this automatic hesitation right before the needle touches my skin.

For anyone who experienced something similar: how did you overcome it and get yourself to inject without that automatic hesitation?

I am currently on 0.5mg and friday will be my 3rd shot at this higher dose, and man am I struggling. Firstly my food noise hasnt gone away, and I still have quite and appetite so it has been a struggle. I am working with a dietician and doing the best I can right now fighting off eating things that aren't good for me while managing cravings. I have a therapist as well as I do have a BEd, so I am trying to do this the right way and to change my habits so down the road when I dont need the medication I can keep the weightloss off. I haven't lost any weight yet but do get all the side effects, projectile vomiting, tiredness, and constipation. I am doing all the right things to manage the side effects as well. Does this get any easier, am I expecting to much to soon.

I will keep trucking along but man this has been rough 😪

I gained 1.8lbs last week. I’ve been waking up with a ravenous stomach. I’ve been eating 200-300 calories over my daily caloric intake all week…I guess that’s a sign to titrate up, isn’t it?

I did 8 weeks at 0.25 mg and 10 weeks at 0.37 mg.
I wanted to stay at 0.37 for as long as possible but it seems I’ve hit my limit. I’m so stressed about moving up to 0.5 mg and worry it will be too much — I don’t want to feel sick or have bad side effects.

I’m hoping that my tolerance is better because of how long I have been injecting 0.37 mg for.

Anyone care to talk me into doing this?
I could really use the reassurance! TIA

ETA: I’m on my 18th injection this Friday.

I've been on Ozempic for over a year now and it has affected my bowel movement frequency. I've been counting 7 to 10 days between them now and my feces is 14 to 18 inches long and three inches wide. It does not go down the toilet with the flushed water because it is not soft and flexible enough. If I leave the turd in the water for 18 to 24 hours it usually softens up from soaking in the water to be flushable. My spouse just discovered what was happening and you know how that goes. Should I get a turd knife? Do they really make those? Any other ideas. I don't want to use a plunger because it seems to be kinda messy. My wife used a plunger and found this out, too; amplifying the issue.

I was just wondering if this was normal, sometimes I have zero appetite or am too nauseous to eat, and then sometimes I feel really hungry. It depends on the day. Today for example I feel really hungry. I was just wondering if this was normal? Or if anyone else has felt the same way?

I messed up and got confused by the pen and administered 2mg to myself. Now I'm reading about everybody's experience when they did that and it has me scared. Is there anything I can do at this point?

Small edit: I am not diabetic. This was prescribed to me for weight loss.

Hi everyone. I recently decided I wanted to use glp-1. I have no prescription or insurance and was planning on paying out of pocket and buying it from a website. My question is I see alot of websites being recommended but then I also see people saying if a place doesn’t require a prescription then it’s probably fake. I went through some of the websites suggested Brello, Hims, etc and was able to get all the way to the payment information panel before backing out. It never asked for a prescription which worried me because I’ve seen people say if it doesn’t require a prescription then it’s not real. I guess my question is can I get a definitive answer on what site is actually real and what would work best? Thanks in advance

Ozempic and rise in PSA

Has anyone that has watchful waiting after a prostate cancer diagnose taken Ozempic and had a PSA rise? I had surgery 20 years ago and radiation. It never was clear. The spa has hovered around 1.4. 3 months ago it was 1.4 and yesterday it was 2.1 and the only change is I started Ozempic 9 weeks ago. I have looked and there are mixed opinions on this. So I am wondering.

Started late May, currently at 0.4mg weekly dose (reduced it down from 0.5mg), I'm not diabetic. I've had weird fainting episodes 3 times now. First time randomly at work, broke out in a cold sweat and felt lightheaded, ate some candy and felt better. Second time at home, got diarrhea, extreme sweating and thought I was going to fall off the toilet and faint. Third time today, diarrhea, cold sweat, fainting, and vomiting this time. Is this hypoglycemia?? Its kind of a weird assortment of symptoms, doesn't exactly fit. Anyone else have this happen? Back when I was slim (about 40lb less than today) I would get faint all the time but it was mostly a positional thing, and not accompanied by sweating and gastrointestinal symptoms, so I don't think thats it. I read a reasearch paper that said most people who faint from pooping die within 2 years of symptom onset lol

the last dr appointment i went to i was on the cusp of needing cholesterol and diabetic meds. my dr said let’s give it 6 months and ozempic and see where you’re at.

i go to the dr next week but ive lost almost 60lbs since march (75lbs since my highest weight) my cholesterol went from 221 to 144 and my A1C from 7 to 5.6.

Ozempic isn’t a miracle drug and it’s still hard work but man am i thankful for this med!