r/Zepbound_Canada

43F/5'9"/SW:274.4/CW:228.4ish/LW:219/GW:180ish?

I have lost around 50lbs since starting on semaglutide in June 2025. I maxed out at 2.4mg by the end of May and it really slowed down working, quick. I only moved up dosing when the food noise and increased hunger came back.

I switched to Zepbound July 2. I've been increasing per my NP. 4 x 2.5mg, 4 x 5mg. I fully committed to 7.5mg last week. I'm terrified that I'm going to max out on this and not get to goal🥲 I've been trying to stay on a lower dose but I'm not getting enough yet to move the scale. The last month I lost was June and only down 2.2lbs that month. My biggest loss in a month was 8.8lbs but I average around 4-6 lbs/ month. Which I am happy with!

I don't need to lose fast, but can someone offer some encouragement that I'm not on the fast track to 15mg and then will be out of options to get this weight off?!🙈😥

I just returned from 2 weeks of unbridled joy in my beloved Ireland. while there I didn't track my food, I ate what I wanted and stopped when I'd had enough. I drank whiskey EVERY day (4-8oz), ate bread daily, had chips occasionally, a piece or two of chocolate every day, enjoyed a shared dessert after dinners and in all that time I gained.... 2.2lbs (and that's weighing this a.m. after 9 hours on a plane yesterday). I did my best to keep protein up, my water intake was way too low due to being on the move so much and not wanting to have to constantly find a toilet. we did walk quite a lot however my friend has some mobility issues so walks were not at a quick pace or more than 4km at a time. if I could live there I would. brought 2 loaves of Irish bread home to continue to enjoy.

hi everyone.

ok so for those who click count- I plan to ask my doctor to prescribe 15mg pen. I’m self-pay so it’s still pretty expensive. I’m worried about something happening to the pen if I go away for 8 or 10 days. has anyone tried (or would you try) extracting one dose and traveling with the syringe only? thanks so much in advance!

Hi everyone. I'm located in ON. Female, age 43, CW 291, GW 180, Dose 2.5 mg (how do I add this info to my username like I see on some posts?). I was on semaglutide non stop since Nov 2025 and lost around 10lbs with zero movement for quite sometime. I stayed on ozempic because I loved how the food noise disappeared and insurance covered 80% of it. However, I decided to try zep even although I am paying out of pocket and doing so is a hard sacrifice. At wk 2, I lost 2 lbs, now at wk 4, I gained 3 lbs, so instead of losing, I gained. I started tracking my food since last week and I am trying to cut more carbs and increase protein. I do have high insulin resistance and my diabetes numbers last year wasn't close to prediabetic state but still close enough where my Doc cautioned me. I know the scale is not my friend and know I should stay away from it and instead use measurements, pics etc to gauge my success but I stepped on it out of curiosity and now feel demotivated. I have ways struggled with my weight, snacking and sweets so I know this isn't easy. I had started working out 3 times a week in my home gym and ended up with a herniated disc, so I have to get physio starting this week. So much is going wrong but I am trying to stay positive and hopefully can start doing some exercises soon. I will try extracting the golden dose from my 2.5 pen for my 5th shot and move to 5mg the other week. Does anyone have any experience with moving from 2 mg ozempic to 2.5 zep and how they found their body responding? Thanks 😊

Hi everyone,

I’m in Canada and I have Zepbound coverage through my employer’s Sun Life drug plan. I also signed up for the Canadian Zepbound Savings Card through Lilly.

I’m trying to understand how the savings card actually works when you already have private/employer insurance.

What I’m specifically wondering is whether the pharmacy can apply the Zepbound Savings Card first, so it reduces the price of the medication, and then submit the discounted amount to Sun Life.

For example, if the pharmacy price is around $450 and the savings card brings it down to around $300, could Sun Life then cover its percentage of that $300?

Or does it work the other way around, where Sun Life has to process the claim first and then the savings card only applies to whatever copay is left over?

My Sun Life plan already covers most of the cost, so I’m mainly curious whether the savings card can lower the actual drug cost before insurance, rather than just acting like secondary coverage for the remaining balance.

Has anyone here actually tried this with Sun Life, Canada Life, Manulife, GreenShield, etc.? I’d especially love to hear what the pharmacy actually did when they processed both.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I just started and am looking to hear from real people on their experience. I just took my third 2.5mg dose, and the drug is working almost too well. I have lost nearly ten pounds (I know a bunch of that is water weight), and I have no side effects. The thing is my appetite is so suppressed, to the point that I have to force myself to eat if I'm going to reach 1400 calories a day. If I just ate what I wanted, I would probably stop around 1000, which I really don't want to do because I know it's unhealthy and counterproductive.

While of course it's fun to see my weight drop and find out that I respond well to tirz, I have to be real and acknowledge that I'm going to need a bigger appetite to make this change a healthy and sustainable one.

Has anyone gone through this before? Can I expect my appetite to return at a more moderate level? Obviously I plan on staying on 2.5mg next month instead of titrating up. If it helps my starting weight was 250lbs, 5'9, mid forties woman.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I just did 4 doses of 2.5mg and will be moving up to 5mg, however I’m going away for the weekend and have a long drive. I don’t want to take the Kwikpen with me, but I’m also not sure how I will react to the 5mg.

I’d like to click count to take 2.5mg for the next two doses before moving up to the 5mg. But I have heard that the Kwikpen will stop working after using it 4 times. Does anyone have experience doing this?

If I can do this, I will be using the 5mg Kwikpen 5 times:

1. 2.5mg
2. 2.5mg
3. 5mg
4. 5mg
5. 5mg

TIA!