Ozempic not working

[Anonymous]

3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

[Anonymous]

You’ll probably need to give it more time. It took me several months to ramp up to the max dose, then I realized I had only lost 10-15 pounds and decided with my GP to switch to Mounjaro. What’s nice is I didn’t have to start over, I could just switch to the matching dose.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, the weight loss dose is 2.4mg. You’re taking a fifth of that.

It’s like saying I took a fifth of a dose of advil and my headache won’t go away. Idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

+1

[Anonymous]

It doesn't work for 1 in 5 people but, it sounds like you need to give it more time.

[Anonymous]

You didn’t say your dose. A lot of the appetite suppression quite frankly comes from the nauseated feeling that is a known side effect. Once I got used to my dose my weight loss slowed. If that continues I’m going to look into increasing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You didn’t say your dose. A lot of the appetite suppression quite frankly comes from the nauseated feeling that is a known side effect. Once I got used to my dose my weight loss slowed. If that continues I’m going to look into increasing.

No it’s not. The appetite suppression comes from delayed gastric emptying, which can also cause nausea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

If that worked for OP she wouldn’t need the medication lol. Yes, the medication does essentially magically suppress your appetite so you eat less.

[Anonymous]

Many people find it doesn’t work until .5. 1 or higher. But you need to titrate up slowly due to side effects. Give it time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

If that worked for OP she wouldn’t need the medication lol. Yes, the medication does essentially magically suppress your appetite so you eat less.

Wait until we have a wave of malnourished influencers from taking this drug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

If that worked for OP she wouldn’t need the medication lol. Yes, the medication does essentially magically suppress your appetite so you eat less.

Of course it would have worked for OP had she done it.

Look, I take Ozempic because I got a diagnosis of type 2. Before I took it I lost 50 pounds by walking 5 miles a day and limiting carbs to about 125 mg a day, and most of them with fiber. I wrote everything I ate down so I could also see calories were more limited (about 1,800 a day). That was BEFORE Ozempic.

I went on Ozempic and started being a little more lax. I gained back 10 pounds during a period of work travel and the holidays. But my A1C is under six. The doc said if you really want to continue losing you need to do the things you were doing before, don’t just expect Ozempic to be some magical weight loss pill (or injection, as the case may be). I am now on 2 mg dose as of a couple of weeks ago so we will see if I can make more progress on the weight front.

But no, you can’t just take it and continue your old eating and exercise habits and expect it to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many people find it doesn’t work until .5. 1 or higher. But you need to titrate up slowly due to side effects. Give it time.

This – everyone’s body reacts in a different way. This is not a quick fix, despite the many people saying they lost crazy weight seemingly overnight. I’m on week 7 and am down 10 pounds. It’s noticeable enough in my clothes to be motivational, but it isn’t shocking my body so much that I’m losing hair. Give it time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’ll probably need to give it more time. It took me several months to ramp up to the max dose, then I realized I had only lost 10-15 pounds and decided with my GP to switch to Mounjaro. What’s nice is I didn’t have to start over, I could just switch to the matching dose.

How did you do on Mounjaro?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3rd week on this and not working. I’m so happy it’s only $5 with insurance because this doesn’t work for weight loss. Hopefully it at least helps lower my a1c! I was so hopeful.

You do understand that it doesn’t likely magically shed your pounds for you? You need to eat less, move more and cut out the carbs. Do that and it will work.

If that worked for OP she wouldn’t need the medication lol. Yes, the medication does essentially magically suppress your appetite so you eat less.

Of course it would have worked for OP had she done it.

Look, I take Ozempic because I got a diagnosis of type 2. Before I took it I lost 50 pounds by walking 5 miles a day and limiting carbs to about 125 mg a day, and most of them with fiber. I wrote everything I ate down so I could also see calories were more limited (about 1,800 a day). That was BEFORE Ozempic.

I went on Ozempic and started being a little more lax. I gained back 10 pounds during a period of work travel and the holidays. But my A1C is under six. The doc said if you really want to continue losing you need to do the things you were doing before, don’t just expect Ozempic to be some magical weight loss pill (or injection, as the case may be). I am now on 2 mg dose as of a couple of weeks ago so we will see if I can make more progress on the weight front.

But no, you can’t just take it and continue your old eating and exercise habits and expect it to work.

Shrug. It actually does work like that for a lot of people. That’s how it worked for me. I’ve lost 60 pounds so far with no change in diet and almost 0 exercise.