Ozempic husband midlife crises

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How’s your weight and if you have any kids how’s their weight?

My husband who previously couldn’t stop chomping on anything not nailed to the walls got the meds and lost lots of weight. He is still eating crap and got into a habit of fat shaming our tween daughter. Tries to go after me too (my BMI is at the upper range of normal, and has been so since I was a teen), but I remind him that his weight loss is covered by my insurance.

So, given your description, you might just exchange one set of troubles for another.

So you have a husband problem, not an Ozempic problem, just to be clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the chronic snoring stop too?!?

Zepbound has clinical results showing good results for the reduction of sleep apnea. That's what my doc wants for me but says it's not available anywhere (although a pp said she was on it).
Others find weight loss reduces snoring.

It's very hard to find right now, you just need to keep trying different pharmacies. CVS is notoriously bad about having it. Try Walgreens?

[Anonymous]

Good for him. And you can't seriously be asking this question after all this time on DCUM. I think you're a very unimaginative troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you afraid he’s going to lose weight and go running after young women?

I would be!

Seen it before too, but mainly married men on the GLP-1s. They get overconfident feeling they have gamed the system (eat unhealthy foods, drink too much coffee and alcohol, never exercise yet lost 50#) and game themselves right into an affair, acting like a prick and a divorce.

+1

Saw this with multiple men. They were fat and working went on GLP-1, lost 50-75 pounds, felt like a god, got cocky, left their wives and families. One got the skin flab surgery too.

We live in the south.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you afraid he’s going to lose weight and go running after young women?

I would be!

Seen it before too, but mainly married men on the GLP-1s. They get overconfident feeling they have gamed the system (eat unhealthy foods, drink too much coffee and alcohol, never exercise yet lost 50#) and game themselves right into an affair, acting like a prick and a divorce.

+1

Saw this with multiple men. They were fat and working went on GLP-1, lost 50-75 pounds, felt like a god, got cocky, left their wives and families. One got the skin flab surgery too.

We live in the south.

Yeah keep him fat and miserable so he stays with you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was very much like your husband. I no longer eat nearly as much as I used to because my appetite just isn't there. My cravings have also changed. I've Lost 63 lb since January.

for real? 3+lbs a week? how overweight were you?

NP, but clearly not your business.

just curious honestly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I started Wegovy (that's Ozempic, but branded for weight loss) two weeks ago. I didn't want it, but my BMI is 34 and my glucose and A1C are flirting with pre-diabetes and my doctor talked me into it. I've been fortunate, insurance is covering it (BCBS fep).

I'm on the starting dose, and it's hard to say how it is going as far as whether I feel hungry or not. Maybe a little less hungry? Less "food noise"? I can tell you that I have side effects -- after I eat a meal I have an hour or two and then I don't know how else to describe it but I can feel the peristalsis start up. It hurts, and then I have to go to the bathroom. It was bad enough one night that I had dreams about needing to go to the bathroom. It's unpleasant, but really not that big of a deal. Not sure if it will get worse when I go up in dose, though.

I have ADD like your DH -- I didn't really know that it could cause impulse eating? Or overeating? I don't think that has ever been the case for me (I was quite skinny most of my life, and I've had ADD since I was a kid -- my weight gain is psych med related and only began when I was 34 and older). Can't say the Wegovy has any effect on my ADD.

I would ask your doctor about switching to Zepbound. My husband and I started on that and it was amazing. Cravings were gone and the food noise was dead. Zepbound became hard to find and we switched to Wegovy for a month and we both hated it. We've had zero side effects on Zepbound.

Can you tell me why you both hated Wegovy? Sounds like you had side effects?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was very much like your husband. I no longer eat nearly as much as I used to because my appetite just isn't there. My cravings have also changed. I've Lost 63 lb since January.

for real? 3+lbs a week? how overweight were you?

You are really bad at math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was very much like your husband. I no longer eat nearly as much as I used to because my appetite just isn't there. My cravings have also changed. I've Lost 63 lb since January.

for real? 3+lbs a week? how overweight were you?

You are really bad at math

3 lbs * 21 weeks = 63 lbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was very much like your husband. I no longer eat nearly as much as I used to because my appetite just isn't there. My cravings have also changed. I've Lost 63 lb since January.

for real? 3+lbs a week? how overweight were you?

I'm too embarrassed to say. But I just had a Drs appointment my scale is off. I've lost 70 lbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you afraid he’s going to lose weight and go running after young women?

I would be!

Seen it before too, but mainly married men on the GLP-1s. They get overconfident feeling they have gamed the system (eat unhealthy foods, drink too much coffee and alcohol, never exercise yet lost 50#) and game themselves right into an affair, acting like a prick and a divorce.

+1

Saw this with multiple men. They were fat and working went on GLP-1, lost 50-75 pounds, felt like a god, got cocky, left their wives and families. One got the skin flab surgery too.

We live in the south.

Yeah keep him fat and miserable so he stays with you

Np
Seems like the injectables create a midlife crisis in some men. They feel invincible and go mess up their stable and not miserable home lives.

[Anonymous]

This just happened to my friend.

Husband who usually overeats, over drinks, never works out, and watches a movie a night while she does the kid stuff, went to an urgimed doctor and out of pocket got on Zepbound.

He lost 40-50 pounds in six months and $6,000 not covered. Looks odd and loose skin, but got so cocky he has moved out and is apparently filing for divorce.

She said no lawyer letter or paperwork has come; it’s apparently such a half baked idea and mid life crisis he hasn’t looked in to anything.

Her main concern is how tough shuttling around will be on their older kid with adhd and high functioning autism.

[Anonymous]

Do these people need to stay on an injectable forever or what’s the actual plan?

Do their cravings and impulse eating return once off the $1000 monthly shots?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will change his/your life. If he’s medically obese or overweight w/ a comorbidity he may be able to get Wegovy covered by insurance. Otherwise, he can find a pharmacy that will compound the medication at a couple hundred $. It requires a lifestyle change and I’d take him up on it.

What lifestyle change? Pretending they're cardiovascularly fit and self-disciplined eating healthy foods in the right portions?

Does it also create muscle tone, heart health, and well oxygenated blood?

Seems like an increasingly pricey shortcut to eventually looking skinny fat or normal weights.

I love it when skinny people come on here and get all jealous that their fat friends are losing weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do these people need to stay on an injectable forever or what’s the actual plan?

Do their cravings and impulse eating return once off the $1000 monthly shots?

$25/month with insurance for the rest of my life does not sound terrible. That's less than your peloton costs.