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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I am in exactly the same boat you are in. On the smallest dose, I can’t imagine that the most harmful side effects even happen. And my doc is telling me that they are finding these meds to be beneficial in other ways, for example to help with autoimmune diseases. [/quote]

Thanks, OP. I had mild nausea the first few days but since then, no side effects. No constipation, nothing. I, too, have read about additional benefits of these meds, including reduced inflammation and depression relief. I do think these meds bring out a lot of feelings in women, maybe especially in those who take care of themselves and are slim. Because these meds are helping others achieve the same, and that in turn makes being slim, fit and healthy more common. Right now, being slim and healthy means you're in the minority of people, it gives you so many advantages in life. People treat you better and life in general is happier. If being slim becomes more of the norm instead of the exception, the special privileges that come with it might wane. I think that pisses skinny women off. Look how people who don't take and aren't considering taking GLP-1s come, without fail, into these threads to say the most awful things. Wishing death, wishing ER visits and impacted colons. And we're just here sharing information and experiences. As I said, this is the meanest board on DCUM. The topic of weight is a touchy one for many women, clearly.

I treat everyone with respect, fat and thin. When I said I'm fat phobic, I meant that I have always severely berated myself, felt disgusted at my reflection, really just felt embarrassed to be me when I weigh more than I want to. I acknowledge that this is disordered thinking. I have struggled with it for most of my life, and I think many women share this struggle. This med has been miraculous for me because it's allowed me to control my eating without effort, without an internal fight all the time. I no longer feel passionate about food and eating. I still enjoy it, but it's not my focus. I eat for nutrition on this med, instead of giving into cravings, binging, restricting. I really don't ever want to return to the way I was living before, which was in an exhausting cycle of binging, restricting, and general self-disgust for not being able to control myself. Everything in my life feels better after 3 months on a GLP-1. I'm at my ideal weight, my skin is radiant, I'm sleeping better, I'm in a happier mood, I'm more focused. It has been an all-around wonderful experience for me and I am grateful.[/quote]

The “jealousy” argument makes no sense to me - I don’t struggle to maintain weight, but I’m certainly not the only one here. It feels like so much wishful thinking from women who take the meds, which is of course your right! But there’s such a strong desire in some people like you to think that others think “jeez now I won’t be special because she is thin.” That’s like a 2000s era romcom mentality to me, I’ve never heard anyone express any thoughts like that.

People have always been awful based on different prejudices we recognize as wrong, and until the 1970s at the absolute earliest, it was a real outlier to be heavy. But there were classist and racist and several otherizing, nasty classifications in play. This kind of use of this kind of drug is innately classist to me, so only poorer people will be stigmatized for failing to be successful enough to afford thinness. And that’s not your problem to solve, totally get it. It just sits wrong, like the worst off of us will get an enhancement, an aggravating factor to the shame. Again - not your fault. And if there are other health applications like autoimmune or dementia prevention (? No idea) elements, great. There’s just complexity around this, and I don’t think anyone should expect people to be all rah rah over privileged people microdosing, and the absence of rah rah isn’t “ooh you’re so jelly that I’m a size 23 in Mother!” I mean, come on.[/quote]

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