My Endo just started me on Ozempic. I’m a type 2, 42 years old and I’ve been in the low 7s for my A1C for the last 6 months with using metformin, Jardinace, glipizide, and moderate exercise and diet changes. I am about 30 pounds over weight as well and have been having a horrible time losing any weight at all.
Anyway, I’m starting at a 0.25mg dose for four weeks then moving to the therapeutic dose of 0.5mg after, and even now while starting the 0.25mg dose, I really have no desire to eat. It’s like a switch was flipped. Before, I was thinking about what to eat next constantly, was basically food fixated, and now I couldn’t care less. Maybe it’s partly a placebo effect, but hopefully not.
Anyway, just wanted to share my starting experiences with Ozempic. I’ll come back and update as I go along with this medication. Thanks for reading!
In my experience, that’s not placebo. Weight loss is real, but you do acclimate and parts of my appetite returned.
Haven’t started anything and this was great to read. Thank-you.
I’m going for something similar. MH issues have me regularly with my head shoved where the sun don’t shine which is really bloody annoying and have lead to a slow but steady weight increase combined with T2.
Is there a programme so that you’re not on it for the rest of your natural?
