I am 55yo male approx 70lbs overweight w/heart failure, so my cardiologist prescribed Ozempic. Last Saturday was my first dose and was supposed to be .25mg. I tested my pen and liquid came out, so I set it to .25, held it in firmly, pressed the end button and nothing happened (for ten seconds). So I backed off the pressure and pressed it again and the counter turned and it seemed to work. But when I looked at the injection site there was no hole and the liquid didn’t seem to go down at all in the pen. I figured it didn’t work. So, I reset to .25mg and did it again, carefully ensuring the needle was inserted in my skin and the counter turned down the first time. When I removed it it looked the same as the first one (no hole) and the liquid didn’t really go down. So I realized I likely dosed myself twice and had given myself .5mg to start.
The next day the medicine kicked in hard. I would describe it as feeling of slightly sick to my stomach and food just didn’t sound good anymore. I had protein shakes, salads, fruit, and fish every day and lost fiv pounds this week, but I had a few rough days where the nausea feeling was really strong as were subtle acid burping all day long.
So, now it is a week later Saturday. I am debating if I should take the second dose of .25mg or wait a week and let things settle down. The half life is seven days and it stays in the system for as long as five weeks, so in theory I would still have 25mg in my system today. I’d ask my cardiologist, but it is a Saturday today on thanksgiving weekend. So I will likely error on holding off.
Has anyone else accidentally taken too much at one dose? Did you skip the next dose?
The next day the medicine kicked in hard. I would describe it as feeling of slightly sick to my stomach and food just didn’t sound good anymore. I had protein shakes, salads, fruit, and fish every day and lost fiv pounds this week, but I had a few rough days where the nausea feeling was really strong as were subtle acid burping all day long.
So, now it is a week later Saturday. I am debating if I should take the second dose of .25mg or wait a week and let things settle down. The half life is seven days and it stays in the system for as long as five weeks, so in theory I would still have 25mg in my system today. I’d ask my cardiologist, but it is a Saturday today on thanksgiving weekend. So I will likely error on holding off.
Has anyone else accidentally taken too much at one dose? Did you skip the next dose?