On Ozempic for 3 Days and Can’t Eat

[bucks111]

I’m a 65 year old male that’s moderately overweight, with a fairly high A1C…hovering around pre-diabetic and heart issues so the doc just put me on Ozempic .25 last Thursday to start. I have NO appetite. Talking to the wife it seems I’ve had a diet of cookies, candy, cake, Carmel popcorn, coke…you get the idea and I would “supplement“ with “real” food. Now…I have no desire to eat ANYTHING. The daughter fixed a birthday brunch today but all the stuff was food for the old me...all the sweet stuff plus bacon. I mostly ate the scrambled eggs and bacon and felt really bad she made so much and I couldn’t eat it. Shortly afterwards I had diarrhea.

I’ve read Ozempic takes a while to work but within a few hours my appetite was GONE. Anyone on here who had bad eating habits, no appetite and wondered if youre gonna pass out, when you finds started?

Edit: Decided to take advantage of this concierge doc and sent her a text. She texted back and said to order some Fairlife 30 gram protein shakes and let the pounds fall off without passing out ha. Amazon is gonna deliver a variety pack in the moring. Guess that will be my “lunch”. It’s got more protein than a filet mignon best I can tell so.

I am the same as you as far as (supplement food). I eat junk and every once in a while throw in something healthy. My diabetes is totally my fault. I'm at .25 dose and go to double that next week. I hope it works for me like it did for you. Good luck.

 

[Zerog33]

Good thread and info SkyKing.
I'm in middle of my third does at 2.5. Lost 9 by mid 2nd week but that's all. Plateaued / apatite came back. Took third does of 2.5 Sunday and still stuck at 9. Will stick with it.

I use Happy Scale on my iphone to track my weight. I was on Noom for 9 months with minimal success. They advised weighing in daily so I got in the habit. I have 2 years of weigh in data. I don't freak out over the changes, just take them all in stride. Works for me.

 

[Skyking]

Yes…I use Happy Scale as well.

Just so all of you know the side effects…if you have them, need to be addressed. Maybe it’s because the med works so well for me but after 7 full months, I‘m still constipated and can only have a bowel movement if I take a max dose of Ducolox. Because of a busy past week, I let the days slip by and realized it’d been 6 days since I’d had a bowel movement. It took 4 Senocot, 1 enema, 1 suppository and finally 3 Ducolox working overnight. Otherwise I was calling the doc for an emergency visit…so be careful people.