We are all in this together. The worst part is the anorexia, where I really cannot eat. I can eat easy things, but not meat anymore - it disgusts me- just cereal. Sometimes not that.
I’m having coffee this morning and contemplating toast and peanut butter for breakfast (I’m a late riser).

Lentils & rice?

Well, that’s a idea. I’m doing better today. When I wrote that first post I was having a really bad day of unable to eat.
I’ve lost 21 pounds since September 22, when I had spinal fusion surgery in my lumbar area. So I’m OK. And I feel fantastic these days otherwise.
I need to lose weight but not accidentally. That makes me nervous. My BMI is around 30. So I am fine.

Lost more than 50 lbs. had trouble with nausea early on. I had a once a week injection. It helped a little to take it at night rather than in the morning. Gradually my symptoms lessened. My sister really had a tough time. Her doctor cut dosage in half and that helped. However, we are both pre-diabetic (I was before ozempic) and we didn’t need the medicine to produce insulin. Your situation of course is more critical if the drug was prescribed for you to help produce insulin.

I have been diabetic a long time, probably before I was grown. But I wasn’t diagnosed until 2010.I’m 72 years old. After I had Covid in 2020, my body seemed to stop producing any insulin at all, so I had to go on Insulin glargine (long acting). I was up to 70 units a day. Trulicity seemed to work too well and I nearly went into ketoacidosis. But with the Ozempic, I’ve been able to get down to normal blood sugar readings.
I hope the nausea ends soon. I’ve only been taking the 1 mg dose for three weeks now. And my dose of glargine is going down weekly. Now on 36 units.

The last two days have been really bad. No appetite and lots of nausea.

2 mg in April. I was only to help with my blood sugar (A1C at 7.7). My doctor requested the increase from my V.A. doctor who reluctantly agreed and pointed out studies that showed little difference when going from 1 to 2 mg.

WOW!

I lost all interest in snacking or eating anything between meals. I don't feel hungry then. I eat meals 1/3 to 1/2 as big and feel full. As an example, we'd go to a local inexpensive place that has a Thursday lunch special of 4 pork ribs, choice of 2 sides, 3 hushpuppies and a drink (for me Diet soda). I would eat it all. After going to 2 mg, I ate ONE rib, ONE side, 2 puppies and the diet soda. Gave wife the other side and took the 3 other ribs home. They, along with some carrots or celery constituted another lunch. Before and after, I would skip the BBQ sauce (hi in sugar). Similarly, at dinner, I would go from eating 3/4 of a sirloin steak to 1/4 and then get 3 reheated meals from the rest of the steak.

Between March and this month, I lost 24 pounds. A1C went from 7.7 to 6.3. Pants waist decreased 4". I dropped the 5mg of daily Glipizide and reduced long term insulin from 40 to 30 units because my fasting numbers were ranging from 44 to 60s half the days. Doctor had me drop blood pressure medication by 3/4 because it was really low. I feel great. Strangely, in the past with those lows intermittently occurring, I could easily tell I had to wake up my wife to help me take some sugar and could feel the effects of the lows with dizziness and confusion. Now, while I act just as quickly, I have no negative effects whatsoever.

I guess, for me, the 1mg to 2 was the tipping point between having an effect on my sugars and having an effect on my appetite.

My A1C is down to 6.1. I was hospitalized briefly in June for a bout of nausea that wouldn’t stop and I couldn’t eat anything without throwing it up. I was dehydrated and weak, and they had to stabilize my nausea with an injection of something before I could be transported in an ambulance. After three days of hydration with intravenous injections and after going off the Ozempic for a few days, I recovered. I think it was the Ozempic, but I also think I let myself get this way. I should have taken better notice. Now I have compazine to help with bad nausea and I’m OK.
Glad the 1 mg dose is working for me, but also glad others have the option to increase the dose.
I have now lost from 198 pounds to 165 pounds. Hoping to lose 20 more so I lose my muffin top. LOL.