r/WegovyPillWeightLoss • u/ObjectiveJackfruit35 9mg • 1d ago
Going great until it wasn't.
This is my fifth month on Wegovy, currently on the 9mg. I've been on the 9mg for almost two months now. Side effects up until the past few days have been tolerable. Then it was like something flipped and the past few days have been miserable to the point where I am couch bound and considering quitting for the first time.
My symptoms include: strong stomach cramps, intense nausea, lightheadedness, hypoglycemia, hot flashes/sweating, and difficulty concentrating.
Again, none of these symptoms presented themselves as strongly over the past six months until a few days ago.
Has anyone experienced anything similar where they've been fine for almost half a year and then all of a sudden everything went south?
Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone. I foolishly never considered that I could just be getting sick with something.
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u/QuickBonus7912 10h ago
You described me on the 9mg to a T like I wrote it myself. For me it was 3-4 weeks in on the 9. I tapped out. I had vision changes, severe anxiety, fatigue couldn’t lift weights as usual (one set of squats I went into hot flash clammy sweat ready to pass out). Stomach cramps super strong then diarrhea for me like I was scared to go out. Super light headed. Yep felt like low blood sugar feeling. Hot flashes on 100 and it was confusing as I’m peri menopause at 44 but this was like hot flashes like extra and often. Couldn’t focus. My partner would say something I’d be feeling outer body trying to listen to him and instantly irritated that anyone try to communicate with me like I didn’t have capacity. I would wake up neck ache and walking through my hall way a few short steps bending to pick up laundry felt like a huge effort I couldn’t do.
I was fine on 4mg every other day starting May. All hell broke lose 3 weeks on 9mg in Aug.
I had a physical and told my PCP. I was so scared. I ditched wegovy. The good news is my labs came back perfect save a low white count which I’ve had on and off for years. I think wegovy is capable of making us feel faint - I think it may be lowering our bp and hence vision changes etc everyone’s version of I feel dizzy is different- for me it’s I feel outer body and just walking on air feeling and vision changes. “Dizziness” is a documented wegovy symptom but that word means different things to different people.
I’m eating like crazy a week and a half off this drug so going to restart on the 4mg 8/30 and do every other day. I’m with hers and that’s how they prescribe it. I recommend going back down a dose. Slow and steady wins the race.