• HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one
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    4 months ago

    Two specific things.

    1. My wife & I bought a house! 🎉
    2. My doctors got me on ozempic because i have hypothyroidism & i literally cannot lose weight. Ive dropped 20 lbs in a month & a half!
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      4 months ago

      Congratulations. Please be very vigilant about monitoring GI side effects though, my SO was hospitalized because of Ozempic and is now in a class action lawsuit because the manufacturer did not reveal it can cause gastroparesis.

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        4 months ago

        Im specifically on zepbound which apparently has less side affects. But damn that first week was a literal shit show.

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      I did not know hypo caused that, I’ve been trying off and on for years to drop weight. I was diagnosed years ago. I did see my weight go up but I assumed it was because I left the service and wasn’t doing PT regularly anymore. I’ve been stuck at -16lbs for months now. Awesome to hear that, might peruse a similar angle myself now.

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        4 months ago

        My doc was telling me that people with hypothyroidism dont have a “set weight” or a weight that your body is comfortable at because everything is broken and terrible. So yeah. Definitely ask.

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      4 months ago

      Wait, how. Why can’t you loose weight? How does it come, that you can’t loose weight with a calories deficit? I’m really curious.

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        Hypothyroidism is a hormone imbalance and one of the side effects of that is weight gain. Additionally, to supplement your hormone deficiency, the medication you take causes you to gain weight. A lot of people cannot control their weight with hypothyroidism. This medication is kind-of a god send.