Just ordered Ozempic. Nervous as I never used a click pen before. You did a 0.25mg dose? How has it been for you?
It's super easy. Turn the handle wheel thing 18 clicks, and then find your spot, and inject. The needle is really tiny and it goes in easy. Press the button on the pen, and it will click a few times (it's a springy sound), and I hold the needle on my stomach for like 10 seconds.
I have injected morning or night, fasted or not. It makes no difference. I think I may have had a slight nausea a couple of times, in the day or two after I injected, but very minor.
I have only used the .25mg dose.
As for my results so far? I think..........I am not sure if it works. I have started a new habit of walking two times per day, for a total of three hours per day. I have also been eating under 2,000 calories per day. I also take a lot of salbutamol and caffeine etc. So I should be losing weight based on those factors alone, right? I hope so. I should be. The math says so.
However, I have had weight loss phases where it seemed like nothing was working. I have had my calories low, and my activity high, and I wasn't losing weight. I think the Ozempic might be working, but I can't say for sure that it is.
I am now on week 7 of the .25mg dose. I weighed in at like 219 on the day I started (I was bouncing between 216-219). I already started to lose weight before Ozempic though. On May 1st, I weighed 216. Now as of today, I weigh around 206. So I have lost 10 pounds this month, and in total 13 pounds in 7 weeks.
Also, I did not do any low carb or keto, so my weight loss is not entirely water/glycogen. It's been slow and steady and consistent.
This should be normal weight loss for people who are counting calories and walking everyday, but after years of dieting and cutting, my body became not as responsive to my efforts.
I was eating very clean before the Ozempic so I can't say if or how much the Ozempic helped me control my eating. But I can say that I have not had any crazy hunger or cravings. I am walking around on under 1,400-2,000 calories a day, and I don't get any rebound hunger or diet destroying cheat meals/days. Would I have had those without the Ozempic? I don't know.
All I can say is that I like my results right now and I'm going to keep on doing everything I'm doing now, so I am probably going to continue with the Ozempic.