Mounjaro made me to sick. Should I try Ozempic?
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Even assuming you aren't experiencing pancreatitis symptoms (have you been checked) I bet your doctor would be hesitant to prescribe another GLP1 to you after having such a bad reaction to Mounjaro, but if it was me, I would still ask.
Personally, after a year on these meds and experiencing the life saving benefits from them, I would exhaust every option I had to access one of them before giving up on the whole line. Unfortunately, some people just can't tolerate them, hopefully that's the case for you.
If you decide to go grey semaglutide, consider starting even lower than the typical 0.25mg starting dose - just to see how it settles in your system.
Personally, after a year on these meds and experiencing the life saving benefits from them, I would exhaust every option I had to access one of them before giving up on the whole line. Unfortunately, some people just can't tolerate them, hopefully that's the case for you.
If you decide to go grey semaglutide, consider starting even lower than the typical 0.25mg starting dose - just to see how it settles in your system.
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Because semaglutide tends to have stronger GLP-1 effects than tirzepatide, I suspect that semaglutide would be worse. Have you discussed using a lower dose? I know you were on the medicine for a while. I was on 10 mg of tirzepatide and am now of 5 mg. I haven't reached my target weight and might never do so but it wasn't worth the side effects. But I feel pretty good on 5 mg.
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What side effects did experience moving up to 10mg, May I ask?
I had diarrhea on 2.5 and 5 by the time I was on 7.5 it tapered off. I had to skip a week for a procedure and my dr said I can take the 7.5 mg again after skipping a week. That’s when I got really sick and ended up going to the ER from nonstop diarrhea and then threw up. My dr told me that I can just take 7.5 again the next week and would be fine but I decided to do 5 mg instead. Got sick again. He told me to skip a week and go down to 2.5 mg but I have been to scared to. He seemed to think this was all an unusual reaction.
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I can see why you'd be scared. If you're taking compounded or grey, then you can start at 1.2 mg for four week, then go up 1.2 to 1.3 mg every four weeks. That should, hopefully, avoid making you sick again. From now on, know that you if managed to get yourself to a higher dose and then had to stop, even briefly, you need to slowly re-adjust to a higher dose. All of this presupposes that the benefit you get from tirzepatide is worth the side effects, at least some of which you'll undoubtedly get even if you follow my advice and even if my advice even works well. You might just decide it's not worth it. From what I've read, after being off tirzepatide one week (i.e., two weeks between doses), a person can normally resume at the last dose. Obviously, that general statement does not apply to you. Good luck.
