i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
#mental-health 2025-07-12
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Highlights from this day
- ring_size_down — i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it 13:57
- electrolyte_eli — it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things 14:00
- see_a_clinician — if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that 16:29
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
[edited]nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
the identity part is the hardest thing about this and it gets talked about least, which is backwards
[edited]ok so i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt
feeling more emotional generally came up for me too and i took that to my gp rather than to a channel
coming back to this i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
update from 4 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
i see somebody professionally about the eating side of this and it is the best money i have spent on any of it
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it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
not the easy way
genuine question has anyone found a way to celebrate that isnt about a number
the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
quick one the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
that counts
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the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, from memory
how do you deal with somebody saying you took the easy way
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has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
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thats grief honestly
how do you stop reading every twinge as something serious
you are not a fraud. you took a treatment and it worked. that really is the whole story
does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
same at week 5
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
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that was me too
mood dipped hard around week 7, did that lift for anyone
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there, take that with a pinch of salt