genuine question about nausea that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
genuine question about nausea that I am slightly embarrassed to ask, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
Bought four different things to fix my nausea. What actually worked was eating half as fast.
food noise for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.
Held the dose for an extra six weeks instead of stepping. The sulphur burps settled and I lost the same amount anyway.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Most of the common complaints trace back to slowed gastric emptying — early fullness, reflux, nausea after a large or fatty meal. That is also why meal size and speed change the experience more than anything else.
A symptom that begins the day after the shot and fades by day four tracks the exposure curve. One that appears at random in week 81 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.
I would be careful here. "Everyone gets this" is not true, and it makes the people who get something unusual assume they are fine when they should be asking.
Not convinced by that mechanism. Slowed gastric emptying explains fullness and reflux; it does not explain what you are describing.
Most of the common complaints trace back to slowed gastric emptying — early fullness, reflux, nausea after a large or fatty meal.
sofia_wikstrom is right about the timing. The day-of-week pattern is the diagnostic bit, not the severity.
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
One line a day: dose, day since injection, what the symptom was and how bad out of five, and roughly what you ate. Two months of that fits on one page and the pattern is obvious on paper in a way it never is in your head.
Mine showed a clean day-two-to-day-four window I had been describing as "random". Once you can see the pattern you can plan around it, and planning around it is most of the relief.
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
That reads like advice, and none of us can give it. Describe what you did, not what somebody else should do.
Careful with the supplement recommendation. There is no evidence for it here and the mechanism you are proposing does not hold.
Are you eating in the couple of hours before you sleep?
the first fortnight after a step is the worst of it, then it settles
eating slower does more than most of the supplements people recommend
That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.
The effect on gastric emptying is most pronounced early and attenuates with continued dosing, which is the mechanism behind the "it settles at a stable dose" pattern the whole board reports.
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months.
This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.
Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss. The honest answer there is that it needs someone who can examine you.
Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.
On buying things to fix side effects, which I did extensively and would not do again.
The interventions that changed anything for me were all behavioural and free: smaller meals, eating slower, stopping food a few hours before sleep, more fibre and considerably more water. The things I bought did nothing I could detect, and I was motivated to detect something.
The other lever, which people forget, is time at dose. Holding rather than stepping is a legitimate plan and it fixed my tolerance where nothing else did.
Disagree. Severe abdominal pain is not on the list of things to wait out, and this board should not be treating it as one.
Hair shedding after significant weight loss is a telogen effect that follows the rate of loss. It is not specific to these compounds and it resolves.
write down when it starts and stops, the pattern is the useful part
Pushback: you changed the dose, the meal timing and the training in the same fortnight, so the attribution is guesswork.
How long after a step up did this start?
Has anything else changed in the same window?
Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my nausea than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.
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