This is my typical health care experience–got approved for Wegovy by my insurance company a month ago, only for my employer to decide they are going to drop it from coverage for the whole organization. The economics seem pretty straightforward at $1600/month, but still…
I’m not sure I would have remained on Wegovy for long, even without this curveball. This was my experience over the last month:
- I injected the first dose on Wednesday morning. By Thursday, I felt no desire to eat at all. I ended up having to force myself to eat enough to get up to 1500 calories on most days.
- It felt like my body took forever to digest food. I felt bloated and uncomfortable fairly often, even after eating only small portions of food.
- It appears to be an uncommon side effect, but I experienced overwhelming fatigue, especially in the first few days after each weekly injection. I was already a big fan of sleep but did not expect to go from 8 hours a night to 9.5 to 10 hours a night.
I’m not sure if this was a side effect of the actual medication, my lower caloric intake, the slow digestion, or a combination of all three. - Not even sure how to describe this, but my stomach felt weird. You know that momentary weightless feeling you get in your stomach when you are going down a steep hill or in a roller coaster? I felt something like that. A lot.