I feel a little ashamed (but probably shouldn't be) as my weight situation is not incredibly severe, and also I'm doing this completely on my own via online vendor (more on the absurd prices of these drugs the offical way in a bit). I'm probably only about 40-50lbs overweight, but I do have stage 1 hypertention at this point and decided I may as well just go for it since I don't personally have a lot of qualms with "doing it the easy way" (stupid), or experimenting with drugs in general.
Beyond whatever weird guilt I've felt about doing it this way, its pretty immediately made a big difference in my appetite, even though I started myself on half the recommended starting dosage. I kind of assumed from reading about it that these GLP drugs would put me back into a state that I was in when I was younger, where eating was predominately a purposeful decision I had to make rather than an impulse. So far this has held true, my choice of when to eat is now on my terms which feels really great. At this dose its not so strong, and I'm a little afraid of bumping up to the normal starting dose in case I have strong side effects given that I think its working.
One of the absolute BEST side effects so far, however, is that I completely stopped having IBS-D flare ups. Turns out part of the way these drugs function is slowing down your digestion (which can become problematic if the dosage is working too well), but as a consequence I'm not having any issues whereas the last month or so before dosing I had been having really bad IBS on a continual basis, where only being really careful to consume lots of fiber was helping (and then not always).
Taking it has made me really excited for anyone being able to use these drugs for weightloss and whatever beneficial health effect that can have on them. I personally think its absolutely nuts how much these companies are charging. I found a good vendor with lots of third parties/buyers doing GCMS testing to make sure everything was pure, and they're charging 135$ (this includes the price of shipping!) for NINE MONTHS worth of ozempic. These companies are absolutely gouging the hell out of people, and theres a lot of other middlemen peddling this stuff with huge markups because its just so easy to sell.
Anyways, was wondering if anyone else was currently on these drugs and what their feelings were? Or if anyone wants to field any questions I'd be glad to talk, but unfortunately I just started so I'm not going to be a amazing source on how its working for me just yet.