My Honest Wegovy Experience: Why I Stopped Taking Wegovy After 6 Weeks
Disclaimer: This article is based entirely on my personal experience of taking Wegovy. It is not medical advice, and everyone’s experience with weight loss medication will be different. If you have concerns about your health or medication, always seek advice from a healthcare professional.
My Wegovy Journey at a Glance
| Detail | My Experience |
|---|---|
| Reason for starting | Weight loss and reducing food noise |
| Time on Wegovy | 6 weeks |
| Biggest benefit | Reduced food noise and appetite |
| Biggest challenge | Severe diarrhoea and vomiting |
| Why I stopped | I became too unwell and couldn’t keep even water down |
| Would I take it again? | No |
| Biggest lesson | Food noise is real, and reducing it can be life-changing |
Quick Summary
If you only read one section of this article, this is what you need to know.
Wegovy did help me.
It reduced my appetite.
It reduced my food noise.
It helped me understand my relationship with food in a way I never had before.
However, after six weeks, I became so unwell that I couldn’t keep food or even water down. The vomiting and diarrhoea became too severe, and I made the decision to stop taking it.
Do I regret trying Wegovy? No.
Would I take it again? Also no.
Here’s my full experience with my Wegovy prescription.
Why I Decided to Try Wegovy
If you’ve been reading Just Average Jen for a while, you’ll know that my weight has been a huge part of my life for many years. In fact, I’ve probably shared more about my weight loss journey online than most people ever tell their closest friends!
Years ago, I lost around 10 stone and reached my target weight. At the time, it felt like I’d finally achieved something I had been working towards for so long. I was wearing clothes I never imagined I’d fit into, I had started running, and I remember feeling incredibly proud of myself. Like many people who lose a significant amount of weight, I genuinely believed I had finally cracked it and that my struggles with food were behind me.
The reality turned out to be a little more complicated than that.
Although I’d lost the weight, food still occupied a huge amount of space in my head. Looking back now, I can see that I spent far too much time thinking about what I was eating, what I shouldn’t be eating and whether I was being “good” or “bad”. If the scales went up by a pound or two, it could affect my mood far more than it should have done. If I ate something I considered a treat, I’d often find myself feeling guilty afterwards rather than simply enjoying it.
Over time, life happened as it does for all of us. There were stressful periods, difficult times and plenty of reasons to turn back to old habits. Gradually, some of the weight returned and, with it, so did a lot of those feelings I’d hoped I had left behind.
What made it particularly frustrating was that I knew what I should be doing. I write about healthy living and weight loss for a living. I know how to cook healthy meals. I know what a balanced plate looks like. I know how weight loss works in theory. But knowing something and finding it easy to do every day are two very different things.
The biggest struggle wasn’t a lack of knowledge. It was the constant mental chatter about food. I could finish one meal and already be thinking about the next. I’d tell myself I wasn’t having chocolate, then spend the rest of the evening thinking about chocolate. I’d wander into the kitchen without actually being hungry and find myself looking in the cupboards out of habit.
It was exhausting.
When I first started hearing people talk about taking Wegovy, it wasn’t actually the weight loss stories that caught my attention. Of course, losing weight appealed to me, but what really made me curious was when people described something called food noise. They talked about how their minds felt quieter around food and how they weren’t constantly thinking about what they could eat next.
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t even sure I believed it at first.
The idea that you could walk past a packet of biscuits without having an internal debate about whether to eat one sounded completely alien to me. I wondered if I could actually go into my favourite coffee shop and not even be tempted by the cakes. Food had been such a dominant part of my thoughts for so long that I couldn’t imagine what it would feel like if it weren’t.
I was referred by my GP to Oviva for weight loss support. They are a Tier 3 service that offers dietary support and weight-loss injections (Wegovy) if you meet their criteria. I found their dietary support was good, and I was intrigued by the Wegovy support.
More than the possibility of losing weight, I wanted to know what it felt like to have some peace from the constant battle going on in my head. If it could help with that, then perhaps it was worth exploring. After a long chat with a prescriber discussing my history of weight issues, current weight, medications, reactions to medications, lactose intolerance and lots more, I was offered Wegovy and told all about the possible side effects and impacts on other medical conditions, including my lactose intolerance. I was unsure but intrigued, so I tried it, and here is what happened.
What Is Wegovy?
If you’ve somehow managed to avoid all the news stories, social media discussions and celebrity headlines about it, Wegovy is a prescription Weight loss medication containing semaglutide.
Now, I could get very technical here and explain exactly how it works in the body, but if you’re reading this because you’re considering Wegovy yourself, what you probably want to know is what it is supposed to do in real life.
The aim of Wegovy is to help people feel fuller for longer, reduce appetite and, for many people, make it easier to eat smaller portions without feeling constantly hungry. It works by mimicking a naturally occurring hormone that helps regulate appetite and feelings of fullness. When we think about what Wegovy is used for, we often think of the weight loss element, but it is also used for diabetes!
Before I started taking it, most of what I had heard from other people wasn’t actually about the weight loss. It was about something called food noise. People talked about no longer feeling preoccupied with food all day, no longer constantly thinking about snacks, and no longer having that running commentary in their head about what they should or shouldn’t eat.
As someone who had spent years feeling like food occupied far too much of my brain space, that was the part that really caught my attention.
Of course, I wanted to lose weight too. I would be lying if I said otherwise. But what I hoped Wegovy might give me was something I’d struggled to achieve for years: a healthier, quieter relationship with food.
Like any medication, though, Wegovy isn’t without risks. Whilst some people experience very few side effects, others find them difficult to manage. As you’ll see later in this article, that ended up being a significant part of my own experience.
What Wegovy Taught Me About Food Noise
One of the things I keep coming back to when I think about my experience with taking Wegovy is food noise.
Before I started taking it, I’d seen people mention food noise online and in Facebook groups, but, to be honest, I didn’t really pay much attention. I assumed it was just another weight-loss buzzword people were using. After all, everyone thinks about food, don’t they? At least, that’s what I thought.
Looking back now, I think food had become such a normal part of my thought process that I didn’t even notice how much space it was taking up. It was a bit like living next to a busy road. After a while, you stop hearing the traffic because it becomes part of everyday life. Food was a bit like that for me.
Not in an obsessive way where I was constantly eating, but in a way that was always there in the background. If there was chocolate in the cupboard, I knew it was there. If we had leftovers from a takeaway in the fridge, I knew they were there too. I wasn’t necessarily planning to eat them, but they occupied a little corner of my brain anyway.
I think that’s one of the reasons I found maintaining weight loss so difficult over the years. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what to eat. Goodness knows I’ve spent enough years writing about healthy eating, recipes and weight loss to know how it all works. It was more than that; food always seemed to be part of the conversation going on in my head.
I’d make lunch and already be wondering what we’d have for dinner. I’d decide not to have a snack, then find myself thinking about it on and off for the next hour. I’d walk into the kitchen to make a drink and somehow end up standing in front of the open fridge despite not actually wanting anything.
At the time, I genuinely thought everyone did that.
Then, a couple of weeks after starting Wegovy, I realised something felt different. It wasn’t dramatic. There wasn’t some big moment where everything suddenly changed. In fact, it took me a while to even notice it. What I became aware of was what wasn’t happening.
I wasn’t thinking about food as much. I wasn’t opening cupboards for no reason. I wasn’t mentally negotiating with myself all day. I could get snacks for Stuart and Ben and not for myself without any major willpower battles! I was even happy going into my favourite coffee shop and not tempted by cakes!
One evening, I realised there was chocolate in the cupboard that I’d completely forgotten about. That sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? But honestly, that was probably the moment it hit me. Normally, I’d know exactly what treats were in the house and where they were. Not because I was desperate to eat them, but because some part of my brain was always keeping track.
For the first time in years, it wasn’t. The best way I can describe it is that my mind felt quieter. Food was still enjoyable. I still looked forward to meals. I still enjoyed going out for dinner and having treats. It wasn’t that food stopped mattering. It just stopped dominating my thoughts.
I remember saying to a friend that I wondered if this was how people without weight problems felt all the time. Was this normal? Had I spent years fighting a battle that some people didn’t even realise existed? That realisation stayed with me long after I stopped taking Wegovy. In fact, it’s probably the biggest thing I learned from the whole experience.
Whilst the medication wasn’t right for me in the end, it completely changed how I think about obesity and weight loss. For years, I’d blamed myself. I thought I needed more willpower, more motivation or more self-control. It made me realise that sometimes the issue isn’t knowledge or laziness. Sometimes it’s just exhausting carrying around that constant background chatter about food every single day.
I know not everyone will relate to that, but if you’ve read this section and found yourself nodding along, then you’ll probably understand exactly what I mean.
My First Few Weeks on Wegovy
I received my Wegovy pens and needle pack along with a small sharps bin by recorded delivery from Oviva’s linked pharmacy. I was excited but also anxious!
When I took my first Wegovy injection, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. Part of me wondered whether I’d notice anything at all. I’d read so many different experiences online that I wasn’t sure whether I’d be one of those people who felt a difference straight away or whether it would take weeks before I noticed any changes.
The first few days were fairly uneventful. I kept paying attention to how I felt, almost waiting for something dramatic to happen, but life carried on pretty much as usual. I felt a little queasy at times, but that was it; it was similar to travel sickness. Then, gradually, I started noticing little things. The biggest change was that I wasn’t as hungry.
That probably sounds obvious given what Wegovy is designed to do, but it felt strange because it wasn’t a forced kind of not-being-hungry. I wasn’t sitting there desperately wanting food and trying to resist it. Instead, I just didn’t seem to be thinking about food as much.
Normally, if I was working, there would be moments throughout the day where I’d find myself wandering into the kitchen, making a drink and having a quick look in the cupboards while I was there. Not because I was starving, but just because food was always somewhere in the back of my mind. After a couple of weeks, I realised I wasn’t doing that nearly as much.
Meal times came around, and I was genuinely satisfied with smaller portions. There were occasions where I left food on my plate simply because I’d had enough, which felt quite unusual. If you’ve spent years trying to lose weight, you’ll probably understand how strange that can feel. For so long, I’d been relying on willpower to stop eating, whereas this felt much more natural.
I also found myself making food choices without quite so much internal debate. Normally, there could be a lot of negotiation going on in my head. Should I have this? Should I avoid that? Am I actually hungry, or do I just fancy it? Suddenly, those conversations seemed much quieter.
Of course, it wasn’t all positive. I did have side effects from fairly early on, but at first they seemed manageable. I felt a bit queasy on and off, and there were certain foods that didn’t appeal to me in the same way they had before. Some days I felt full surprisingly quickly, and occasionally I felt slightly uncomfortable if I ate more than my body seemed happy with. At the time, though, none of it worried me.
Wegovy and alcohol are another concern I have heard people mention. I wasn’t on it long enough to need to worry about that!
I remember thinking that if feeling a little bit queasy meant I wasn’t constantly craving chocolate, then it wasn’t the worst trade-off in the world. Compared to some of the horror stories I’d read online, my experience felt relatively mild.
Looking back now, I can see the signs that my body wasn’t entirely happy, but during those first few weeks, I genuinely felt optimistic. The side effects seemed small compared to the benefits I was experiencing, and for the first time in a long time, I felt hopeful that I might have found something that could help me manage both my weight and the constant thoughts about food that had followed me for years.
What Friends and Family Noticed
One thing I found quite interesting during my time taking Wegovy was that some of the changes were noticed by the people around me before I really recognised them myself.
When you’re living with something every day, it’s easy to miss the gradual changes. You don’t always notice your own habits shifting because they happen little by little. Family, on the other hand, often spots things much sooner.
Meals were probably where the biggest changes became obvious. I’d serve myself what would previously have felt like a normal portion and then find I couldn’t finish it. There were quite a few occasions where I pushed my plate away because I genuinely felt full. If you’ve spent years dieting, you’ll know how unusual that can feel. Usually, stopping eating involves some sort of mental battle, but this felt different. It wasn’t willpower. I just didn’t want any more.
My family also noticed that I seemed less focused on food in general. That sounds strange, given that food and recipes are such a huge part of my life and my work, but there was definitely a difference. I wasn’t asking what everyone fancied for dinner three times a day, and I wasn’t wandering into the kitchen every hour to see what was available. Food was still important, but it didn’t seem to be taking centre stage in quite the same way.
At the time, these changes all felt positive. In fact, they were exactly the sort of changes I’d hoped for when I started Wegovy. I felt like I was developing a calmer relationship with food and that the medication was helping me in ways I hadn’t expected. Unfortunately, that feeling didn’t last.
After my week six injection, things changed very quickly. The conversations stopped being about how little I was snacking or how much food I was leaving on my plate. Instead, my family became concerned about how unwell I was becoming, and that was when my Wegovy journey took a very different turn.
The Week I Realised It Wasn’t Right for Me
Up until week six, I had been willing to put up with the side effects because I felt there were benefits too. I wasn’t feeling amazing, but not terrible either; it seemed manageable. I felt a bit queasy at times, and there were definitely days when food didn’t appeal to me much, but I could live with that. In fact, I even joked that feeling slightly sick made it easier to ignore the chocolate cupboard!
Then everything changed.
I woke up the morning after injection 6, feeling particularly rough, but at first, I didn’t immediately blame Wegovy. Like most people, I started wondering if I’d picked up a bug or eaten something that disagreed with me. I had woken up early as we were going out for the day and I am not a morning person so I put it down to that too. I told myself to take it easy and see how I felt later. Unfortunately, later never came.
As the day went on, the diarrhoea became relentless, and I was also very sick. Not just feeling nauseous, but properly being sick over and over again. Every time I thought I might be improving, I’d try a sip of water and find myself running back to the bathroom, it was like my whole stomach was emptying every time, not even a sip of water could stay down.
I remember sitting on the sofa when we got home with a glass of water, thinking, “Surely I can keep a few sips of water down.” It sounds ridiculous now, but when even water won’t stay down, it becomes quite frightening. We all take drinking water for granted until suddenly we can’t. This started the morning after injection 6, and it continued for 4 full days, where I was holding nothing down at all.
By that point, I wasn’t thinking about weight loss at all. I wasn’t thinking about calories, healthy eating or whether the scales might show a loss that week. All I cared about was getting through the day without feeling awful.
My family could see it too. I wasn’t myself at all. Normally I’m busy, chatting, working on the blog or planning something, but instead I was exhausted and spending most of my time either in bed, on the sofa or in the bathroom. I had no energy, no interest in food and no enthusiasm for anything.
That was the moment at the end of the 4th day of constant sickness and diarrhoea that I realised this really wasn’t right, and I needed medical help. I called 111 and ended up at the local Accident and Emergency department. They gave me IV anti-sickness medication and fluids. When I could keep down a glass of water, they sent me home with more of the strong anti-sickness medication.
I had this for a few days and managed a few slices of dry toast and kept water down. A week after that injection (week 6), I started to feel better, and whilst I still felt very delicate, I was holding food down and feeling more like myself again. When my injection day came, I just knew there was no way I could continue on Wegovy. I was only just starting to feel human again! I spoke to the prescriber, who said that some people have these reactions and GLP-1s are just not suitable for them. She said there has been some genetic testing around this, but nothing has been concluded yet.
The medication that I had hoped would help improve my health had reached the point where it had made me really unwell and extremely dehydrated. Whilst I know many people get on brilliantly with Wegovy, I had to be honest with myself. If I couldn’t even keep water down, this wasn’t something I could simply push through and hope would get better. I couldn’t risk continuing on the medication.
My Dosage on Wegovy
One thing you might wonder is if the dosage was the problem with Wegovy. I had it prescribed after being referred through the NHS, so I was confident it was being done properly. I started on 0.25ml for 4 weeks; the only issue I had on that was the queasiness the day after each injection, which was totally bearable.
Then I moved onto 0.5ml, my first week on that was absolutely fine and much the same as on the 0.25ml. The second dose of 0.5ml was when things went downhill quickly.
One thing you should know about Wegovy, before using Wegovy or any other weight loss injection, is that the doses are different and 0.25ml of Wegovy isn’t the same as 0.25ml of Mounjaro. Just as ibuprofen and paracetamol have different doses, so do weight-loss injections.
Why I Stopped Taking Wegovy
Making the decision to stop Wegovy wasn’t nearly as straightforward as you might think. Looking back now, it seems obvious. If a medication is making you so unwell that you can’t keep water down, of course, you stop taking it. But when you’re actually in that situation, it isn’t always that simple.
Part of me didn’t want to stop.
That probably sounds strange after everything I’ve written about how ill I became, but there were genuine positives too. For the first time in years, food felt quieter. I wasn’t constantly thinking about my next meal. I wasn’t battling cravings in the same way. I was eating smaller portions without feeling deprived and I was losing weight.
In many ways, Wegovy was doing exactly what it was supposed to do. I think that’s what made the decision so difficult. If it had done nothing at all, stopping would have been easy. If I’d taken it for six weeks and seen no changes, I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about walking away. The problem was that I had seen changes. Some of them had been surprisingly positive.
I remember feeling frustrated because it felt as though I’d finally found something that addressed the mental side of weight loss, only for my body to decide it wasn’t going to cooperate. At the same time, though, I couldn’t ignore how unwell I was becoming.
By that point, I wasn’t living my life normally. I wasn’t focusing on healthy habits, exercise or looking after myself. I was simply trying to get through the day without being sick. The excitement I’d felt when I started Wegovy had completely disappeared and been replaced by worry about whether I’d manage to eat or drink properly.
The more I thought about it, the more I realised I’d lost sight of why I’d started taking it in the first place. I didn’t start Wegovy because I wanted to be thinner at any cost. I started it because I wanted to improve my health. I wanted to feel better physically and mentally. I wanted a healthier relationship with food.
Instead, I was feeling exhausted, dehydrated and miserable. That’s when I knew the balance had shifted. For me, the side effects had become bigger than the benefits. That doesn’t mean Wegovy is a bad medication. It clearly helps many people, and I know many have had fantastic results with it. My experience doesn’t take away from theirs.
But one of the things I’ve learned over the years, both through weight loss and through life in general, is that something can be the right choice for one person and completely the wrong choice for someone else. Stopping Wegovy wasn’t admitting defeat or giving up. It was simply recognising that my body was telling me something wasn’t right and deciding to listen.
Once I’d made that decision, I actually felt relieved. Disappointed, yes, because I had hoped it would work for me long-term, but also relieved. I no longer felt like I had to keep pushing through and hoping things would improve. Sometimes looking after your health means starting a treatment. Sometimes it means stopping one. For me, stopping Wegovy was the right decision.
The Good Things About Wegovy
Although my experience with Wegovy ultimately ended sooner than I had hoped, I don’t want this article to come across as though it was entirely negative because that wouldn’t be an honest reflection of what happened.
There were genuine positives, and some of them surprised me.
The biggest benefit, without question, was the reduction in food noise. Before Wegovy, I hadn’t fully appreciated how much of my day was occupied by thoughts about food. It wasn’t until those thoughts became quieter that I realised how exhausting they had been. For the first time in years, I wasn’t constantly thinking about what I was going to eat next or having endless internal conversations about whether I should have a snack. That mental freedom was probably the most valuable thing I gained from the whole experience.
I also found myself naturally eating smaller portions. What was interesting was that it didn’t feel forced. I wasn’t relying on willpower or trying to ignore hunger. I simply felt satisfied sooner. There were times when I left food on my plate because I’d had enough, and that felt completely normal rather than like I was depriving myself of something.
Meals also seemed to keep me full for longer. I wasn’t spending my afternoons thinking about what I could nibble on, and I wasn’t counting down the minutes until the next meal. It felt much easier to make sensible choices because I wasn’t battling hunger all the time.
Perhaps the biggest surprise, though, was how much Wegovy changed the way I think about obesity. Having spent years losing weight, regaining weight and writing about healthy living, I thought I understood the challenges of weight management. What this experience taught me was that there is often a huge mental side to obesity that isn’t talked about enough. The constant background chatter about food, cravings and eating can be exhausting, and experiencing life with less of that noise helped me understand why medications like Wegovy can be so life-changing for some people.
The Difficult Things About Wegovy
Unfortunately, the positives were only part of the story.
From fairly early on, I experienced some nausea. At first, it was more of an annoyance than anything else. I felt a bit queasy at times, but it seemed like a small price to pay for the benefits I was seeing. I told myself it was probably just my body adjusting and that things would settle down.
The biggest problem was that the side effects got worse.
In week six, the vomiting and diarrhoea started and were severe enough to affect my day-to-day life. This wasn’t a case of feeling a little under the weather or needing an early night. I was genuinely unwell. The point where I struggled to keep even water down was when I realised this was not something I could simply push through.
That was also when I started worrying about dehydration. We often hear about nausea and digestive issues as common side effects of Wegovy, but when you can’t comfortably drink water, it becomes much more serious. That was the moment I stopped thinking about weight loss and started thinking about my overall health.
Whilst I know many people take Wegovy without experiencing side effects as severe as mine, it’s important for me to be honest about what happened. My experience wasn’t all positive, and it wasn’t all negative. The reality was somewhere in the middle. Wegovy gave me valuable insights into my relationship with food and helped me understand food noise in a way I never had before, but it also made me ill enough that I eventually decided it wasn’t the right treatment for me.
What Nobody Told Me About Wegovy
Looking back now, there are a few things I wish I’d understood before I started Wegovy. Not because they would have stopped me from trying it, but because I think I would have been a little better prepared for the experience.
The first is that food noise is absolutely real.
I know I’ve already talked about it in this article, but it genuinely surprised me how much of a difference it made. Before Wegovy, I don’t think I appreciated just how much brain space food was taking up. Because it had always been there, it just felt normal. It wasn’t until those thoughts became quieter that I realised how exhausting they had actually been.
The second thing is that side effects don’t necessarily happen in a neat, predictable way. When I started Wegovy, I expected that if I was going to have side effects, they’d appear straight away and either improve or stay the same. That wasn’t my experience at all. The first few weeks felt manageable and I actually started to think I was one of the lucky ones who wasn’t going to struggle too much. Unfortunately, that wasn’t how things turned out. My worst side effects came later, and that caught me completely off guard.
I also think social media can sometimes give a slightly unrealistic picture of what taking Wegovy is really like. That’s not because people are deliberately misleading anyone. It’s just human nature to share the exciting milestones and success stories. We see the weight-loss updates, the before-and-after photos, and the celebrations when someone reaches a goal. What we don’t always see are the difficult days, the worries, the side effects, or the moments when someone questions whether they can continue.
Perhaps the biggest thing I learned is that Wegovy isn’t magic.
I don’t mean that in a negative way because it clearly helps a lot of people. What I mean is that it doesn’t suddenly make all your struggles disappear. It doesn’t fix years of emotional eating habits overnight, and it doesn’t solve every challenge that comes with managing your weight. It’s a tool, and for many people it’s a very useful one, but it isn’t a miracle cure.
Do I Think Wegovy Failed?
This is something I’ve thought about quite a lot since stopping it.
When people ask whether Wegovy worked for me, my answer is actually more complicated than a simple yes or no.
In many ways, it did work. It reduced my appetite. It helped me feel fuller. It quietened the constant chatter in my head about food. It gave me an understanding of food noise that I don’t think I would have gained any other way. If those were the only things I was measuring, I’d have to say it was successful.
The problem wasn’t that Wegovy didn’t do what it was supposed to do. The problem was that my body didn’t tolerate it well enough for me to continue taking it. Those are two very different things.
I think that’s an important distinction because it’s easy to look at my experience and assume the medication was a complete failure. It wasn’t. It simply wasn’t the right fit for me personally.
Would I Take Wegovy Again?
This is probably the question I imagine you are wondering now you have read my experience.
The honest answer is no.
That isn’t because I think Wegovy is a bad medication or because I think nobody should take it. Far from it. I’ve spoken to people who have had incredible results and very few side effects, and I’m genuinely pleased for them.
For me, though, the experience became dangerous.
Once I reached the point where I couldn’t keep food or water down, the balance shifted. The benefits that had felt so exciting in the early weeks were no longer outweighing the impact the side effects were having on my life.
Do I wish it had worked differently for me? Absolutely.
I would have loved to have kept the quieter mind, the reduced food noise and the easier relationship with food. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that improving your health shouldn’t come at the expense of your wellbeing.
Stopping Wegovy wasn’t a failure. It wasn’t giving up. It was simply recognising that, whilst the medication was helping in some ways, it was also making me far too unwell to continue.
If I could go back in time, I’d still try it because I learned so much from the experience. But knowing what I know now, I would still make exactly the same decision to stop.
Tips If You’re Starting Wegovy
If you’re considering Wegovy, here’s what I’d suggest:
- Follow medical advice carefully.
- Stay hydrated.
- Prioritise protein.
- Don’t compare your progress to others.
- Be honest about side effects.
- Seek medical advice if symptoms become severe.
- Remember that everyone’s experience is different.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long did you take Wegovy?
I took Wegovy for six weeks before stopping due to side effects.
How do you know how to inject Wegovy?
There are lots of instructions in the box with the pens and needles but also through my prescriber. It is pretty simple and you inject either into your thigh or tummy (avoiding area too close to belly button).
Did Wegovy help with food noise?
Yes. This was the biggest benefit I experienced.
Did you lose weight on Wegovy?
Yes, but the side effects eventually outweighed the benefits for me.
What side effects did you have?
I experienced nausea at first which was bearable. Then after 6 weeks I got sulphur burps, severe diarrhoea and severe vomiting.
Why did you stop taking Wegovy?
I became so unwell that I struggled to keep even water down. I was extremely dehydrated and quite ill.
Would you recommend Wegovy?
That’s a decision that should be made with a healthcare professional. My experience was difficult, but many people have positive results.
Do you regret trying Wegovy?
No. It taught me a lot about my relationship with food and helped me understand food noise in a way I never had before.
How much weight did you lose on Wegovy?
In the first 5 weeks, I lost around one stone. In week 6, I lost about 6lb, but this was due to the severe diarrhoea and vomiting, when they stopped, and I was back to eating again, I regained 4lb of that as my stomach and bowels were no longer completely empty! In the 5 weeks before I started Wegovy, when I was just eating healthier, I lost 9lb. So whilst Wegovy did help me lose a little more, I wouldn’t say the difference was outstanding.
My Overall Thoughts
When I started Wegovy, I hoped it might be the answer to both my weight struggles and the constant thoughts about food that seemed to take up so much space in my head. In some ways, it was.
For the first time in years, I understood what people meant when they talked about food noise. The mental battle around food became quieter, and that alone taught me a huge amount about my relationship with eating and weight management.
Unfortunately, the side effects became too severe for me to continue. As disappointed as I was, I knew that feeling so unwell wasn’t something I could ignore.
Whilst Wegovy wasn’t the long-term solution I had hoped for, I don’t regret trying it. It helped me understand that managing your weight and losing weight is about far more than willpower and that what works brilliantly for one person won’t necessarily work for another.
For me, stopping Wegovy was the right decision. And sometimes making the right decision for your health is every bit as important as seeing a smaller number on the scales.
Please remember this article shares my experience only as supported by the NHS and with medical guidance throughout. All experiences are my own and do not constitute any medical advice.
Would you have done the same as me? Have you tried Wegovy and want to share your experience? Let me know in the comments below.
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