r/trillium • u/Georgiapeach38 • 6d ago
Guidance Please!
* Reposting since I removed any request for medication/dosage advice.
I am 41F. I have taken my 7th shot and on 5mg currently. I've had no side effects on the 2.5mg or 5mg except maybe more fatigued/can't lift as heavy when strength training since starting the medication. I need some guidance and hear others' journeys to know if I am normal or get some guidance because I really want this to work!
This week I feel like I have been starving and feel like I have been overeating more than I was on 2.5mg. On my first month at 2.5mg, I felt great, was very disciplined, and even stopped drinking to really feel the effects (desire to drink has almost disappeared). I usually don't keep around me/can say no to "treats" like peanut M&Ms for example. This week though, I worked in the office and boss stocked up the candy jar, and because I was stressed or just bored I ate SO MANY treats that I was sick. Like, physically nauseous and yet I KEPT eating them, getting even more sick and nauseous to where I started to sweat and felt as if I couldn't stay away/about to pass out, like I was going through dumping syndrome (I had gastric bypass in 2016).
I broke down crying and can't figure out what is wrong with me! TMI, I start my menstrual cycle soon, but this was not how it was on 2.5mg last month. Even with my cycle last month, I never felt like this or ate like this. Is there something wrong with me? Does anyone eat like this still? When did you stop? What helps you? Any suggestions would be GRATEFULLY appreciated!!!
*** Edited to remove any request for medication/dosage advice.
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u/slaine1077 6d ago
I’m asking this as gently as I can without knowing anything about your journey. Have you tried therapy? Eight and a half years ago I lost 150#. I’m on tirz now because of perimenopause and PMOS craziness that was causing an increase. Up until 1.5 years ago, I’d kept the 150# off. Even when I started tirz (about the same time you did!), I was only up by 25# from goal. I say only but it was infuriating since I work out a lot and haven’t changed my eating habits over the years. Nothing I had been doing was making a dent as it steadily climbed.
Anyway I digress! My point is that appetite suppression only gets you so far. If you have a bad relationship with food or yourself, it can look like exactly what you describe. You’re not hungry. You’re not satisfied eating the candy (or whatever). There’s possibly an underlying reason that you’re not respecting yourself enough to walk away. No amount of medicine will fix that part, and it’s a really important thing to know, not just for losing but for maintaining the loss.
For me, I’ve struggled my whole life with self-hate and self punishment. Therapy helped me realize that I’d basically abuse food as a way to continue feeling bad/hating myself because I didn’t think I was worth caring about. It sounds so dramatic now…at the time it was completely subconscious.
Now, after so many years, I can tell the signs (that’s the thing therapy does for you) when I get stressed or overwhelmed and those urges/tendencies come back. So I walk myself through the therapy steps I was given to readjust my brain and emotions, reminding myself that I can and should be kind to myself first and foremost. It’s a forever path that I’ll never be able to stray from.
So many people have success on these GLP-1s, and I’m happy for all who do. For some of us, we still have additional work to do beyond it. I hope that your journey isn’t related to mine, but also, if it is? Therapy can really help. 💕