I stopped Ozempic and this is what happened to me!!! Diabetic tells the good, bad and ugly.

hey guys mila the hangry woman here and today i am doing a video that you have asked me for over and over and over but it had to wait because it needed time and so today i am finally doing this video that is my experience two months after i've gotten fully off of ozempic and trulicity [Music] if you're new here i'm mila i make videos for people with diabetes so that we can feel less shame less judgment less confusion around our illness i myself live with latent autoimmune diabetes and adults which is a slow progressing form of type 1 diabetes i have lots of videos on my channel about it if you have ever heard of lata or if you don't really know what lata is so it's a really interesting face to be in in my diabetes management not quite autoimmune diabetes but also not quite insulin resistant diabetes a little bit different of a mix and lots of figuring out that's where ozempic and truelicity came in for me but if you like videos that highlight what life with diabetes is like or answer some questions about experiences that you may encounter follow this everything so follow my instagram follow my website at hangrywoman.com i'm the hangry woman all over the internet and then also be sure to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe and with that let's get to it i want to really just like detail what has happened in these past couple of months since i got off of ozempic as some of you know i have videos detailing my entire journey on ozempic so i took it for about 10 months i ended up kind of doing videos at i think like the two month mark six months and then again later at the 10-month mark when i decided it was no longer for me and it was just like something that i could not handle and so to go back a little bit rewind the reason that i got off of ozempic in the first place was because i was experiencing heart palpitations and i actually didn't experience them at first on the very like lowest dose of ozempic i started out on the 0.25 dose which is just to get you used to it went up to 0.5 didn't do well on 0.5 so went back down to 0.25 then again went back up to 0.5 just like back and forth um and as i kind of like got settled into the 0.5 dose which is still the very lowest dose like that's therapeutically available for you to take i started to have heart palpitations shortness of breath chest pains i couldn't sleep through the night and it really felt to me like it was correlated with my ozempic and when i had had a doctor's visit where i had kind of like an overall physical my primary care doctor said hey we did an ekg for you and it looks like you have mild sinus tachycardia do you know what this could be from or why because they had already had me on kind of like preventative cholesterol medication and things like that and so i was like i really don't know like i am pretty stressed out but i don't know like i don't think that it would be causing tachycardia like that seems pretty serious and so i had a heart ultrasound i did like all this stuff and nothing came back abnormal everything was totally normal totally fine and so my endo said we'll just keep taking it and i finally got to a point where i was like i can't anymore like i don't want to hop on my peloton where my heart is already beating at 130 beats per minute and i haven't even started pedaling i am getting very anxious about the shortness of breath i'm starting to have these like random chest pains and like it just doesn't feel good and i don't want to do it and so i had the conversation over and over and over with my doctor for months before he finally said okay let's try something else which he moved me on to trulicity that ended up being even worse for me in terms of heart palpitations and so i lasted like maybe two injections on that and then i was completely finished and i was like i don't want to do this anymore like just put me on insulin please like that put me on mealtime insulin that's what's gonna be best for me and so that's the path that i'm on right now so no uh glp ones like ozempic or trulicity i'm taking insulin full time so i'm taking a basal insulin called traceba and that lasts 24 hours in my body and it just is kind of like the basal rate of insulin for me and then i am also taking a fast-acting insulin called lumiev and it is just what i take at meal time so i carb count bolus for my meals or i can go back and do sliding scale corrections and so right now that's working really well for me my numbers are very well controlled in that sense but there are lots of things that i'm sure you're wondering like okay well if you got off of ozempic did you gain all the weight back did you did the heart palpitations go away did the nausea go away did like you know all of these things kind of subside and the answers to that are all different and so i'll walk through them and i think the first question on everybody's mind is always weight loss did i keep the weight loss going did i keep it off or did i gain it all back i actually ended up losing more weight off of ozempic which i was truly surprised about i stopped ozempic in the middle of september and from that point until right now it's almost the last day of november i've lost another 15 pounds so it's been pretty good i haven't needed ozempic to continue the weight loss and unlike what i suspected i thought that i was going to just immediately gain all of the weight back because i thought that it was really the medicine that was helping me with the weight loss but it truly lowered my appetite and even off of ozempic i didn't start to get like super hungry again i didn't get this like crazy insatiable appetite like i had once had and that surprised me also because going on insulin i thought it's going to make me hungrier it's going to make me gain weight that's what happens to everybody going on insulin and it actually hasn't like my appetite hasn't been this crazy insatiable appetite it's actually kind of stayed what it was with ozempic and because of the uh smaller meals that i was eating more frequently and like not just having like you know big giant meals all the time for like three meals a day like i was eating smaller meals because it was helping with the nausea and so i've kind of continued that pattern and i think that's also been really helpful because i cannot eat a lot like per meal i really have to structure it into smaller bites smaller portions i'm still eating roughly the same amount of calories i'm tracking and eating about like 1400 to 1500 a day and then along with exercise there's also that deficit i'm exercising like i was before about three to four times a week and so like honestly aside from maybe like the timing of the portions my actual lifestyle hasn't changed all that much but i'm still seeing the weight loss effects of it and so you know i always say this in my videos like i don't know if you can tell i know somebody's gonna be like oh cause total weight loss like from the time that i was on ozempic until now this like two month period after is about 45 pounds and so i know people are gonna be like that's not a lot for a year like it happens in every single video i make there's always somebody in the comments section who says it who says i'm eating big macs who says it doesn't make sense that she's not losing the weight that i think she should lose because of x y and z thing that i have you know in my subconscious and the thing is is that every body is different some people don't even lose weight on ozempic some people are just able to manage their blood sugars some people lose an intense amount of weight on ozempic some people you know don't have the appetite suppression some people don't have any of the side effects like it affects everybody so differently that i'm just sharing my experience because it's not going to be the universal experience but i think it's important to see just what people go through and when we talk about it and we put it out there it kind of gives people an idea of possibly what to expect with a grain of salt and so i think that's really important and why i share these videos but i think in terms of the weight loss aspect i am still losing i'm not gaining and that is actually very surprising especially being on insulin because it's really easy to gain weight on insulin i am i wouldn't say that i'm limiting my carbs at all because now that i'm taking insulin like i just correct for what i need so i'm probably right now eating about 40 grams of carbs or less per meal that's a little higher than where i was before before i was eating 20 to 30. now i've allowed myself a little bit more because i have the ability to correct that doesn't mean necessarily more calories for me it just means more carbohydrates and adjusting my insulin doses at that point so i think that's also really important to recognize um i feel like i've gotten a lot happier in this process because i don't feel like i am using food restriction as a tool to manage my blood sugars as much anymore and i feel like i was doing that a lot before and that was very hard for me coming from a place where i have had disordered eating and i have kind of like lived that life of like counting every little thing and i still have to count it i still have to like understand how many carbs i'm eating but with the correction factor and like the ability to adjust i feel like it's a lot healthier of a relationship with food i am getting to know my food a lot better i am you know able to kind of like look at something and be like here's the carb count for that here's how much insulin i need to take for it so i think that that has changed the way i'm eating in a healthier way instead of me feeling like i have to restrict food not eat to make sure that my blood sugars are in line um you know eat the tiniest little portions and not enjoy my food at all like things like that so i am very happy with that switch i'm very happy that like the weight loss has continued and i don't feel like i'm being deprived that's one thing that i think has changed my quality of life a lot in these past two months and it's just made me overall a happier person as far as side effects practically as soon as i stopped taking ozempic and truelicity my heart rate was the biggest thing like i had gotten over the nausea i had gotten over like the diarrhea and stomach issues and all of that stuff but the one thing that just kept happening to me was the heart palpitations and literally like within the week that i quit each one of them like i quit ozempic and then i took truelicity in place of it the next week and then i did another injection of trulicity um and then i just couldn't take it anymore so i stopped after that and probably like within the two weeks that i stopped taking it the heart palpitations were gone my heart rate went from being like 120 sometimes 130 at resting so like if i was sitting here and had my apple watch on and i had been taking it my heart rate would have been 120 or 130 just sitting it was it was abysmal it was like just so bad and just it felt awful like every day i felt like i was gonna die to be quite honest like i felt like i was gonna my heart was just gonna like jump out of my chest i didn't know what to do like it was bad i don't know if anybody has ever else had that situation but it was just not a good time for me and so i finally said like not doing it anymore within that two weeks my heart rate had lowered to like the lower 70s and so resting my heart rate is usually like anywhere from 75 to 80 beats per minute which is absolutely normal and i don't have those heart palpitations i don't wake up sweating in the middle of the night i don't wake up with shortness of breath i'm able to sleep all the way through the night i can exercise without being winded or you know like just the things that i think for like a 30 something year old person are very normal i feel like my body has gotten way back to normal which is helpful to me and i feel like that's something that is um just good overall like i actually feel good and i don't feel i don't know i'm not like in pain or not feeling like tired or like like it's a labor to breathe like i actually feel good so i think that that is definitely one thing that had come of that i think something else that was really important to me in terms of getting off of it was like would my blood sugars stabilize and i think because we put insulin in place of ozempic my blood sugar still did stay stable like i said before i think they're actually in a better place now because i'm having more control with the insulin and i'm not having nearly as much insulin resistance which is also really good something else that happened earlier in the summer that i i want to say i mentioned in a video is that i also got off of birth control and so i was taking birth control i had an arm implant um just because at the time wasn't ready for kids my a1c was not in a good place diabetes is not in a good place for me to be able to safely be pregnant and so i got off birth control and that also i think helped level things out and i wasn't seeing as much insulin resistance because i wasn't having like the same reactions and so now my insulin needs are a bit less like i was able to decrease them even from when i was on ozempic and i also am able to have just steadier blood sugars overall not as many roller coasters and so ozempic helped me in that way as well i originally had not taken it for weight loss i had taken it for blood sugar management it was actually doing a really great job of that but now that i have kind of adjusted other things in other areas it seems like things are going a lot better and like i'm having some steadier like you know it's it's steadier like everything is just better health-wise and it's i don't think it's you know just like me getting off ozempic that did that but it's the very particular adjustments that my care team has made for me to be able to manage blood sugars and so as i've said before you know if i could go back on ozempic i would to be honest it is an easy injection it's once a week you don't even have to it's like no frills you don't do anything with it you have your one injection every single week and you don't have to think about it till the next week it does a really good job of managing your blood sugars all of that but for me personally it just did not agree with my body and that is like such a shame because it actually worked like when i needed it to work it worked but i do feel like the after effects of it and the kind of like i would say like aftershocks is what i would call it like those things for me still made it worth it like i still have like a little bit less of an appetite my blood sugars are still pretty stable and in range i'm still losing weight and so um you know at this point it's out of my system out of my body it's been two months more than two months so it's not you know a residual effect from the medication it's just kind of like my body got used to that state that it was in and now it's still kind of in that state and so i actually think that that is a good thing and that's okay and it's helping my blood sugar numbers to stabilize and normalize um it's helping me get to a good goal weight although i will say that i'm you know after i visited the endo my last appointment in september where i got off of ozempic i was in probably aside from my a1c it was a little higher than we wanted it to be but i was in the best physical health of my life cholesterol numbers were fine kidney function was fine liver function was fine everything was good and so i think that that is really important to also note is that the weight thing for me is truly physical because everything else is okay everything else is fine so i think it's you know just something i want to do because i want to do it because i'm on youtube and people make comments and you know in my past and in my history there's insecurity there about how i look and it definitely determines how i feel i know that people are going to leave really nice comments about that because you guys always do but it's just how i feel so i think you know weight loss is still a goal for me because of that and it might not be the best reason for it to be a goal for me because otherwise i'm healthy it's not something that i have to obsess about and not something that i'm trying to obsess about but it is something that's just on my mind overall but i also wanted to shed some clarity on the fact that you know even taking ozempic weight loss wasn't the goal it was an extra bonus the blood sugar management was the goal and i was able to achieve that but the side effects were just too much for me and so the weight loss happened to be secondary but that's the thing that everybody focuses on every single time and so i have to address it basically but overall like i said i feel like i would recommend ozempic to somebody who has those goals in mind if you're looking for blood sugar stability if you're looking for potential weight loss but just be wary that the side effects can be really difficult to deal with and they are for a lot of people but yeah that's it if there's anything else that you guys want to know leave it down in the comments below i'm always happy to make another video about this with comments and questions that you have um it's just interesting to me i think at this point what it had done and this you know it being november would kind of be like the full circle if i would have stayed on it and so i've basically made about a year of osimpick videos so that you guys can see what it's like from start to finish i'm not the typical person who took it i stayed on pretty much the lowest dose the whole time i never increased because we were just uncomfortable with what the side effects might look like like i stayed on point five most of the time and you know we thought about doing an increase to one milligram but at the end of the day it was just like the heart palpitations were too much on point five and so amanda was like let's just keep you where you are and see what happens there so incrementally my a1c got lower and lower but i didn't use the medication to its full potential because of the side effects for me personally so some people don't have that problem some people can make it through it and it's really not a big deal that just wasn't the case for me unfortunately so i ended up getting off of it but i can say that getting off of it it actually was a good decision for me overall and it didn't negatively impact my health after getting off of it so you know i didn't have like i said huge weight gain swings or you know my blood sugars didn't go haywire and go crazy it actually got better with tighter control with a different course of treatment and so those are just the things that i think are super important to really think about as you're deciding what you want to do the heart palpitations are a known side effect i didn't know that they were a known side effect when i made my previous videos when my endo and i talked about it he didn't know that it was a known side effect he read the literature he like tried to find out like the you know in the time period that i told him like six months ago that i felt like this was happening to me um and so now it's more well known it's more well established and you know people know that you can potentially get heart palpitations and increased heart rate and sometimes tachycardia with this class of medications it's just par for the course if you can take that and you don't feel anxiety about it then go for it but if it's something that you may feel like i don't know like the symptoms were too physical to me to not feel anxiety and i just had to say like peace like i cannot do it so you know obviously you have to make the decision that's right for you and that's right for yourself but you can always ask your doctor for all of the information ask all of the questions that you have and just understand it fully understand it through and through and know that you can always stop taking it if it's not something that ends up working for you um and for me i didn't have you know negative side effects when i stopped it it actually i think kind of made things better so that's that's pretty much all that i have for y'all that's all that i have to say about it like i said before any questions just leave them down in the comments below i can either do like an instagram story with all the gathered questions or i can do a quick youtube video addressing some of the additional questions that y'all have or a blog post or whatever so i am always happy to answer questions and happy to hear like what you think and how you feel and if you've had the same experience so please also just leave comments down below and let me know how this went for you if you're in the process of getting off of ozempic what that has been like for you or if you're you're just watching because you're curious like if i take this for a long time and then i get off of it what happens hopefully this tells you what can happen um it's not the end-all be-all experience i don't think i've seen any other videos on youtube about what it's like to stop taking these medications but you know hopefully if i'm the first i'm not the last and other people will talk about their experiences as well because i think it's really meaningful to be able to hear what other people are going through even if it's not the exact same thing that you're going through okay guys that's it for this video thank you so much for watching be sure to catch my ozempic playlist it has every video from the first few months that i was taking it all the way till now an entire year later and i just hope that you guys enjoy i hope that you get some good information out of it and i also hope that it is helpful to you in making a decision about what you want to do and what you want to ask your doctor for at the end of the day it's always up to you it's your health it's your body it's your medications it's what you want to do so it's important to be as informed as you possibly can be so you can ask all the questions and you can be comfortable with whatever decision that you make thanks for taking the time to watch y'all and i will see you in the next one bye

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Length: 22min 56sec (1376 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 06 2022