Category: Side Effects

Before I started on a GLP-1 medication, I did my research. I read the patient information leaflet. I looked up the clinical trials. I knew about nausea, constipation, and the injection site reactions. What I was not prepared for was everything else. The stuff that doesn’t make it into the official literature — the experiences…

Nobody told me I’d be tired. Not just a little tired — the kind of tiredness where you sit down at 3pm and genuinely wonder if you can make it to dinner. In the first few weeks on my GLP-1 medication, fatigue crept up on me in a way I hadn’t anticipated at all. If…

Nausea is the side effect that nobody fully prepares you for. You read the leaflet, you see it listed, you think “I’ll probably be fine” — and then week two hits and you’re staring at a plate of food you used to love, feeling like you’ve just stepped off a fairground ride. If this is…

When I first noticed extra hair in the shower drain a few months into my GLP-1 journey, I panicked. Nobody had warned me about this. I’d read about nausea, about the appetite changes, about the injection site reactions — but hair loss? That was a surprise I really didn’t need on top of everything else.…