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400lbs is pretty dangerous- you should see if you can get those drugs covered. There are manufacturer coupons.

I have really bad sleep apnea and allergies that can make it hard to treat with a cpap. My doctor recommended a GLP1 for that, and it really helped the sleep apnea. It also is managing some weight gain that I experienced from steroids for bronchitis. The sleep apnea improvement has actually been separate from weight loss..that got better before my weight went down.

The side effects are really minor for a lot of people including me. I get weird occasional nausea for like 10 minutes a few times a week. Really not bad. It also makes you constipated but that's easy to treat.

Some people apparently feel like total shit, but not most people.

It works by just making you less hungry. You eat a normal amount of food and then you're full. It's really that simple. I thought it would make me not enjoy food- couldn't have been more wrong. Maybe if your main enjoyment of food is like eating 3 costco cheese pizzas- sure you can't do that, but tasty food is just as good as before.

The biggest thing for me is that I dont have to FUCKING think about food so much. I have ADHD and a little bit of hunger is extremely distracting and derailing which has caused a lot of weight gain. Now I don't care if I'm a little hungry. Now I can notice I'm a bit hungry, and just ignore it and go to bed, and I won't feel like shit from not eating.

The one other side effect is that your body, being designed to eat food, will try to find other ways to get you to eat... Now instead of hunger pangs when I haven't eaten, I get really sleepy. Like super sleepy. Black coffee doesn't really wake me up, sugar does. By the way, drinking calories is the one way to still gain weight on these drugs, so use sugar water as an emergency wakeup supplement when you gotta drive or whatever, and otherwise don't drink it.

Ignore the stigma, it's stupid and insane. Rich actors are using it to lose 15 pounds, but you are almost 400 pounds. That's unsafe and probably such a fucking shitty painful way to live. These drugs aren't magic but no drug is. Don't beat yourself up, take the best medicine for what ails you. Hoping to lose weight doesnt work, trying really hard doesn't work. Dieting makes you gain weight more often than it makes you lose it. These crazy new drugs actually do shit. I would never risk taking them to lose 15lbs but they are definitely less risky than being 380 or whatever. That much is clear by now.