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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by justinbaker84 on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:55PM (#36004138)
That is not what happened to me. I took it for 2 months and then I wanted to get off. I did not go back to normal. Mentally I felt like I needed more food and more junk food than I ever did before using the drug.

My hypothesis is that it supressed my body's natural production of whatever chemical in my brain helps me not go overboard with food. With that supressed by the drug I had an uncontrollable desire for food and currently I am fatter than I was before taking the drug in the first place.

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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by 1123581321 on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:13PM (#36004395)
An interaction with leptin? Or are you just feeling hungry after the side effects wore off?

You also said it stopped working while you were taking it in another post; are you just talking about satiety or one of the other effects like insulin production or glucagon release? Are you diabetic or just overweight?

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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by yamazakiwi on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:30PM (#36004592)
This same thing happened to me when I quit smoking without assistance from a drug.
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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by rolisz on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:32AM (#36010070)
Did you quit cold turkey? Or did you slowly taper it off?

I'm taking Rybelsus (pill form of semaglutide) and there are 3, 7 and 14 mg versions. My plan is to take 14 mg for a couple more months, then switch to 7 mg for 1-2 months and then 3 mg for a month before stopping taking it completely.

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Re:Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more by Ginden on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:11AM (#36010897)
> Mentally I felt like I needed more food and more junk food than I ever did before using the drug

This is consistent with hungry brain hypothesis. Your hypothalamus detects that you have less body fat than amount set on "lipostat" and it tries to get fat content back to this set amount.

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