![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurI've long been happy about the fact that I've had little nausea from Ozempic -- that had always been the most worrying side-effect, but it's never really bothered me.
That ended last night. (Content warning for discussion of bodily functions.)
Yesterday, I posted about the glorious dinner we had just had at Yapa, and mentioned that "really, I ate too much, but it was impossible to pass anything up". At the time, that didn't seem to be an issue. Indeed, it wasn't a problem -- until about 2am.
After that, all hell broke loose. Moderate flooding from the bowels, combined with a solid hour of nausea and about ten minutes of dry heaves. It took a couple of hours to get back to sleep, and based on what a zombie I was all day today, I don't think I slept at all well after that.
Today has been one of those delicate-stomach days: not quite nauseous, but decidedly queasy all day. Don't know if that's because my digestion is backed up, or because of the post-nasal drip (see below) or both, but I've had to eat lightly and delicately. Not a tragedy (we didn't have any looked-forward-to dinner plans), but definitely put a damper on my day.
Also, an interesting correlation was observed. All year, I've noticed a weird and annoying new symptom: when I eat a meat of any serious size, my nose runs. I've been attributing that as a COVID side-effect, since it started shortly after my second bout, at the beginning of the year, but of course that's also not too long after I started Ozempic.
Last night, before the guts turned inside-out, my nose went completely haywire. Stuffed up and running like a gusher. I had to take a shot of Afrin to get any sleep.
So now I'm starting to suspect that the nasal symptom is an Ozempic thing somehow. (Waves hands and mutters, "something-something-vagus-nerve".) It's not a major problem, but it is an ongoing annoyance, and seems to get bad proportionally to how much I have eaten.
Anyway: moral of the story is, don't do that. I'm going to need to watch how much I eat when I get a fabulous meal like that. The Ozempic lets me stop when I should, but it doesn't force me to do so -- it just punishes me horribly afterwards.
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-30 01:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-30 02:42 pm (UTC)Not saying you're wrong, but I don't understand the connection, (especially as you are on vacation in a foreign land; there are many factors that might be affecting you.)
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-30 03:42 pm (UTC)Remember, I'm talking specifically about the "nose runs after eating" symptom, which seems to have recurred in vastly-worse form when I overate badly.
That certainly has nothing to do with travel -- I've had this symptom all year. As I mention above, I originally thought it was a COVID thing, but given the apparently close connection to how much I ate, it feels more likely to be related to the change that is, y'know, about my digestion...
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-30 03:48 pm (UTC)