These symptoms typically occur during dose escalation and often improve as your body adjusts to the medication
Do GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy cause muscle loss
Management of concurrent conditions is equally important: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea, as recommended by NICE Non-invasive ventilation (NIV, typically bilevel positive airway pressure) for obesity hypoventilation syndrome when clinically indicated Bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids if asthma coexists Diuretics and other cardiac medications for heart failure For people with obesity-related breathlessness who do not have chronic respiratory disease, supervised exercise programmes and physiotherapy delivered within weight management services can improve exercise tolerance and teach breathing techniques
In addition to a high socioeconomic burden and significant morbidity/mortality, depression has been ranked as the single largest contributor to global disability and suicide deaths[3,5,10-13]
Fat digestion products can also activate GLP-1, which is why mixed meals often produce a stronger GLP-1 response
Now, I'm no longer in active weight loss and am just trying to maintain my current size, so I space my doses out by about 10 days to two weeks, rather than taking them weekly
