Slower on tirzepatide — anyone else

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.