I feel seen. Thank you for that. And I truly hope you (and everyone else who experiences the effects of perpetual hunger) are able to get safe access to these drugs for as long as you need them.
I’ve been overweight my entire life, with the exact same problem. Didn’t matter what I ate, I was always, always hungry. People who do not experience this cannot understand how difficult it is to combat this. I could feel full and still have to eat. When my weight reached 400 pounds nearly 5 years ago an endocrinologist put me on liraglutide, the daily-injection predecessor of Ozempic, then on Ozempic. I lost thirty pounds. Then I moved to the US (Texas) and there was no way to get the drug without OMG-insane levels of cost.
Fast foward to my move to Florida, new incredible doctor, new health plan, new drug (Mounjaro) that combines the effects of Ozempic and another drug, and I have now lost 100lbs and am never, ever hungry. Literally. Never.
This has without question changed my life and I am lucky enough to be able to afford to continue this drug regimen until I lose another hundred pounds at the rate I’m going. If anything, the biggest irony here is that my diabetes is now so well-controlled that I may lose access to the drug because I’m no longer diabetic, before the weight-loss side-effect can fully work its’ magic.
These drugs are the first thing I have ever seen that I would consider a “miracle drug”, but it’s not all hype. I will live vastly longer now thanks to this drug fixing whatever the hell has been broken in my brain my whole life and giving me a path to be healthy.
I can’t even.
