I hear it can cause your stomach to stop working
Is that a bad thing?
“I hear it can cause your stomach to stop working”
yep, and it’s called gastroparesis ...
I take Mounjaro. It’s principle effect is to shrink your stomach. In my case, I take it before bed Friday night, the effect is kicking in by about 12 hours later, and peaks about 24-28 hours later.
What this means is that if I stuff myself Saturday evening, I will feel nauseous and possibly vomit in the wee hours Sunday morning—because I have eaten more food than my now shrunken stomach can hold.
The solution is simple. Don’t eat a lot on Saturday, and particularly for dinner. I will either have a salad, or perhaps a few slices of deli roast beef and a little cottage cheese. As long as you don’t eat an amount that exceeds your (smaller) stomach capacity, you don’t get side effects.
I figured that out within a month or two of when I first started taking it (about 4 years ago) and have had no issues since.