Vomiting on Wegovy - how I solved it
Hi all, I wanted to share my experience dealing with vomiting on Wegovy. I've noted it's a common reported side effect and I nearly went mad trying to work out how to stop mine since I've had such good results otherwise from the drug.
Once I got up to ~1mg a week dose I would find 2-3 days after my dose that I would experience the "sulfur burps" and that once those happened it wasn't a matter of if, but when I would begin bringing up everything in my stomach - even water once it fully started. The only solution was ondansetron - nothing else worked.
Through process of elimination I established that my issue was sugar-free drinks. I initially thought it was just Pepsi Max but I worked out eventually that it was everything, including energy drinks. 3 weeks without any artificially sweetened drinks and while I still have a day or so of foul-tasting burps every week I've not had any issue with throwing up.
I don't know exactly why but I suspect it's the acesulfame potassium component of the sweeteners.
Hopefully this might help someone else having the same issue!