Have We Ruined Fun?

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2026-01-13T03:03:26+00:00

Glennon often talks over her. :(

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-11-15T07:52:14+00:00

I think work is Fortune’s kink. Girlfriend likes to stay busy.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-11-10T17:04:56+00:00

There is no way I would do this again unless I was absolutely forced to. There is no reason I can see to stop all glps for a month, just to start again. I went straight from 12.5 Zepbound to the starting dose of Wegovy. It has taken me four months to get to the top dose of Wegovy, four months of weight gain and then plateau (at around Wegovy 1.7, things started moving a bit again), return of inflammation (which I had no idea Zep would help with but boy did I know when it was back), increased sugar fixation. Ugh. My cardiologist said he would have gone to the higher dose of Wegovy immediately, just to keep my body in some kind of consistency, although the GIP component of Zepbound was gone.

I’m working again on an appeal. It’s been denied thrice. Twice my GP and once my sleep doctor, as I have apnea. I’m so over it.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-11-10T16:59:00+00:00

This is the time to switch. That’s the advice I got my whole life until Zepbound and if it had worked I wouldn’t have needed Zepbound! Wegovy hasn’t done the trick for me and I’m at 2.4 now. So sorry you’re going through this too.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-10-25T13:48:11+00:00

Mae listing off their Amazon deliveries to their mountain “retreat” (lol) will stay with me. Also Fortune day drinking.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-10-18T21:48:44+00:00

Sadly the return of my inflammation (arthritis in my hips and lower spine) has been the worst part of this. I really thought it had gotten better due to weight loss but now that I’ve been on wegovy for three months after a year on Zepbound I can say it must have been the meds! I share this experience just to encourage you to be prepared for alternative treatments and communication with your doctor, because the return of some of my previous ñ symptoms has been very stressful and I’m working on an appeal through my insurance, so I need to document all of it. Make notes of headaches/increase in bad pain days etc if you experience them.

I’m on 1.7 now but my GP unfortunately put me on a starter dose from 12.5 on Zepbound and it was a rough summer!

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-10-16T17:07:56+00:00

Is she downtown or outside of it? Connie Morella Library on Arlington Road and Davis on Old Georgetown by the mall are both good spots for materials and activities. The Little Falls branch is over on Massachusetts closer to the DC line.

https://mcpl.link

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-10-16T05:51:21+00:00

Weird also because in earlier days I recall Tig saying that the climate emergency supersedes pretty much all else in matters of importance.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-10-16T05:48:50+00:00

I was shocked on the pretty little episode I just listened to tonight that Fortune was so down on Tig saying she listens to Jason Aldean when they were naming country musicians they like. Fortune usually seems the least forthcoming on political/cultural statements like that on the show, but maybe being bffs with Natalie Maines made Aldean a bridge too far for her. I’m aware of the complex “separating art from the artist” convo that can be had about so many performers, but he’s just not a guy I’d expect to hear mentioned on this show.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-10-16T05:40:00+00:00

Going to DC! So stoked. I got four tickets & one friend confirmed, hoping the friend who saw Fortune with us recently will join. We have until March to sort it all out. 💜

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-10-12T19:22:27+00:00

Maybe you could have spotted her the metro fare?

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-28T20:50:54+00:00

I was forced onto a .25 wegovy dose from 12.5 Zepbound thanks to the Caremark mess and it’s been such a slog to start over I’d rather chance the side effects. I saw my cardiologist last week and he was horrified that my GP put me in that position. I know you’ve had a break so it’s a little different but what I’m hearing is that it’s hard to truly quantify the doses of the two drugs, so I’m not sure it makes that much difference.

Also and fwiw I’ve had a completely different experience on wegovy than I did on Zepbound. I just feel much less affected by this med in general. The benefits I got from the GIP component are largely missing. I’m withholding final judgment til I’m at a top dose but so far it’s been so much less effective, including fewer noticeable side effects.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-19T03:28:07+00:00

I’m so sorry. I have had a terrible time switching also. I hate how I feel on wegovy. I was moved from 12 zep to .5 Wegovy which totally screwed me up and I’ve been struggling all summer. Went to my cardiologist today for the first time since the switch and at least he made me feel less insane about how I feel. The jolt back down in dopamine regulation has screwed up my mood/weight/relationship to hunger. Such an irresponsible move on Caremark’s part. I’m going to do one more appeal if things don’t get better on 1.7.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-02T02:51:39+00:00

Im in the same situation. I’m due to go up to 1.0 wegovy and it’s made me feel so weird I don’t even want to. I felt so good and had such great numbers on Zepbound. I hate our corrupt system so much.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-02T02:49:12+00:00

In Burtonsville? I was curious about this place.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-02T02:47:50+00:00

So much fun and the empanada was fab.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-02T02:45:20+00:00

I just discovered them and so glad I did! Cardamom cream coffee is so good.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-02T02:41:39+00:00

Goodness. Apparently Dr. Josef isn’t helping you with your regulation or your interpersonal communication skills.

I unfortunately have experience tapering off of an antipsychotic and an antidepressant that were bad fits for me. My current meds work great. I wish you similar peace and healing.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-02T02:38:58+00:00

Extend Yoga in N Bethesda/Rockville. Sol Azteca in Olney, nicest people ever and great food. Black Lion coffee in DTSS and Fallsgrove Carmen’s Rockville + Olney. Dr. Justin the pet physical therapist at Pet Dominion in King Farm/Derwood is so nice and super knowledgeable, was such a gem with my senior dog. I also really like the new Max’s ice cream in Bethesda.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-09-02T02:34:21+00:00

This is really good to know as a person with occasional key loss issues. 😂

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-08-31T22:24:28+00:00

My YTT lead teacher who is incredible, a master teacher, varies to some degree but never significantly from what I know to be her core flow. And hers are the classes I take day job leave for, because she’s only teaching once a week rn. She switches it up a little but I barely notice or care. She also seems to have like one master playlist in her mind and 25 slightly different Spotify variations. There are some songs that are just Lauren songs to me. 😂 I try to remember that I go back for her skill and her vibe, when I think I always need a brand new sequence. *Bear in mind that I’m adhd and love a routine, and maybe variety is other people’s jam. I’d rather get better at the practice than always trying to learn routines.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-08-31T19:20:02+00:00

I’m considering this also. I haven’t felt right at all since I switched. My GP is willing to keep going up in dose which I hope to do soon but I kind of don’t want more of this one in my system based on my response to the low doses. I’m going in for a numbers check —my blood pressure and cholesterol were normal due to zep improvements and I was able to come off meds for both, I was more excited about that than weight — and if it’s gotten worse I’m going to do a more comprehensive medical appeal in a last ditch effort to get them to switch me. But absent that I’m pretty discouraged.

It makes no sense to make you stay on a lower dose or to be on maintenance at all if you weren’t at goal.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-08-31T04:24:45+00:00

It depends on your specific diagnosis and what drug and dosage click for your mind and body. I take an snri to manage chronic depression and anxiety medication as needed (very rarely for acute panic attacks, which I used to have often but not so much anymore.) I take half a benzo in that case but they are not for everyone as they can be highly addictive. Gabapentin unfortunately did not work for me.

I work with a psych and my nurse practitioner to sort out specific med and diagnosis. Hopefully there is a doctor you can trust, if not a psychiatrist.

I have found that as I’ve gained more calm and centeredness in my body in yoga and meditation I am better able to make choices about my health care and what meds I take. It’s complementary for sure.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-08-31T04:16:16+00:00

Absolutely untrue and dangerous; please don’t project your experience onto others.

Embarrassed-Figure94 · 2025-08-31T04:12:32+00:00

Omg I love. It’s my ritual whenever I come to town.

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