"I am so uncomfortable, and I want to leave. I'm trying not to."

"I hate what Ozempic has done to my partner.

My partner jumped on the Ozempic trend about two years ago. She was not prescribed it by her doctor and is not diabetic, nor was she obese. She was going to the gym to lose weight and, because β€” I'm paraphrasing the best I can from memory β€” she did not want her attractiveness to be defined by her legs or butt, she decided to go on the drug after her weight loss began plateauing.

She was upfront with me about going on the drug and her reasons for it, and I was supportive.

Now, two years later, with the drug in full effect, she is not satisfied. She is upset that her butt is now flat. She's frustrated that her skin is wrinkly. Her doctor has told her that she has lost muscle mass. She looks gaunt, and it has affected our sex life. She never goes to the gym.

But she has a 'healthy BMI' now, which makes it all worth it to her. She is also deeper in debt, as she has been paying out of pocket for the drug and has gone from being able to put a bit of money in savings each month to playing whack-a-mole with bills. She makes six figures.

It all seems like a net negative after two years, but she's intent on staying on the drug and has begun a maintenance dose.

We don't live together or share finances, and she's not a bad person, but I am so uncomfortable, and I want to leave. I'm trying not to."

"Rapid weight loss can trigger disordered eating and unhealthy habits, which is what I think your wife has. I lost 100 pounds in eight months after the birth of my first son by doing keto and running 5 kilometers a day. I'm short, 4'11. When I gave birth, I weighed 209 pounds. By my son's first birthday, I was 98 pounds. No one could tell me anything. I thought I looked amazing. He's 7 now, and I look back at the pictures and cringe. I was skin and bones. I looked sick.

I used to love taking baths, but I couldn't anymore because my tailbone would push into the bottom of the tub. Boobs? Gone. Butt? We don't know her. My husband has since told me it was gross to him when we had sex because he could feel all my ribs, my hip bones, and my tailbone in certain positions.

The weight loss became an addiction. I was weighing myself 10 times a day. I would eat something, then hop on the treadmill and run until I burned off the same number of calories I had eaten. The wake-up call was when my son was 18 months. I was home alone with him, put him to bed, and passed out cold in the hallway for an unknown amount of time. I had to go to an eating disorder clinic. I didn't think I had an eating disorder because I was eating very healthy and working out."

"Physician here. Yes, GLP-1 medications are life-saving and life-changing meds, absolutely. The issue is that OP's partner was not obese nor did she have CKD, CAD or HF. She should not have been approved to take GLP-1s. I'm not even clear what OP's partner was actually wanting to do regarding her body."

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