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Nausea and eating

Three days after the injection are always the worst

Started 29 July 2025 · 13 replies · 125 hearts · read 2.4k times

NoleneDurban, ZA · 29 July 2025
12 months ago

Three days after the injection are always the worst — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

This started at the same time as two other things, which is why I cannot attribute it to anything with any confidence.

I have written down when it happens and how long it lasts, because I could not answer either of those questions when my GP asked and I felt foolish.

Nobody warned me about this specifically and I am starting to think that is because it is common enough that everybody assumed I knew.

To be precise about it, since I have put it in the title: three days. I counted rather than guessed, because a guess would have been kinder to me.

Thank you for reading something this unglamorous. Any experience welcome, and timescales especially.

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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#1

Mine lasted about five weeks and then more or less stopped. I still get a mild version for a day after a step up and I now expect it.

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IlseMaastricht, NL
#2

What Moss described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What helped enormously was somebody else doing the deciding. When my partner just put something in front of me I could usually eat it; when I had to choose, I could not.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

Adding a note that the practical guides cover the ordinary version of this well, and what this thread is doing that they cannot is telling somebody they are not alone in it.

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WilfStoke, UK
#4

The thing I would flag is that not being able to keep fluids down is a different category from not fancying food. If you are in the first one, please ring somebody today.

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CasperOdense, DK
#5

What Ilse described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The texture thing surprised me. Anything with more than one texture in it was difficult and simple, uniform food was fine.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#6

Holding this with you rather than answering it.

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PerlaManila, PH
#7

Room temperature turned out to matter more than anything else on the plate. Straight from the fridge and straight from the oven were both impossible for a month.

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VivLuton, UK
#8

I found that eating something small before I felt hungry was the whole trick. Waiting until I wanted food meant it never arrived.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#9

Reading Viv, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Ginger did nothing for me and mint did a surprising amount, and I have watched other people here report exactly the opposite. It seems genuinely individual.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#10

What got me through was very small amounts, very often, and not caring at all what they were. Nutrition can wait a fortnight; not eating anything cannot.

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#11

Please do not push through a whole day of nothing on principle. I did that twice and both times it made the following day considerably worse.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#12

I am going to gently push back on the drift towards reassurance. The person who asked described something specific and deserves an accurate answer rather than a comfortable one.

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GwynethAberdare, UK
#13

Coming back to what Bryn wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

I lived on the same four things for about six weeks and felt guilty about it, and my dietitian said, in effect, good, keep going, we will widen it later.

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