05/14/2026
****If you know my dad PLEASE don’t tell him the specifics of my story!
My story comes with a TW of self self harm so please don’t read if it will bother you. My sleep apnea doctor requested me to get on Ozempic in hoping it would help me loose weight and get rid of my sleep apnea. I blindly went along and in February I was placed on it.
A little over three weeks ago I began to idealize self harm, a thought I haven’t had in 20 years. I spoke up and even went to a mobile crisis center to talk over help with the issue and reestablish going to a therapist. I talked to the doctor and he wanted to decrease my dose only by half. I began visualizing self harming myself and talked with my therapist and she told me I needed to demand to get off the medicine and I did. I talked to people to get me off th ledge and thought hey I’m doing good until Friday when I couldn’t hold back anymore and cut myself.
The thing a lot of people won’t understand is it’s not with the goal of su***de but more of a release. I reached out to a very caring coworker to get help and did that day. I’ve been slowly taking care of me since then and staying home to work on resetting my brain so to speak as I wait for the medicine to work its way out of my system. I’ve even sought out help to increase two of my other medications to help me even more while this is working its way out of my system.
My hope is that someone who might be taking this medication and they begin to have negative mental health PLEASE advocate and get yourself off of it. The mental health issues are not readily talked about or warned about when you are placed on this medicine. If you see me at work or out in the community please feel free to check in and ask me how I’m doing. I may cry but don’t be alarmed if I do it’s just me being emotional because I’m fighting to get back to the me that is currently missing. Give me hugs if I want one and send up prayers even. I will get back to the old me it’s just taking some time to get back to that version of me.
