I’m 8 weeks in on tirzepatide and I’ve noticed some weird GI stuff. Anyone else get that?
I’ve had bloods done and my GP says it’s probably just the med, but I’m not so sure. Has anyone found anything that helps with the stomach issues?
that “is it just the med” uncertainty is a hard place to be. I remember it well. The GI side effects are definitely real, and for what it’s worth, they’re the entire reason I had to switch off metformin myself.
The disruption just never settled. When I started tirzepatide, I was braced for more of the same, so I started logging everything in my spreadsheet: not just what I ate, but timing relative to my injection. The clearest pattern for me was that the first 48 hours post-injection were the most sensitive.
A high-fat meal or just a very large meal in that window was a guaranteed problem. What eventually helped was splitting