The first time Caroline joined Wegovy, it wasn’t a secret: she told her boyfriend, her mother, and her closest friends. Over the course of six months, they watched her lose 30 pounds, going from 130 pounds to what she calls her “original healthy weight” of 100 pounds. And even still, her loved ones are worried about The extent of her weight loss I didn’t want her to lose any more.
“I tried every method under the sun to lose weight,” Caroline tells SELF. The 34-year-old, who lives in Montreal, asked that only her first name be used to protect her privacy. “I’m really tired of trying.” At five feet four inches tall, she wasn’t obese and didn’t think her primary doctor would approve a prescription.
So, she went online and found a doctor who prescribed the medication over the phone, without knowing Carolyn’s actual weight. Right after starting Wegovy, she said: “Weight It started going out incredibly quickly.After six months, she decided she wanted to stop. But once she got off Wegovy, the weight came back: She gained 10 pounds in one month. “I realized I couldn’t stop,” Carolyn says.
So it has been like that for the past six months He took Wijovi Again, this time at a maintenance level dose. But there’s one big difference: this time, she’s keeping it secret from her boyfriend and family. “Now that we’re talking about children, he’s seen all the effects (of the drugs) and is done with it,” she says. Since she lives alone, hiding her medication from him is relatively easy — she hides it in the back of the refrigerator, because it needs to be kept cold. But she still worries about seeing him, and when they travel together, she has to hide the medicine in the hotel room’s refrigerator — or in the freezer if they’re visiting his parents. “So imagine me hiding things in my in-laws’ refrigerator, hoping they won’t see them,” she says. “It’s very embarrassing.”
Sometimes avoidance is the easier option.
Caroline isn’t the only woman who goes to great lengths to keep her GLP-1 use a secret. On a The last topic On the r/GLP1microdosing subreddit, women shared their tips and tricks for hiding medications from their partners. One hides them in a can of tomato paste. Another uses a play food container from the kids’ imaginative kitchen. Still others resort to an opaque container of feta cheese, a box of butter sticks, a box of anchovy paste, empty bottles of women’s probiotics and Alani Nu supplements, a plastic container, a mineral water bottle, a carton of wine, and a box of baking soda in the back of the refrigerator — all to hide their weight loss medication.
