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Please help me make this make sense!!! I started on tirz at 2.5 on December 9. Minimal side effects, slight nausea here and there.. but other than that, hardly anything. I increased to 5mg 5 weeks later, again. Some nausea but all very tolerable. Fast forward to February 9, and I came down with what I thought was the stomach bug. Most debilitating nausea I’ve ever had. Vomiting, diarrhea, all of it. Fast forward 2 weeks, happens again. Both starting around 4 am. 8 weeks go by, nothing. Started titrating up to 7.5 (slowly) and April 10, happens again. “Stomach bug”. Woke up at 4am with INSANE nausea and vomiting. Lasts about 6 hours and goes away. May April 24 AGAIN. so I call my provider and she tells me to go to ER to have some scans done. I have ultrasounds of my pancreas, gallbladder, liver, and kidneys. They say everything looks great. They do a ton of bloodwork, everything looks perfect. So I skip my injection that week because my body needs a break. Fast forward again to May 4, I go back down to 2.5. Sure enough, Thursday morning around 4 am I wake up.. nausea/vomiting. At 2.5!! I tell my provider and she says let’s try one more time, this time take Zofran 48 hours in advance as a preventative and not a rescue. So I do. 2.5 again this past Monday, and last night (Wednesday night, a little earlier this time) the nausea begins. I can’t sleep, the nausea is so bad the second I close my eyes I feel like I’m going to puke. All of the sudden 1:45am, it stops. Nausea goes away and I fall asleep. What the heck?! Can anyone help?! Why is this happening! My provider said she has never heard of this before. Symptoms starting basically three days after my injection. Even having this intense of symptoms at 2.5 she has never heard of. I am surrounded by dozens of people taking this medication and these people don’t even get slightly nauseous yet here I am can’t even pick my head up because the nausea is so out of control. I am missing out on so many things because the level of nausea is not even something I can push through, when I tell you, I can’t even sit down or think of anything else because it is AWFUL. I didn’t wanna have to stop this medication. I really wanted there to be a workaround, but I can’t live like this. Has anyone ever heard of this before?
Intent Score
20
Intent
90
Confidence
Summary
The author is sharing their experience with side effects from tirzepatide but is not actively seeking help to start, access, or afford the medication.
Reasoning
This post falls into TIER 4 as the author is already on the medication and discussing their side effects without any intent to seek access or affordability solutions. There are no signals indicating they are looking for a provider, prescription, or financial assistance.
Model: gpt-4o-mini · Prompt: v2 · 5/14/2026, 8:02:23 AM