Ozempic is a wonder drug for weight loss - but this one surprising side effect could ruin your relationship and will make you question if you REALLY want to take it...

I was wiping the room surfaces and humming to myself erstwhile I felt a brace of hands connected my waist. Normally, I'd person turned to look my hubby with a smile, pressing myself against him successful a committedness of what mightiness travel later. But now, puzzlingly, each I felt was irritation.

The hands moved higher. I felt rage - irrational and heavy successful my stomach.

'Don't interaction me,' I said. His look was shocked and hurt. I felt terrible, but astatine the aforesaid clip detached.

My husband, Jim, and I person ever had a passionate, playful and inventive enactment life. From breathtaking roleplay to handcuffs and making emotion astatine immoderate clip of day, enactment has ever been an intrinsic portion of our 20-year relationship.

However, 8 weeks ago, I started to usage Ozempic injections. All the tendency I usually consciousness for Jim has vanished on with the other kilos.

I'm feeling amended astir my assemblage than I person successful years, but I person nary privation whatsoever to person sex. The lone emotion I consciousness erstwhile helium comes adjacent maine is choler and a faint consciousness of repulsion.

Understandably, Jim is precise keen that I travel disconnected the injections.

I'm a caregiver astatine a engaged session and I'm ever successful a rush. When you enactment 11-hour days, you thin to devour erstwhile you can.

Patients bring successful cakes and biscuits the full time, and it's intolerable to resist. I ne'er consciousness afloat and I'm an affectional eater. Whether I'm happy, sad, grieving oregon overwhelmed, my go-to is cocoa biscuits, chips oregon a vessel of wine.

I knew that I needed to marque semipermanent changes, but I recovered it intolerable to get started. I'd effort to enactment distant from nutrient during the time and, if I managed it, I'd past binge successful the evenings.

My value summation truly started during Covid and by January this twelvemonth I'd enactment connected much than 12 kilos. All my apparel were choky and I was uncomfortable with however I looked.

I'm successful my forties and I knew that a batch of the value summation carried wellness risks for the future. We had a vacation planned for August and I did not privation to consciousness similar the mum radical susurration astir due to the fact that I'd fto myself go.

As I person a 15-year-old daughter, I'm highly cautious astir dieting oregon restricting food, truthful I would ne'er skip meals. We don't person scales successful the location - I measurement myself astatine work, and that's wherefore Ozempic seemed similar a bully solution: I could proceed to devour with the family, but conscionable person smaller portions.

Before utilizing Ozempic I did plentifulness of research. I knew the astir communal broadside effects - mostly headaches and nausea. And I discussed it with Jim who said if I felt I needed to bash it, past helium was close down me. I'd accidental he's regretting that determination now.

I recovered an online pharmacy that sold it for $330, which would past 4 weeks. I had to bash a lengthy questionnaire. Then they requested a representation of me, which I sent, and past the medicine had to beryllium okayed by a GP, which was done the precise adjacent day.

Within 24 hours of my archetypal injection I mislaid my appetite. It was extraordinary. It was lunchtime astatine work, and usually I'd beryllium trying to transportation myself to person a crockery alternatively than a high-calorie sandwich, but I realised I didn't person immoderate tendency to eat. 

Normally medications instrumentality a spot of clip to footwear in, but this was little than a day. It was an breathtaking feeling.

That day I marvelled astatine however antithetic I felt. By that constituent I'd beryllium heading consecutive for the biscuit jar, but I had nary tendency to bash so. I was thrilled. Clearly, the value was going to melt away, and I'd consciousness large astir myself successful nary time.

Over that week I felt much and much satisfied with my decision. I'd wondered whether I mightiness consciousness little energetic due to the fact that I'd beryllium eating less, but I upped my h2o intake substantially and woke each greeting feeling refreshed acceptable for the day. It was fabulous.

I didn't spot Jim overmuch that week. He's a method technologist and we were connected other shifts. But past we some had the play disconnected and we thought we'd spell and bash thing nice. For america that would ever culminate successful sex. That's erstwhile helium went successful for the cuddle successful the room and I realised I conscionable couldn't carnivore him touching me. I wasn't remotely interested.

It didn't get amended implicit the consequent weeks. I don't privation to contradict him enactment - wherefore should helium person to endure too? But I've been precise honorable with him and said that I'm not getting thing from it. God assistance me, but erstwhile helium started kissing maine I've adjacent utilized the words, 'Just get connected with it'.

I respond physically - I buss him backmost and I interaction him - but I consciousness nothing. He has tried everything. And I mean everything. He has enactment successful truthful overmuch effort with massages and trying antithetic ways to excite me. But I'm conscionable not interested. I cannot get aroused successful immoderate way. Normally, I orgasm easily, but present there's thing there.

Not lone has each the pleasance gone from nutrient - I person to unit myself to devour - but I don't consciousness similar drinking intoxicant either. I've stopped making plans to spell retired with friends - oregon for meal with my husband. And what's the constituent of maine and Jim going retired unneurotic oregon going distant if I don't privation to person sex?

I consciousness arsenic though I've mislaid the pleasures that marque beingness truthful rich. There's thing similar a delicious, crisp solid of achromatic wine, a creamy curry oregon the sheer sweaty pleasance of astonishing sex. but I don't bask immoderate of those immoderate more? I'm thinner, but I'm miserable.

Since this happened I've googled 'Ozempic and mislaid libido', and I tin spot others person reported it arsenic a broadside effect.

Now Jim is asking however agelong I'm readying connected staying connected the Ozempic. I've said, for now, I'm going to support going. I've mislaid fractional a kilo successful a substance of days and I've got capable proviso for 4 much weeks. But I tin spot that much than a period similar this mightiness commencement to harm our marriage. And it's excessively precious to hazard that.

So successful April I'll halt with the play injections and anticipation that everything goes backmost to normal. I'm dying to enactment connected immoderate beauteous underwear, consciousness sexy again with my slimmer figure, and seduce my hubby arsenic helium deserves!

As told to Alice Smellie. Name has been changed

• Disclaimer: Ozempic is lone approved for the attraction of diabetes successful Australia. While immoderate doctors whitethorn prescribe it for weight loss aft a thorough appraisal of their patient's needs, Daily Mail Australia is not endorsing its usage for this purpose. You should ever question proposal from a aesculapian professional.