Feeling Exhausted on Cagrilintide? Here's Why 😴
If you're researching cagrilintide and you're absolutely wiped out, you're not alone. This is the #1 side effect I'm seeing reported, and it needs more attention. What People Are Experiencing The pattern is incredibly consistent: - Crushing, overwhelming fatigue - Caffeine doesn't touch it - Energy peptides don't help - Amino acids don't make a dent - More sleep doesn't fix it Nothing does the trick. And here's why. The Mechanism: Why Cagri Drains Your Energy Cagrilintide is an amylin analog, and its primary mechanism is dramatically slowing gastric emptying. That means food sits in your stomach significantly longer than normal. This creates powerful mechanical fullness and appetite suppression, which is why people research it. But here's what's happening under the hood: Your digestive system is working in slow motion while your body tries to process food at normal speed. Think about it this way: Your body is expending massive amounts of energy trying to push food through a system that's been intentionally slowed to a crawl. It's like trying to drive through deep mud - your engine (metabolism) is revving hard but making minimal progress. Eventually, you're just exhausted. The Energy Drain Explained 1. Prolonged digestive effort - Your GI tract is contracting and working for hours longer than normal to move food 2. Metabolic confusion - Your body senses food but can't access nutrients at its normal rate 3. Systemic slowdown - The gastric effects create a cascading energy drain throughout your system 4. No workaround - Because this is the core mechanism of action, there's no easy fix The Anecdotal Pattern I'm Seeing This is the #1 thing people report when adding cagrilintide to their research protocols: "I added cagrilintide and now I can barely function. I'm exhausted all day. I've tried everything and nothing helps." It's not a small subset - it's a dominant pattern in the feedback I'm getting. And here's the thing: if you're experiencing this, you're not alone, and now you know why.