Data report
Semaglutide side effects: what users report in 37 anonymous confessions
Counts from published confessions tagged Semaglutide. What users report about semaglutide side effects is read off the published text. The archive has no side-effect column, so each figure is a phrase match. This is not a clinical rate, and it is not medical advice.
Headline stats
What users report in 37 published anonymous confessions tagged semaglutide: 2 (5.4%) mention burping, nausea, and vomiting (tied). 1 name a semaglutide milligram figure, and 5 state a pound loss with lost, down, or dropped. Data through 14 October 2026. Figures on this page are phrase matches over anonymous published stories, not clinical incidence. This is not a dosing recommendation.
- Published confessions
- 37
- Most mentioned side-effect phrase
- Burping, Nausea, and Vomiting · 2 each (5.4%)
- Confessions with any side-effect phrase
- 5
- Confessions naming a figure
- 1
- Most named figure
- None listed
- Confessions naming a week
- 3
- Confessions naming a month
- 4
- Confessions stating a pound loss
- 5 · median 50 lb
37 published confessions, 19 May 2026 through 14 October 2026 (UTC). 5 mention at least one side-effect phrase in the lexicon below.
Side effects mentioned
Share of published semaglutide confessions whose text matches the phrase. One confession can match more than one row. A denial next to the phrase is not counted. What users report is a phrase, not a diagnosis.
| Phrase | Confessions | % | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burping | 2 | 5.4% | |
| Nausea | 2 | 5.4% | |
| Vomiting | 2 | 5.4% | |
| Anxiety or panic | 1 | 2.7% | |
| Constipation | 1 | 2.7% | |
| Hair shedding | 1 | 2.7% | |
| Cramps | 0 | 0% | |
| Diarrhea | 0 | 0% | |
| Dizziness | 0 | 0% | |
| Fatigue or exhaustion | 0 | 0% | |
| Headache | 0 | 0% | |
| Heart rate or palpitations | 0 | 0% | |
| Injection-site reaction | 0 | 0% | |
| Insomnia or poor sleep | 0 | 0% | |
| Libido | 0 | 0% | |
| Low mood or anhedonia | 0 | 0% | |
| Muscle loss | 0 | 0% | |
| Reflux or heartburn | 0 | 0% | |
| Sensitive skin | 0 | 0% |
Also written, not scored as a side effect
Appetite and hunger are the change these confessions usually set out to describe. “No side effects” is a phrase about the absence of effects.
| Phrase | Confessions | % | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appetite, hunger, or food noise | 4 | 10.8% | |
| "No", "zero", or "minimal" side effects | 0 | 0% |
Reported doses
A milligram figure counts when it is written next to semaglutide, sema, Ozempic, Wegovy, or Rybelsus. Figures next to another compound, a price, or a vial size are left out, as are amounts above 5 mg. Each distinct figure counts once per confession. Figures that appear in only one confession are omitted from the table.
This is not a dosing recommendation.
1 of 37 confessions (2.7%) name at least one such figure. 1 other figures appear in a single confession and are not listed.
No figure met the bar above.
Timelines
Week numbers and month numbers are counted separately. A month is not turned into four weeks. A confession that names two different weeks can appear in two week rows.
Weeks (3 confessions name a week)
| Range | Confessions | % | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–4 weeks | 3 | 8.1% | |
| 5–8 weeks | 0 | 0% | |
| 9–12 weeks | 0 | 0% | |
| 13–26 weeks | 0 | 0% | |
| 27 weeks or more | 0 | 0% |
Months (4 confessions name a month)
| Range | Confessions | % | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 months | 0 | 0% | |
| 3–5 months | 1 | 2.7% | |
| 6–11 months | 2 | 5.4% | |
| 12 months or more | 1 | 2.7% |
Outcomes written in the text
A weight figure counts only when it follows lost, down, or dropped. Kilograms stay in kilograms. A figure next to tirzepatide, retatrutide, Mounjaro, or Zepbound is left out. Start weight and end weight with no unit are left out. What users report is not a result to expect.
Pound losses: 5 confessions. Median 50 lb, range 40–80 lb. Kilogram losses: 0 confessions. No kilogram figure matched.
| Range | Confessions | % | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 lb | 0 | 0% | |
| 10–19 lb | 0 | 0% | |
| 20–39 lb | 0 | 0% | |
| 40–59 lb | 4 | 10.8% | |
| 60 lb or more | 1 | 2.7% |
| Phrase | Confessions | % | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Says they stopped, quit, or came off semaglutide | 1 | 2.7% |
Related confessions
The newest published confession for each of the most mentioned side effects. The full archive is on the semaglutide page.
Burping
nausea. vomiting. constipation. burping I won't get into. 65% of people on sema get some kind of gut disaster and I got the full menu. lost the weight though. spent month one on…#298 · 5 July 2026
Nausea
things i learned the hard way on retatrutide: the nausea peaks at week 3 not week 1 alcohol becomes literally toxic, one beer = food poisoning sulfur burps mean you're titrating…#055 · 24 May 2026
Vomiting
Sema: Lost 80 pounds year 1 and everyone said I was glowing. Year two Im in hospital every few weeks for vomiting they say it will "settle." Gastroparesis. I stopped the drug mo…#603 · 9 September 2026
Anxiety or panic
Here’s how trying to finish my weight loss went: Ozempic: lost 50 pounds. Tirzepatide: lost another 67. Fourteen pounds left to goal. Switched to retatrutide. Three months later…#668 · 20 September 2026
Hair shedding
Semaglutide gave me the worst hair loss of my life :( Lost a third of my hair density in 5 months. Dr said it was the rapid weight loss, not the drug but switched to tirzepatide…#043 · 21 May 2026
How to cite
The sentence in the summary is the citable line. The block below is HTML; it uses the same numbers as this page.
<blockquote cite="https://www.peptideconfessions.com/reports/semaglutide-side-effects"> <p>What users report in 37 published anonymous confessions tagged semaglutide: 2 (5.4%) mention burping, nausea, and vomiting (tied). 1 name a semaglutide milligram figure, and 5 state a pound loss with lost, down, or dropped. Data through 14 October 2026. Figures on this page are phrase matches over anonymous published stories, not clinical incidence. This is not a dosing recommendation.</p> <footer>Source: <a href="https://www.peptideconfessions.com/reports/semaglutide-side-effects">Peptide Confessions, semaglutide side-effect report</a>. Anonymous published confessions through 14 October 2026. Not medical advice. This is not a dosing recommendation.</footer> </blockquote>
Questions
- What semaglutide side effects do users report?
- A confession counts when its text matches the shared phrase list (for example nausea, constipation, heart rate, palpitations). A denial in the preceding words ("no nausea") does not count. The side-effect phrases users report most often are burping, nausea, and vomiting (tied): 2 of 37 confessions (5.4%). Silence is not recorded: people who never name an effect are in the denominator only.
- How many confessions are in this semaglutide count?
- 37 published confessions are tagged semaglutide. The site has no accounts, so this is a count of submissions, not a verified count of distinct people. Published dates run from 19 May 2026 through 14 October 2026.
- Are these semaglutide doses a recommendation?
- This is not a dosing recommendation. 1 of 37 confessions write a figure next to semaglutide, sema, Ozempic, Wegovy, or Rybelsus. Figures are kept when they sit near that name, and dropped when they sit near another compound, a price, or a vial size. One distinct figure counts once per confession. No figure was frequent enough to list.
- Do these percentages show what semaglutide causes?
- A percentage is the share of published confessions that used a phrase. Figures on this page are phrase matches over anonymous published stories, not clinical incidence.
- Why are weeks and months separate?
- 3 confessions write an explicit week number, and 4 write an explicit month number. Months are not converted into weeks. A confession can land in more than one bucket when it names more than one number.
- How is weight loss counted?
- 5 confessions contain a pound figure written with lost, down, or dropped. 0 do the same in kilograms. Kilograms are not converted to pounds. A figure whose nearby subject is tirzepatide, retatrutide, or a brand name for those is left out. Start-and-end weights with no unit word are left out. The median is the middle value of the figures that remain. What users report here is not a result to expect.
Methodology
Cohort: confessions with status published and a Semaglutide tag. Data through 14 October 2026. The page is cached and regenerated about once an hour from that query.
There is no structured field for side effect, use, dose, week, or outcome. Matches are case-insensitive phrases. A phrase that nobody used stays in the table at zero. “Tired”, “sleep”, “heart”, and “skin” alone are not scored; those words show up in stories that are not about a side effect.
Figures on this page are phrase matches over anonymous published stories, not clinical incidence.
This is not a dosing recommendation. Doses are not a protocol. Weight figures, where this page shows them, are not a result you should expect. Nothing on this page is a finding from a trial.
Editorial rules for what gets published are on the methodology page. Vendor names are not repeated here.