Eggy Burps
A side effect I wasn't expecting: sulphurous, uncontrollable burps that arrive with zero warning - unlike every other burp I've ever had, which I can at least manage.
Another one of the side effects that came along with Mounjaro: eggy burps.
Very sulphurous. Nasty, distinctive gas that, for me, arrives completely unexpectedly.
I’m sure there’s an actual explanation for the specific “flavour.” Something to do with sulphates in whatever I’ve eaten, probably. I haven’t looked into it properly. I just know it when it happens.
Some days are worse than others. It tends to turn up alongside the alternate-day stomach upset I seem to get — not every day, but often enough that I’ve started noticing the pattern.
What makes it a genuinely odd symptom, though, isn’t the smell. It’s the control. Or the complete lack of it.
Any normal burp — a gassy drink, whatever — I can manage. Slow the release, keep the noise down, choose the moment. Ordinary. Controllable.
The eggy ones don’t ask.
They just arrive. Get up from bed, shift in a chair, and one’s already out before I’ve had any say in the matter. No warning. No delay. Uncontrolled, instant release, whether I like it or not.
A very strange symptom.
Thankfully, it settles down. Past about 10am, my stomach calms itself, and the devil’s breath stops for the day.