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Jenny Mollen opened up about how microdosing GLP1 medication ended up sending her to the emergency room.
“I just posted a follow-up to my piece about Tirzepatide and microdosing,” Mollen, 46, said in an Instagram Story on Thursday, June 26. “I had a lot of unanswered questions about it [that] just ironically got answered for me in the form of a trip to the ER two nights ago … I’m in such a f***ing haze. It’s been a crazy 48 hours.”
Tirzepatide is a GLP1 which can regulate a person’s blood sugar, appetite and digestion. The medication is typically used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity. In recent years, many people have also used GLP1s like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss.
Mollen, who is the wife of Jason Biggs, also shared via her Instagram Story that after taking the GLP1, she ended up in the hospital and lost one-fourth of her blood. She included multiple clips of her in an ambulance.
In an essay published via Substack on Thursday, Mollen expressed her “growing concerns” about how the medication was affecting her “mentally.”
“I do think that in the coming years, we will hear more about how GLP1s cause depression, ruin marriages and rob us of our capacity for feeling joy,” she wrote. “These drugs bind to our neurotransmitters, affecting levels of dopamine and serotonin. They change our relationship with food. And I believe they also change our relationship with people and ourselves.”
When trying out the prescription, Mollen “fully understood” why others have a desire to use it. However, she is worried about how it can affect a person’s mental health and recounted her first-hand experience.
“When I started Tirzepatide, the first thing I noticed was that I was crying more frequently. I couldn’t control the tears that would pour out of me when talking about subjects ranging from kids to open-faced tuna melts,” she penned. “I also noticed this underlying anxiety that would, without warning, after no more than one cup of espresso, take over my body and have me pacing in the kitchen like I’d just snorted an eightball of cocaine.”
Mollen added she noticed that she was “more easily offended and quicker to react” while taking the GLP1.
“I also began to sense that the joy and gratitude I once experienced, those moments of peak happiness, weren’t quite as intense as they used to be,” she wrote. “I could feel the joy simmering beneath the surface, but it never reached the pinnacle it once had internally. Even on a rollercoaster, my sense of euphoria was dampened. I couldn’t feel the highs and lows. Satisfaction, personally and professionally, was just out of reach.”
