I theorize that having food spend a longer time in my stomach disrupted my gut biome over the long term, which may tend to explain the correlation between my taking a probiotic and the hiccups quickly abating (since I still was only a few days out from my last shot).
And since I have managed to lose more weight since coming off Ozempic than when I was on it, I don't see much of a reason to go back on it. I was 249 when I started Ozempic. I quickly got down to 229 on it. There, I stagnated, mostly because I used it as a crutch to continue bad eating habits. That's on me. I made a lifestyle change (during the week) when I came off of it because I was very concerned about putting that weight back on. This morning, I was 197. I'm kind of stagnating again, and likely will put on weight over the weekend. But 197 is a new low point since this all began for me.
These drugs are a miracle. They really are. But I don't ever want to have another week like I had with those hiccups.