Posted on 05/29/2024 12:46:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
I’ve been warning folks that these new weight loss drugs are bad for them.
Good luck with that, your mileage may vary.
Anything that can squeeze Kelly Clarkson on a wide screen TV can’t be all bad
Yes, she’s lost a lot of weight!....................
There are entire websites devoted to celebrities’ “Ozempic face.”
Probably why Gayle King appears sick all the time
My neighbor lost 135 pounds, half her body weight, and looks terrific. I didn’t ask whether she used drugs and I don’t care. She’s probably about 45, has a good job.
“Oprah was taking so much Ozempic that even Gayle lost 12 pounds!”
Katt Williams
The downside is that much of the weight loss is muscle mass. Much of the rebound weight gain returns as fat.
If a doctor has prescribed this stuff without covering the basics, such as the need to maintain and increase muscle mass..they are incompetent. If you go on something like this stuff and don’t do your own research, you are endangering your self.
Too many folks are surprised, and then they rush to lawyers to sue. And we wonder why the cost to bring drugs to market is so high.
I forgot to mention gastric distress and heartburn where there has never been heartburn before.
I’ve seen few pictures. Ghastly looking.
Among others
Everything’s got a catch. I just lost 12 LBS but the catch was pneumonia.
Mounjaro is more effective at weight loss but I suppose has the same problems.
If the Ozempic drops you blood sugar so much as to cause hypoglycemia for a day or two in diabetic persons what must it do for non-diabetics? Woof.
These are the new Carl Sagan drugs since they make Billions and Billions of dollars in profit. They are the statains or the NASIDs of the day.
Back in the days of my youth it was tonsillectomies, they were common, you hardly ever hear of one now. Appendectomies were also quite common. The favorite dental procedure seemed to be the volar flap removal, it just made your teeth get crooked since the flap was meant to provide space for your teeth to grow as you got older. After that, when we got older, most of our wives that could afford it or via insurance got hysterectomies or were medicated with a bunch of estrogen. For a time it was $85,000 back surgeries that were at best 35% effective. And then there is that precautionary colonoscopy. Who can argue with everyone being anesthetized and corn holed for the sake of health safety? After all, what is a little propofol between friends anyway? What other flavor of the day money grubbing medical procedures or drugs can anyone think of?
Today is is type II diabetes or pre-diabetes with people that have an A1C of 6.5 often being read out death sentences and put on hard core regimens including diet and lifestyle coaches.
Please forgive my cynicism. Old age and experience have made me that way.
I got the replay anyway. After lots of blood work and imaging, I have a diagnosis from a biopsy of adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater in the presence of high grade dysplasia. The prescribed fix is a Whipple procedure. Lots of Youtube videos describing it. My surgeon calls it a "kitchen remodel". I appreciate her attempt at humor. She is an exceptionally experienced surgeon in performing Whipple procedures.
SOMEONE CAREFULLY SHOW ME THE “MUSCLE MASS” ON LIZZO.
I missed it.
I've been on it before. The amazing thing about it is that it reduces the "noise" in your head about eating, wanting to eat, when is lunch, I love food, etc.
The magic is what it does to your *desire* to eat ... even if you're hungry. You simply don't want to eat.
The symptoms that I had were very mild. Brief stomach cramping that passed, some mild constipation. As you said, your mileage may vary.
Other than the side effects we don't know about yet, the problem with this drug is that it kills your appetite to the point that you lose weight too quickly ... meaning, your skin doesn't have that slow leisurely time to retract. So unless you are making yourself eat you will have saggy skin and that DOES NOT go away.
Feed cold, starve a fever.......
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