Posted on 06/16/2024 4:31:12 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Tis the season for emergency room visits after inappropriately using Ozempic to lose weight for the summer.
“Drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy should only be used by people prescribed them for obesity or diabetes,” Stephen Powis — the national medical director of NHS England, the country’s publicly funded healthcare system — urged last week at a conference in Manchester.
“I’m worried about reports that people are misusing them — they are not intended as a quick fix for people trying to get ‘beach body ready,'” added Powis, per The Times of London.
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I know that for many people carbs are the biggest factor in weight. It’s weird that with a lower carb diet, you still struggle. I’m sorry to hear that.
From what I’ve read about ozempic, the side effects are not worth it. And that seems to be true for most meds developed in these last several years.
I haven’t found a solution. TBH, I have considered ozempic. I was not persuaded that it would be a help. From what I read, it causes you not to want to eat and therefore you don’t. I want to eat, but I don’t anyway. So, keeping me away from food would not help.
I will continue as I have been. But, simply cutting out carbs and keeping down calories isn’t always the answer for everyone.
Oprah took so much Ozempic even Gail lost 12 pounds!
Katt Williams
Have you tried “caveman diet?” Or strictly clean protein and fat only? For a month or two it may be worth the try. I know not eating fruit/veggies (as well as other carbs) is weird...but, it has silved a health problem I have had.
solved
Ozempic works by making you constantly nauseous.
Yes. I don’t seem to lose weight on it, but I also don’t gain weight.
i guess i don’t understand what difference it makes whether one is using this drug for a short period of time vs a long period of time in terms of potentially negative side-effects ... one would think that the negative-side effects would be even greater for those using the drug a long time to lose a substantial amount of weight than those using it for a short time ...
so if this doc is concerned about the number of young healthy folks landing in the ER with pancreatitis and other terrible health effects after short term usage, then it seems to me that should be a signal to doctors in general and the long term users that these are potentially very dangerous drugs and what they might be in for as well ...
ozempic and similar drugs work mostly by slowing the emptying of the stomach so one stays fuller longer, thus reducing appetite ...
one of the worse side-effects is causing a condition called gastroparesis, means paralysis of the stomach, which is a VERY nasty condition ... some users end up with this condition permanently, even after discontinuing the drug ... and there’s also a possibility of pancreatitis, which can be life-threatening ...
My "go to" diet has been a hybrid of the Zone 30-30-40 and a 5-2 intermittent fasting. Mon/Thu I eat 600 calories with 30% protein/30% fat/40% carbs. The other days are 1250 calories. The Pure Protein shakes at Costco provide 30 grams of protein in 160 total calories. That is my normal breakfast. I maintain my honesty about my weight and intake using MyFitnessPal. A Charge5 FitBit tracks sleep and exercise and can "credit" calories to your daily tally if you exercise enough to earn more.
Next Tuesday I'm having a Whipple procedure. I have already lost my gallbladder. The Whipple will take the duodenum just beyond the pyloric valve to just beyond the sphincter of Oddi. The "head" of the pancreas will get sliced off. What remains will be stitched together to make a "hopefully" working digestive tract free of cancer. It will take time to "reboot" my stomach and new digestive tract. In the interim, I plan to employ a "complete amino" powder will all essential amino acids that can be stirred into a drink. It will be a while before solid food will work again.
threearrowsnutra.com has the heme supplement.
Mine is an autoimmune hemolytic anemia. I have plenty of iron. I just have a condition which causes some antibodies to attack to attack my red blood cells and destroy them. I’m hemolyzing all the time. At present, there is no cure, only treatment.
But, dadgum it makes it hard to not gain weight! I get up in the morning, wash the face, brush the teeth, get dressed, and think, “Now, that has worn me out!”
So, while in most cases I would agree that a person needs to cut out the carbs and increase exercise to lose weight, it isn’t always possible to do so. I have looked at ozempic and decided it doesn’t address my problem. Therefore, I will not take it. But, I need help to get this weight off.
and botox...which is a legitimate drug option for severe muscular/neurological issues and now its used primarily for cosmetics...
we are such a drug addicted society....no wonder people are crazy..
I was tested mitochondrial antibodies that lead to hemolytic anemia. Fortunately negative. My capacity to bind iron is fine, but I was still not successfully capturing enough. My RBCs have a wide range from microcytes to anisocytes. Many of the RBCs just never mature into something useful. In spite of my best efforts, I still don't have a resolution. Perhaps getting the cancer removed will bring a resolution. Tuesday is surgery day.
My wife as been using Ozempic with a primary goal of lowering her A1C. As a Type 1 diabetic, the delayed gastric emptying presents a problem when her blood glucose drops to a critical low. Consuming glucose is also delayed putting her at risk for going from critical low to comatose. Not really a good risk vs reward.
I can certainly relate to the lack of energy that accompanies anemia. Just a little exercise and you feel wiped out. It's not a great situation when you live at 4600 ft elevation with somewhat less oxygen in the air. Normally, I had extra RBCs to compensate for the altitude. Not right now. It sucks.
I'm reminded that you can't out train a bad diet. If you eat too much, you can't burn enough with exercise to compensate. The washed out feeling from anemia feels a lot like low blood sugar. I think that leads to an attempt to "fix" the problem by eating. It's a miscue.
Good luck on your journey to keep enough RBCs to stay on the green side.
Thanks. That is interesting. Our bodies are so intricately woven; each person presents with their own set of challenges.
Mine is cold agglutinin disease. CAD occurs when RBCs are exposed to low temperatures. It basically clumps the RBCs together and then they are destroyed by the antibodies. Low temperatures, but it has been discovered, infections can also set the “complement cascade” in motion. I put scare quotes around complement cascade as I don’t understand it. I only know it is there.
Did I read that you have surgery today - Tuesday? Or is it next week? Let us know how that goes. My prayers are with you.
Complement cascades can be scary. There is always some nascent complement awaiting a trigger. Once triggered, it's like a pack of dogs going after the target. That just sets the stage for the follow-up action. Hemolysis in your specific case. Stay warm and comfy. No ice bucket challenges.
When I was in grad school immunology, each student in class participated in a blood test. A sample of blood is placed on a slide and a reagent consisting of very fine teflon balls in a orange carrier fluid is dropped onto the sample. The slide is gently rocked to mix the reagent with the blood sample. Many others started ahead of me and kept asking what was supposed to happen. Nothing for most. My slide turned almost solid with just 3 gentle "rocks". Hey, this is different. The basis of the test is the teflon spheres become coated in antibodies from the serum. If there is an auto-antibody present, it will cling to a RBC. If another RBC nearby contacts the same sphere, it "glues" the RBCs together (agglutination). In my case, all of the RBCs converted to a flat, stiff mat on the slide in under 2 seconds. I suppose it would be a bad idea to ever allow teflon spheres in my blood supply. The test is intended to expose the presence of auto-antibodies and often heralds rheumatoid arthritis in later life. It was spot-on in that respect.
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