I have a friend who took this on her doctor’s recommendation, and she was quite ill for a month (or more) after starting treatment. She’s a wonderful, beautiful Christian woman. She talked about the same side effects. She’s lost 80 pounds, and has Ozempic face.
I don’t care how thin I’d *like* to be. I won’t be taking this medication. She’s my real life example of what not to do.
I have TWO friends taking this drug. One has lost over 100#. Every time I see her, I ask if she’s hoping for us to bury her in a SHOE BOX in the near future. She looks nothing like her old, happy, fat self. Nothing. She’s aged 20 years in the past few. Plus, I see her hand tremors that she tries to hide. Grrrr!
The other has lost maybe 15 pounds, but you’d never know it. Both are on dosages of 5 and 3...and they have to stay on it the rest of their lives if they want to maintain a weight loss.
I really fear for them both! When I think of which one of us 4 friends of 45+ years is going to go first, it’s no longer a speculation. Makes me so SAD that people care about weight loss to this extent! Our fourth group member is tall and thin and has always been and always will be. And she eats like a horse, LOL!
As a woman who had to ration every morsel of food that went into her mouth from the time she was 18 until her mid-30’s, (Army Fitness Standards USED to be VERY strict!) I am 100% over this.
“With God as my witness, with God as my witness, I will NEVER be skinny AGAIN!” ~ Scarlet O’Hara, Spokeswoman for Normal-Sized Women, Everywhere