Posted on 11/06/2023 6:35:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
An Australian woman who took Ozempic to shed a few pounds before her daughter’s wedding has died from gastrointestinal illness — now her husband is warning that the medication is “not worth it at all.”
Trish Webster, 56, was prescribed Ozempic to help her squeeze into her dream dress for her daughter’s nuptials.
Ozempic is a medication approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for people with Type 2 diabetes — it’s become widely used as a weight-loss drug around the world. The drug works by mimicking a natural hormone, GLP-1, which slows down the passage of food through the stomach and intestines, making people feel full longer.
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Severe gastric distress...mostly nausea and upset stomach, to the point of making my physically sick. I read the listed side effects once, and I think I just about had everything. The stomach problems were the worst.
I’m 2.5 weeks into using it (the semaglutide generic version of Ozempic) and I am down ~10 lbs. It has an amazing effect in causing you to simply not head for the refrigerator. You feel a sensation of being full, and not being hungry. I expect to drop about 30-35 lbs., and then go back to the gym and hit weights and the treadmill to burn off the rest. At 68 I am 50 lbs. heavier than I was at 38, when I was running 8.4 miles/day, 4 days a week. I do not expect to get down to that weight or return to anywhere near that distance. But I welcome the assistance in dropping weight as I ease back into exercise.
As my favorite Georgia Supreme Court opinion says “Those with the ability to read have the duty to read.” There are plenty of warnings with the prescription materials, and in order to be evaluated for being placed on the drug you had to go through screening, review of blood tests and a 30-minute counseling session via Zoom, all of which advised about potential problems of constipation and the need to sometimes utilize laxatives. The drug is achieving its effect in part by changing the motility of the contents of your digestive tract. The Post article provides a lot of shallow anecdotal information which is impossible to assemble into something meaningful.
I am optimistic about this drug after seeing the effects on people I know, including my wife, who was borderline diabetic. You need an actual diagnosis of diabetes for it to be prescribed for that purpose, and that application is covered by insurance. But the use my wife had was not covered, or my use, is not covered. The stuff is pricey - roughly $1500-2000 for 6 months’ worth of drug and injections supplies. From the way the distribution is set up and the demeanor of the staff (pure glee) I suspect they are making a cubic crapload of $$ in this phase of things. Once the overall benefits can be measured more accurately in the non- and near- diabetic populations, I suspect that there will be insurance coverage for it, because trimming back obesity must be a big winner for insurance companies. My wife has been on it for 3.5 months and her glucose readings have dropped into mid-high normal range (low 80’s) from a series of readings in the 120’s before she started.
Thanks, we will pass on this one. Funny on how all of the commercials show people laughing, smiling and sometimes dancing but none of them show someone holding their guts wincing in pain.
Back when I was doing KETO and One Meal A Day, after a few days, I noticed I wasn’t hungry at all during the day, and had a lot of energy. I assume that’s because when you are in Ketosis, they body gets the energy it needs and suppresses the feelings of hunger.
I need to get back to doing it.
wow. what a horrible way to go. and all for vanity and a little convenience. if they can get you to trust them, big pharma has many ways to kill you for profit. i hope she was under Grace when her time came.
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Tab?
They still sell that?.........
Slows down passage of food? Oxycodone did that to me along with slowing breathing and heart rate, scary enough. No thanks. Don’t mess with your gastrointestinal system. Messing with it via drugs and surgery killed Elvis and Lisa Marie.
Sugar free gummy bears, they’ll clean you out.
I use Ozempic and my doctor advised me that if I overeat I will feel nauseous, and that feedback will help me not overeat.|
Sure enough, I overate and felt like hell. That feedback loop really did make me consume smaller helpings.
Didn't we once upon a time call that constipation? And that wasn't a good thing either.
I really feel sorry for anyone who goes the drugs route to lose weight.
One meal a day is not difficult to achieve. Many decent Youtube videos (although I have my favorites) on how to get there.
The idea that some medicine would get you there with no harmful side effects is ridonkulous. Hee haw!!
Heard of this happening to a family friend of someone I go to church with taking this drug - obstruction in the digestive tract is what it caused.
It may be a wonder drug, but not for diabetes, or weight loss, but for addiction.
It's needs to be fully researched, but the results are miraculous. People who were taking it for the other reasons, saw their addictions just stop. Gambling addicts suddenly didn't feel like gambling anymore. It probably works because it hits the same receptors as opioids, which also cause constipation.
Eat too big of portion and you have pharmaceutical grade vomit shooting out of your mouth. But that’s OK, there is another angle. It works on cravings and being satisfied. When I started it I would go 3 or 4 days eating like a bird because I was not interested in eating or hungry at all.
Its got a gut ache under your left ribcage that let’s you know you hit your limit on celery sticks. I only take the starter dose of 0.25 mg once a week. Any more than that I can’t take the gut cramps and did I mention the hi velocity, stomach pumping, projectile puke with only a split seconds notice?
Helps good for blood sugar levels and I have lost some weight. The pounds just melt away when you exclude food from your daily diet.
Ever since I started with POTS episodes, I’m housebound and not walking or moving like I used to.
I bought a beautiful plum colored gown for my son’s wedding a few months before the event, then my world got nuked. The day before the event I tried it on. Good thing I did; it didn’t fit. I had to quickly default to a muted gold weave suit.
Now that Im recovering, I have 30 lbs. to shed. That is what a year of being ill and immobilized does to a person.
Never used diet pills, never will. I’ll take it off the old fashioned way...sweating it in the gym.
Maybe a bag of those sugar-free gummy bears, too....
Best wishes for improved health!
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