I was a little heavyset for my daughter’s wedding last year. I wore a black skirt and a blue blouse and a nice set of jewelry made by my choir co-leader, and everyone said, “You look so nice!” and I didn’t die.
So, her intestines ruptured?
Article doesnt say much, sounds painful
“not worth it at all”
Her grieving husband left a google review or something?
I kinda figured we’d eventually be hearing news like this. I will never touch that stuff, and this is a prime example why.
It took me about a year to work up tolerance for a full weekly dose of Ozempic (1 mg per week). The side effects were terrible when I started. I figured the weight loss occurred because my stomach was always so upset that I could barely eat anything. It doesn’t surprise me that it would kill someone.
On the flip side, it does help keep blood sugar in check.
sad how vane some can be to go to drastic measures, and even sadder that doctors help people do unhealthy unnecessary things like vanity cosmetic surgery and Rx fixes and results like this do at times happen.
Just take a couple of football fields worth of cloth and you’ll be good.
/ducking
Being from Oz, she would have been triple vaxxed. I’m sure that had nothing to do with it.
Handy Tip: Just watch Ozempic’s ridiculous commercials. You’ll lose your lunch every time.
O O O Ozempic is now Uh Oh Ozempic.
#slows down the passage of food through the stomach and intestines, #
That doesn’t sound healthy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not sure why anyone would feel sorry for me for using this to lose weight any more than they'd feel sorry for me for taking high blood pressure medicine, it's helping to fix a problem I couldn't fix without it. If everyone could lose it "the old fashioned way" then 40% of the U.S. wouldn't be obese and 70% overweight. It's like any other medication, it's got some side effects but the benefits usually outweigh the risks. Declaring that no one should have access to a drug because one person died from a side effect that's easily controlled is really stupid. It's up to the individual, "You do you" as they say, I'll spend my money how I want and this has been the best thing I've done for myself in a long time. The toll obesity was taking on my body would have meant I was in for a shortened life, I now have a chance to live a full one with a much improved quality of life. The body positivity movement has convinced us that being fat is healthy, it's not. Obesity kills, if it takes medicine to fix it then that's what I'm going to do and screw anyone who has a problem with that.