Posted on 11/10/2026 7:21:41 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Some countries have compelled Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to include warnings or information about NAION, a rare vision-loss condition, on their GLP-1 drug labels.
There is no NAION warning on the drugs’ labels in the U.S., though the Food and Drug Administration is investigating a potential link.
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly face lawsuits from patients claiming the medications caused the condition, but both companies are fighting the litigation.
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Stop it when you first need glasses.
Sheesh ... even Stevie Wonder saw this happening with these get skinny quick drugs.
FYI ... the drug names, for the companies mentioned above are:
Ozempic and Rybelsus and Wegovy.
It damages some nerves. Loss of cravings can also include loss of sight.
If someone posts the archive.org copy, please let me know.
Gotta get my wife off these drugs and get her to address restoring her gut flora and liver to make her own GLP-1s.
It damages some nerves. Loss of cravings can also include loss of sight.
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Oh, okay ... sure. So, completely worth it, then?
Doc: Hey, Joe ... look at this way ... you might need to learn braille, but ... you’re not overweight!
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No matter how many times my doctor recommends these drugs, I will never take them. I’ve seen the bad side effects and don’t want any part of it.
Agree. I was thinking of asking my doctor - after my SIL lost 40 lbs. and two friends lost 70 and 100 lbs. on GLPs.
Saw the effects of the “safe” COVID shot on family members - and am now scared to death of any of these shots - and their long term effects.
I went to light up a cigg once and just lit the lighter, and my vision went black- couldn’t even see the flame- lasted about 2o seconds or so- no idea what caused it- hasn’t happened since (15 years have gone by)- not diabetic- not on anything that would cause it- Very scary situation-
My daughter lost her gallbladder after taking them. Did the drugs cause it? They never admit a drug did something bad, but they made her stop taking it. It is one of the side effects.
A neighbor fighting the Battle of the Bulge took a different approach.
With over an acre of grass and lots of flowers and bushes, they ended their landscaping contract, bought equipment, and got to work. I see her out there in any kind of weather except snow. Looking good.
This summer brought a special addition! Two large trucks full of wood chips, blocking much of the driveway.
At first sight, I thought she would have the landscapers back; it didn’t happen. Now almost all gone.
Not fast or easy, but working...
Lawsuits over weight loss drugs, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
Worse ... it makes sense that the nerve damage / blindness would just be the most obvious sign of generalized microvascular damage caused by these drugs, at least in type 2 diabetics. If so, the blindness may just be the early sign of a process leading to increased death.
The cells of type 2 diabetics can’t uptake glucose effectively ... which we call “insulin resistance.” Probably a better term, and no less accurate, would be “impaired glucose uptake.”
It is known that keeping the average glucose level of type 2 diabetics down to what is normal for non diabetics is associated with INCREASED cardiovascular mortality rather than reducing mortality to the normal rate for non diabetics. This increased mortality rate shows up, IIRC, at a Hga1c of less than 6.5 to 6.0 in people with type 2 diabetes / impaired glucose uptake, whereas people without type 2 diabetes generally have a lower mortality rate at lower Hga1c down to a Hga1c of 4.
No one knows exactly why people with impaired glucose uptake die more frequently if their Hga1c is driven to a range that is associated with LESS mortality in people without impaired glucose uptake, but it’s possibly because people with impaired glucose uptake need a slightly higher (compared to nondiabetics) serum glucose level to ensure enough glucose gets into, and is used by, delicate tissues.
So diabetics taking Ozempic may still have impaired glucose uptake, even as their serum glucose levels fall due to Ozempic induced “starvation.” Failure of very glucose dependent and fragile tissues like the optic nerve would be a logical result of this combination. By the way, sudden kidney damage would also be an expected result ... and, in fact, Ozempic use is associated with acute kidney injury. That kidney injury is commonly attributed to dehydration due to Ozempic-related nausea / vomiting / GI issues, but it may also be due to a similar glucose-starvation mechanism that might be causing the blindness that is the topic of this thread.
Thing is: the optic nerve and the kidneys are not the only glucose dependent and fragile tissues. Micro blood vessels in general are glucose dependent and fragile. Sure, micro blood vessels are damaged by too high glucose levels ... but in people with insulin resistance, the increased cardiovascular mortality associated with driving serum glucose levels down to normal-for-nondiabetics suggests that, for persons with impaired glucose uptake, there is a known increased risk of death associated with having glucose levels driven to what would be normal for persons without impaired glucose uptake.
I don’t believe this particular risk has been studied yet for Ozempic-induced normoglycemia, but it’s been pretty well established for other diabetes drugs.
Diarrea, muuscle loss and now blindness. Just take another Jab and STFU you lazy fat F.....
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