Posted on 10/08/2025 11:02:09 AM PDT by Baladas
The use of GLP-1 medications has skyrocketed due to their ability to help people lose weight as well as their involvement in managing type 2 diabetes.
"Unusual" Side Effect of Ozempic-Like Drugs Challenges Doctors: ResearchThe use of GLP-1 medications has skyrocketed due to their ability to help people lose weight as well as their involvement in managing type 2 diabetes. Edited by: NDTV News Desk Health Oct 08, 2025 14:44 pm IST Published On Oct 08, 2025 11:10 am IST Last Updated On Oct 08, 2025 14:44 pm IST Read Time: 3 mins Share TwitterWhatsAppFacebookRedditEmail "Unusual" Side Effect of Ozempic-Like Drugs Challenges Doctors: Research GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are popularly consumed as weight-loss alternatives. GLP-1 medications, Ozempic and Wegovy, may disrupt cancer imaging and its diagnosis, new research has revealed. GLP-1 agonists were first designed for type 2 Diabetes treatment, but over time, they grew popular for their non-approved use in weight loss.
GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) is a hormone that helps lower blood sugar and control appetite by increasing insulin and slowing digestion.
The adverse effects of GLP-1 weight-loss medications have varied from mild to bizarre, ranging from deflated breasts and unexpected pregnancies to drooping jowls and sulphurous burps. Now, radiologists and imaging experts have identified a new issue: patients on these medications exhibit different uptake patterns on PET-CT scans.
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I see my endocrinologist every 3 months, and check my blood sugar every morning, which is transmitted to my primary doctor electronically. Numbers are better when I walk regularly, but that’s a challenge due to work.
Most people who have lost 100 to 150 lbs do not look their best.
However they move better and their hormones line up
I lost over 100 lbs. over a year and a half and have kept it off for almost a year now. No drugs or weird diets. Just walking an hour the first thing every morning and cutting out most processed foods, all artificial sweeteners, reducing carbohydrates and increasing protein.
When I started walking, I would have to stop and rest every few minutes when my heart rate got too high. After a couple of months, I was jogging for an hour every morning and stopping to do jumping jacks to try and keep my heart rate up (I aim for 50-60 bpm over my resting heart rate).
I was obese for most of my adult life and now weigh what I did when I graduated from high school almost 50 years ago (though it is put together a lot differently than it was back then). If I can do it, anyone can.
It was developed in 2011 and tested for six years before approval in 2017. Just how many decades of testing is a medicine supposed to have before someone gets to use it?
I decided to lose 110 pounds after I hit 60, because it was either get busy trying to stay alive or continue falling apart. After being obese most of my adult life, I had Type II diabetes, tachycardia, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, and myriad other heath conditions, all of which dropped away along with the weight.
At my stage of life, I could not care less how I look to anyone but my wife, and we have been together for more than 40 years now. She didn't leave me when I was over 100 pounds overweight, and she hasn't left me since I became thin and wrinkly (when you lose that much weight at my age, the skin never goes away).
They started studying the MRNA delivery system in in the 1990s. So I take it back. There was less time spent studying this crap.
Goodie
I noticed most when I skipped a week waiting on delivery
Then jumped 5-7.5
It was negligible but I did notice
I don’t puke easy
Ole Miss teaches on that lol
I found not over indulging and exercise does wonders.
Just take in lots of protein and water. You have to keep your muscle mass loss at a minimum.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll pass it on. It may be dosage, it may just be his body won’t tolerate it for other reasons. He’s going to give it another week. (Not sure I’d be that patient but then I’m a weenie when it comes to drugs).
it has had a lot more testing than the covid shots.
they are having a shoot-a-thon at my work today, I have mostly refrained from laughing at all the people wearing masks that I have never seen before.
While less popular than the injectable once-a-week GLP-1 shots, the once-a-day pill form are becoming much more common. For example, Ozempic and its pill form Rybelsus.
Insurers are also more likely to approve the pill form, I suspect because it is both cheaper and safer than the shot.
I have a neck that would make a Tom Turkey proud. lol
Don’t discount that losing fat and obesity in men makes their Ying yings work better..
People seem larger to me the last few years.
RE: deflated breasts and unexpected pregnancies to drooping jowls and sulphurous burps.
PB Pritzker is taking the injections and all these side effects have not bothered him at all.
Eye problems....
That is scary.
My past MD admitted to me that the big Pharma corporations pay the studies off for new items if they show bad side effects, suppress them and deny they ever did the studies, and go on to ones that look favorable, which they trumpet in their advertising.
Eye problems....
That is scary.
My past MD admitted to me that the big Pharma corporations pay the studies off for new items if they show bad side effects, suppress them and deny they ever did the studies, and go on to ones that look favorable, which they trumpet in their advertising.
Yep
I bought lite weights for my arms too
Aside from loving rice I’m pretty much like Owsley Stanley
A carnivore lol
Tks btw
It’s new to me but it works and is a positive for sure
When I bottom out I look forward to 34 jeans lol
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