Ozempic death - ileus

[Anonymous]

Yeah, if eating carrots were giving her months of eating diarrhea, that would be a problem; and she shouldn't have continued eating carrots just to fit into a dress.

This is only in the news because Ozempic is new; not because this shows that it makes life notably more dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, if eating carrots were giving her months of eating diarrhea, that would be a problem; and she shouldn't have continued eating carrots just to fit into a dress.

This is only in the news because Ozempic is new; not because this shows that it makes life notably more dangerous.

Except— it isn’t new. It’s been used to treat diabetes since 2017

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, if eating carrots were giving her months of eating diarrhea, that would be a problem; and she shouldn't have continued eating carrots just to fit into a dress.

This is only in the news because Ozempic is new; not because this shows that it makes life notably more dangerous.

Except— it isn’t new. It’s been used to treat diabetes since 2017

Newer than carrots, anyway. Or maybe it's in the news because of the emotional, moral sentiments around weight in our society. Because drugs are "cheating," death and injury are the natural consequences because "cheaters never prosper" or "God is angry at arrogant humans trying to avoid the natural order" or "there's no such thing as a free lunch" or some other narrative that this news can slot into.

[Anonymous]

I'm unable to tolerate aspirin-it kills my stomach (and makes my ears ring). If I took it for 6 months, I'd probably be dead too-but billions of other people take it just fine.

But unlike this lady, I have enough sense to NOT take it since I cannot tolerate it. She kept right on with the ozempic even though she clearly could not tolerate it. I am actually on Wegovy, myself, and have little to no side effects-like most people on it.

[Anonymous]

I know a young woman in her twenties who took Ozempic for a year. When she started it she was slightly obese (BMI 32) but she kept taking it until she became quite thin. However she was sick the whole year. Diarrhea, lots of GI issues, nausea. But she said she had been told to expect these side effects and she read online a lot of people had them. She eventually went off it as she started having major GI problems and her doctor wouldn’t prescribe it anymore. She has been off it for over a year now and still has ongoing GI problems. I don’t know why they didn’t resolve when she stopped the meds but I hope she hasn’t done permanent damage at such a young age. Especially as she was at a healthy weight within a few months but kept taking it to be thin.

[Anonymous]

I get the sense that OP and other PPs would have been happy if the woman in the article had died of an obesity-related heart attack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get the sense that OP and other PPs would have been happy if the woman in the article had died of an obesity-related heart attack.

You are sick in the head for even thinking this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a young woman in her twenties who took Ozempic for a year. When she started it she was slightly obese (BMI 32) but she kept taking it until she became quite thin. However she was sick the whole year. Diarrhea, lots of GI issues, nausea. But she said she had been told to expect these side effects and she read online a lot of people had them. She eventually went off it as she started having major GI problems and her doctor wouldn’t prescribe it anymore. She has been off it for over a year now and still has ongoing GI problems. I don’t know why they didn’t resolve when she stopped the meds but I hope she hasn’t done permanent damage at such a young age. Especially as she was at a healthy weight within a few months but kept taking it to be thin.

This will be more common when it's prescribed to fight childhood obesity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doctors need to be careful prescribing this off label!

The manufacturer’s PR is pushing off label prescriptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a young woman in her twenties who took Ozempic for a year. When she started it she was slightly obese (BMI 32) but she kept taking it until she became quite thin. However she was sick the whole year. Diarrhea, lots of GI issues, nausea. But she said she had been told to expect these side effects and she read online a lot of people had them. She eventually went off it as she started having major GI problems and her doctor wouldn’t prescribe it anymore. She has been off it for over a year now and still has ongoing GI problems. I don’t know why they didn’t resolve when she stopped the meds but I hope she hasn’t done permanent damage at such a young age. Especially as she was at a healthy weight within a few months but kept taking it to be thin.

Possibly it's a correlation but not causation situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a young woman in her twenties who took Ozempic for a year. When she started it she was slightly obese (BMI 32) but she kept taking it until she became quite thin. However she was sick the whole year. Diarrhea, lots of GI issues, nausea. But she said she had been told to expect these side effects and she read online a lot of people had them. She eventually went off it as she started having major GI problems and her doctor wouldn’t prescribe it anymore. She has been off it for over a year now and still has ongoing GI problems. I don’t know why they didn’t resolve when she stopped the meds but I hope she hasn’t done permanent damage at such a young age. Especially as she was at a healthy weight within a few months but kept taking it to be thin.

This will be more common when it's prescribed to fight childhood obesity.

In your learned opinion, which will be more damaging overall? Unaddressed childhood obesity or side effects from tackling the problem?

[Anonymous]

As a diabetic who literally can’t get my medication filled because of all these people trying to lose weight, all I have to say is meh. I’ve never had any side effects with this medication so I feel like people who use this for vanity weight loss deserve what they get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get the sense that OP and other PPs would have been happy if the woman in the article had died of an obesity-related heart attack.

You are sick in the head for even thinking this!

I notice you aren't saying that PP is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a diabetic who literally can’t get my medication filled because of all these people trying to lose weight, all I have to say is meh. I’ve never had any side effects with this medication so I feel like people who use this for vanity weight loss deserve what they get.

What makes you think side-effects for diabetics (or, I guess, medically advisable weight-loss) will be any different than side-effects for "vanity" weight loss?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a diabetic who literally can’t get my medication filled because of all these people trying to lose weight, all I have to say is meh. I’ve never had any side effects with this medication so I feel like people who use this for vanity weight loss deserve what they get.

You deserve to have diabetes that you can't treat too.