Anyone having second thoughts with semaglutide due to rare eye condition?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eating too much is terrible for your eyes, so any supplement that reduces how much you eat will be helpful.

Except if it doesn’t. The study literally said 3x increase in eye strokes for people on these meds. If you want to take an educated risk, go ahead, but I don’t understand people who choose to deny info/remain ignorant when presented with facts.

Haven’t you learned anything from this forum? You can’t identify any downsides to the new drugs. If you do you are a troll. It’s not possible for a medical intervention to create issues.

Except that’s a central tenant of medicine generally. Leave it alone without exogenous input if possible.

[Anonymous]

I mean, Tylenol can cause liver failure, but I mean I still use Tylenol.

[Anonymous]

This arguing is all silly. Post a link to the study. No one can evaluate the claims without seeing the study. Your posting a one sentence lay person summary is absolutely useless.

[Anonymous]

I am pre-diabetic and have glaucoma. Advice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am pre-diabetic and have glaucoma. Advice?

Talk to your health care providers. PPs lack the knowledge or experience to offer any advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am pre-diabetic and have glaucoma. Advice?

If you are at risk for glaucoma, semaglutide may not be right for you. That said, it may only be associated with narrow-angle glaucoma. Definitely talk to your provider.

[Anonymous]

It is far over prescribed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is far over prescribed.

Thank You Dr. Didn't Go To Med School!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I know people with significant rye problems and they still take it. They rather be skinny and blind.

No they’d rather be alive and take the low risks of side effects which go along with virtually any medication.

That was not what they articulated to me but thank you for your input.

Really? Someone said to you “I’d rather be skinny and blind?” And meant it?

BS. You’re just another troll. No thanks for your input.

I believe it. Our society hates fat people, so said fat people will do anything to change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Risk of eye problems is in people who already have diabetes (and thus are already at high risk for vision problems). I’m skipping the who getting diabetes part altogether.

Thanks for your concern, Troll.

The new study finds that people with diabetes who were prescribed semaglutide — which is marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy, among other names — were more than four times more likely to develop NAION compared with people with diabetes on other medications.

Similarly, those who were prescribed the drug to treat overweight or obesity were over seven times more likely to receive a NAION diagnosis than people taking other weight loss drugs.

The study also said they found no causal relationship between the drugs and NAION.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I know people with significant rye problems and they still take it. They rather be skinny and blind.

No they’d rather be alive and take the low risks of side effects which go along with virtually any medication.

That was not what they articulated to me but thank you for your input.

Really? Someone said to you “I’d rather be skinny and blind?” And meant it?

BS. You’re just another troll. No thanks for your input.

I believe it. Our society hates fat people, so said fat people will do anything to change.

Sorry, no one would say that out loud. PP made that up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I know people with significant rye problems and they still take it. They rather be skinny and blind.

No they’d rather be alive and take the low risks of side effects which go along with virtually any medication.

That was not what they articulated to me but thank you for your input.

Really? Someone said to you “I’d rather be skinny and blind?” And meant it?

BS. You’re just another troll. No thanks for your input.

I believe it. Our society hates fat people, so said fat people will do anything to change.

Sorry, no one would say that out loud. PP made that up.

That is definitely not made up, and people do say it out loud.

-- a fat person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Risk of eye problems is in people who already have diabetes (and thus are already at high risk for vision problems). I’m skipping the who getting diabetes part altogether.

Thanks for your concern, Troll.

Diabetic retinopathy is a much more treatable condition then this potential side effect. They are not the same. Not even close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am pre-diabetic and have glaucoma. Advice?

Im on Mounjaro and at risk for glaucoma due to family history. Was able to see the glaucoma specialist recently and he ran all the tests - pressure, corneal thickness, visual field, etc.

No signs of glaucoma or eye sight damage! He even pulled me off glaucoma drops (latanoprost) and has me taking Refresh instead for any dry eyes or irritation.

I’m nearsighted and have been since before Mounjaro. He updated my RX and I’m good to go