Semaglutide: Do the weight loss lawsuits make you second-guess, trying Semaglutide weight loss drugs?
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Anonymous
This story is as clear as mud. The article states that it's not even known if she was using Ozempic for diabetes or weight loss, how long she'd been on it or what dosage. It isn't clear if the injury is actually from Ozempic. |
Anonymous
| Plenty of lawsuits are frivolous. Also, even if there is merit, a few bad experiences out of hundreds of thousands of users represents pretty good odds -- particularly when balanced against the risks of not losing the weight. |
Anonymous
| I think it’s a lot like the debut of Prozac. |
Anonymous
Gastroparesis is a known side effect of Ozempic, and can lead to bowel obstruction and bowel obstructions can kill - ask Lisa Marie Presley. Typically when large bits of the colon are removed solid stool isn’t a thing anymore. Sometimes you have to get your anus permanently sealed up and poop in a bag attached to your stomach for the rest of your life. But it’s probably better than losing weight via high fiber diet and enduring all that flatulence |
Anonymous
Good analysis. Be prepared for the fury from the angry narcissists, though. |
Anonymous
F you. If it were that simple there wouldn’t be so many overweight people. |
Anonymous
I disagree, kind of. Yes, PP is a bit flippant, but not wrong. With that said, it obviously isn't that easy for many people, for a wide variety of reasons. But it isn't because their bodies just act differently. And everybody here knows that. I am sympathetic, truly, because I struggle every day with my self-control. My sister was obese for over 30 years. At the age of 55, she "accidentally" started losing weight when she bought a second home at the beach and spent months there by herself without her husband and wound up skipping dinner often, and getting more exercise--mostly walking. She lost 20 lbs in 2 months, was thrilled that it happened, so made more changes to her diet and exercise. She has platuead after losing 60 pounds. She is still technically obese, but still, she did this with dietary changes, after struggling psychologically with food her whole life. I know it's just one anecdote, but there really is a way. It's just very very hard. |
Anonymous
I didn’t say it was simple. Our food system is full of poisonous sugar laden food substitutes, like Soylent that is intended to kill people over the long term and which is functioning exactly as designed. You pay for the privilege of consuming it, you pay with the pain of the health conditions it causes in your poor beleaguered body and brain, you pay the doctor for the pleasure of being shamed and then directed to pay in perpetuity to Big Pharma for the drugs that will keep you alive by treating your symptoms - but no matter how much you pay, it is hard to get the time investment and honest messaging from anyone in the healthcare system about the right way to use the natural tools and foods that can cure your illnesses and put an end to your relationship with all those Big Pushers in your life. I know how hard it is, have been battling for decades and tried EVERYTHING and just in this past year I am finally going in the right direction in a way that is totally sustainable without pain and constant food noise, but no it is not effortless and yes because I live in the same toxic environment you do where pushers are everywhere trying to sell me back into the addictive foods that will poison my gut liver and brain it is a constant battle and I have to cultivate coping mechanisms to fight addictive urges and until the food environment in our society changes that’s reality. And yeah it takes sleeping right and stress management and I’m lucky it’s just me I’m sure it would be tough work to detox kids and a spouse too, but given the rate of prediabetes and emerging metabolic disorder in normal weight adults and children alike, it’s probably worth it to make a dent in the toxic amount of sugar your family is likely consuming on the regular Added sugar is addictive and it is in nearly everything on grocery shelves and much that is in the dairy case and frozen food cases too. Watch the film Fed Up, it’s ten years old and totally accurate still except that the disease rates have skyrocketed that much more over another decade of the Big Food poisoning of America. I mean I just got angry. They are stealing my life, just like they stole my mother’s life with their doctor recommended Winstons. So I said no and now I eat real food and I just don’t buy anyone saying they’re eating real food, high fiber and can’t lose weight. You can’t help but lose weight. I’m down 30, have stones more to go but slow and steady is how it piled on and I can take the time to do it right so my muscles stick around and my skin keeps pace as much as possible. And people keep making fun of me and calling me gross because I have flatulence throughout the day which is perfectly normal and sign of a thriving gut microbiome. A thriving gut microbiome stimulates the natural production of GLP-1 with zero risk of gastroparesis. |
Anonymous
| I would never use a drug like these. However I am naturally thin (5'5" and range from 98-108lbs; I'm 45). I think they will make everyone who uses them rebound the weight as SOON as the come off them. And they inflate all our med coverage 🙄 Being fat is not a medical condition; it's a lack of discipline and laziness. Anyone can eat less if they actually TRY. |
Anonymous
I can assure you flatulence is NOT a sign of a healthy gut biome. Quite the opposite, actually. |
Anonymous
How lucky for you that you won the genetics lottery. For those of us who did not, who have spent our lives trying one diet after another, these meds are a life saver. |
Anonymous
Are you an idiot? Of course flatulence is normal in a healthy gut. Google it. A gut that isn’t off-gassing is a gut that is buried in fat and sugar or lacking in normal motility and function. It is 100% normal to fart or belch 15-25 times daily, and it is unhealthy to try to hold flatulence in. This board is full of constipated immature people who sneer and scoff and say farting is gross and not normal. I’m beginning to suspect that started their food or other substance addiction in middle school and their emotional growth stunted at the same stage. |
Anonymous
You have to be a troll trying to stir up trouble. Either that or you’re delusional from being a malnourished anorexic with an underweight BMI. Whatever the case, go away. No one wants to hear your drivel. |
Anonymous
Seriously, there is something wrong with you. I don’t eat processed food or large volumes of sugar or garage. Quite the opposite. I generally need a very high amount of real food (in your terms) to support all the endurance sport training I do, and I can’t think of a single day I’ve ever torn ass 15 times in a day let alone 25. I’m talking like 4000-4500 calories of Whole Foods on weekends. I spend a lot of time around a bunch of other skinny middle age dorks/men and they aren’t like that either, and they also eat buckets of real food. There is waste product, but that’s entirely different than claiming 15-25 stealth ducks a day is normal. |
Anonymous
You're wrong, you just want to feel superior to everyone else. You have serious self confidence issues if you have to take it out on other people like this. I pity people like you who have to insult others to feel good about themselves. |