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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sub-reddit on the topic of patient GLP-1 issues, which was started last year, is potentially eye opening: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1i4ehrv/what_is_the_worst_sideeffectcomplications_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Pancreatitis seems to be the most prevalent in research (7-10%) and on this sub-reddit, but lots of other gnarly stuff. [/quote]

By all means, let's use Reddit for our medical advice and research.  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

It’s a subreddit where doctors are sharing GLP-1 horror stories. Just like the big law subreddit shares industry horror stories.

It’s pretty stark and given how prevalent usage is now and how common it is for people to play doctor with the dosage, the side effects - pancreatitis, thyroid cancer, perforated bowel, gastroperesis, and others will increase. One dr also predicting more stomach cancer based on their observations about the medicine. [/quote]

1) how do you know they are doctors?
2) do you understand the difference between anecdotal evidence and actual research?
3) How do you know they will increase when you don't even have the studies yet?
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I’m not spoon feeding you information. There’s lots of information out there and you can access and review whatever information you want (or not) and draw your own conclusions.

As patients doctor shop to get drugs and lie about their weight to online portals to get and continue medication there is going to be less supervision and there will probably be more issues as patients dose themselves without all the information. How many complications get back to MedWatch is unknown, but looking at the subreddit gave me an idea of the types of issues getting reported to MedWatch and it’s sobering.

The increase in issues would be because the drugs are being taken by a much more medically diverse population with far less monitoring. And because people are taking these drugs for years.

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