They took blockbuster drugs for weight loss and diabetes. Now their stomachs are

[Texacon]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218120330


I can't think of anything except the covid vaccine when I read this ... amazing they can't think of it while typing these posts.

question everything (45,562 posts)


They took blockbuster drugs for weight loss and diabetes. Now their stomachs are paralyzed

Joanie Knight has a message for anyone considering drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy, which have become popular for the dramatic weight loss they can help people achieve.

“I wish I never touched it. I wish I’d never heard of it in my life,” said Knight, 37, of Angie, Louisiana. “This medicine made my life hell. So much hell. It has cost me money. It cost me a lot of stress; it cost me days and nights and trips with my family. It’s cost me a lot, and it’s not worth it. The price is too high.”

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The diabetic drug Ozempic and its sister drug for weight loss, Wegovy, utilize the same medication, semaglutide. These and other drugs in this family, which includes medications like tirzepatide and liraglutide, work by mimicking a hormone that’s naturally made by the body, GLP-1. One of the roles of GLP-1 is to slow the passage of food through the stomach, which helps people feel fuller longer.

If the stomach slows down too much, however, that can cause problems.

Knight and Wright have been diagnosed with severe gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis, which their doctors think may have resulted from or been exacerbated by the medication they were taking, Ozempic. Wright said she has also been diagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome, which causes her to throw up multiple times a day.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/took-blockbuster-drugs-weight-loss-192756033.html

Sympthsical (6,889 posts)

1. Any drug is going to have adverse effects in a population

That's why I hate "magic pill" narratives that get going in the media. These drugs can be very good for people who need them, but they're not vitamins. They require monitoring for both the adverse as well as therapeutic effects.

I'm just finishing up my pharmacology crash course right now (final is next week) where I've memorized about 500 or so drugs, and I've learned two things.

Never give an asthma patient anything.

But albuterol cures everything.

That's what I was supposed to get out of that course, I think.

LiberalFighter (46,852 posts)

2. If they advertise the drugs that much. I would be Leary.

Celerity (37,914 posts)

7. 'Murica is magic pill obsessed, in great part due to the nefarious drug and supplement adverts that

are maddeningly allowed to bathe the fruited plain in hyped-up bullshit.

Prairie_Seagull (2,483 posts)

8. I don't use anthing without a track record of positive results measured over years.

I am on 11 meds not one of which is less than 10yo. I try hard to not be a 'Cost of business' patient for big pharma.

GoCubsGo (31,634 posts)

22. I was wondering how long it was going to take

before all the nasty side-effects of these drugs started popping up. These drugs sounded too good to be true, and sure enough...

Yeah ... there are some people in that thread who are either lying now, or have been lying for the last couple of years.  Just sayin'.

KC

[Ralph Wiggum]

Sympthsical (6,889 posts)

1. Any drug is going to have adverse effects in a population

That's why I hate "magic pill" narratives that get going in the media.

Great observation and find, Texacon. I'm certain this DUmmy is vaccinated for the Wuhan to the max and still wears multiple masks in their car and inside their home.

Regarding the weight loss drugs, there is never any quick fix to any malady. I'm old enough to remember when leftists HATED "Big Pharma". Now they love it for some bizarre reason.

[USA4ME]

Prairie_Seagull

8. I don't use anthing (sic) without a track record of positive results measured over years.

And how many COVID shots did you get?

.

[Ralph Wiggum]

And how many COVID shots did you get?

.

Regarding that and the DUmmy's comment, does anyone know if the Feds have ever deemed the COVID "vaccines" to be past the experimental stage? Normally that process to approve drugs takes 5-10 years.

[ADsOutburst]

Great observation and find, Texacon. I'm certain this DUmmy is vaccinated for the Wuhan to the max and still wears multiple masks in their car and inside their home.

Regarding the weight loss drugs, there is never any quick fix to any malady. I'm old enough to remember when leftists HATED "Big Pharma". Now they love it for some bizarre reason.

Does the newfound love of Big Pharma pre-date the COVID vaccine? It would have been hard for them to reconcile being pro-vaccine, but anti-Big Pharma. That may not explain everything, though.

[DefiantSix]

And how many COVID shots did you get?

.

Count the needle tracks in the DUm'Rat's arms.

oh, wait...

[SVPete]

Ozembic and other brands of the same drug are approved for diabetes. If I understand correctly, using it for weight loss is an "off-label" usage (not approved, but legal). From what I've read, Wegovy is a high dose version of the drug. I wonder if using the high dose version plus incorrect dosage control due to off-label use plus the patients' particulars combined to cause the problem.

Moderna's and Pfizer's Covid vaccines were fully approved by the FDA a year or two ago. I do not think J&J's vaccine was fully approved. Novavax's was authorized a year or so ago, so it might also be approved, but I'm not sure. Covid will never go away, any more than flu did after 1919 (something anybody with a quarter of a brain would have known by mid 2020), but the daily new cases are no longer being published, AFAIK, and daily deaths have been in the low 2 digits for a month or three.

[Old n Grumpy]

 

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2. If they advertise the drugs that much. I would be Leary.
It seems there are more and more drug commercials than ever before. And there are a lot of them for problems I never heard of

[SVPete]

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It seems there are more and more drug commercials than ever before. And there are a lot of them for problems I never heard of

There are quite a few drug ads on tube-ovision. What's weird to me is how few actually mention the disease(s) they supposedly treat. How often have you heard the ad, "I was down ... to speak about Rybelsus"? The ads don't mention that Rybelsus is a brand of the diabetes drug this thread is about.