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re: Woman who used ozempic now afflicted with permanent diarrhea

Posted on 1/13/24 at 7:06 pm to
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 1/13/24 at 7:06 pm to
Are the side effects worse for people who don’t really have diabetes or those not truly obese?

Using it to treat pre-diabetes like with this woman seems overkill or a way for doctors to justify prescribing it.

More and more since covid and blm I am seeing doctors skirt around the hippocratic oath. Saw my first woke agreement to not offend anyone and be inclusive or find a new doctor’s office with an upcoming referral from my regular doctor. Besides the unreasonable and one-sided political definitions of “offensive” that will get used in many corporate health networks and multi office chain type doctors’ practices how long before some always offended employee starts searching out patients’ social media and supported politics that they don’t like and getting people kicked out for things the offended had to search out to get offended by and not anything the patient did or said at office or to anyone at office.

This post was edited on 1/13/24 at 7:07 pm
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 1/14/24 at 8:07 am to
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Are the side effects worse for people who don’t really have diabetes or those not truly obese?


I think it’s the way these folks are being prescribed it. The SO (diabetic) was prescribed it by his endocrinologist and they slowly titrated him up, encouraged him to increase fiber in his diet to avoid the bowel issues, etc. His only side effect he’s been getting is mild nausea that’s been helped by a ginger supplement.

He was reading in a forum with others who have been prescribed it that the ones doing it for weight loss were prescribed the full dose out of the gate and received no real education on how to manage side effects. It seemed those were the people who were really struggling with side effects.

The diabetic meds the SO was on had worse side effects (Metformin in particular). He’s off of all of them now.
This post was edited on 1/14/24 at 8:08 am
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