re: How many posters here have an ol lady taking the ozempic shot?

My wife does. She went from 150 to 120. Probably 4 months. They are gonna reduce dose to a maintain dose level.

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I'm asking what side effects he's talking about that wouldn’t already be known after 20 years of human studies on this drug.

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mRNA vaccines have been around that long too

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MIL got all pissy this Thanksgiving because my wife didn't comment on the weight she lost. She talked about all the healthy food choices she was making and sacrifices. Turns out she's on Ozempic

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Uhhh, do we have the same MIL?

My wife's mother is a known and well established attention whore, especially at family gatherings. She pulled this exact same thing at Thanksgiving, tried to wear a sundress when it was like 40 degrees outside and was obviously fishing for compliments. Even made a bunch of comments about how she's working so hard to lose weight, had owned this dress for years but it was always too small until now, blah blah blah just looking for someone to say something.

Unfortunately we all know this woman well at this point, so no one took the bait and she got extremely upset and pouty. Sent my wife and her sister a bunch of whiny, woe is me texts later that night about how no one was paying attention to her and she just felt so disrespected and no one loves her. She accused my mom (who is nothing but a saint and the nicest lady you'd ever encounter, for real) of trying to compete with her for everyone's favorite and take over her daughter, etc.

A month later she let it slip that she has been on ozempic to lose weight and that's why she had been in the hospital for several days the previous week. Side note: she was also upset that my wife only spent 2 hours with her at the hospital and didn't stay to take care of her for longer. We have a 2 year old and I'm the single income in our family

At the same time she admitted all this, she also said she's still taking it because she likes the compliments shes getting

I'm not talking about me specifically, but people in general. I've learned over the years "there's no free lunch". Slow and steady wins the day. I have family, however, who are always trying to find shortcuts. They think I'm pessimistic, etc when I say there's no free lunch. Health is a lifestyle. Usually, it takes a wake up call to get most people motivated. Fear is a powerful motivator. However, continously living in fear isn't good. I think if people could do any kind of exercise enough to feel good and see some kind of benefit is key. They may have relapses sometimes, but they'll remember how much better they felt and start back again to whatever it was they were doing.

I know a handful of people. Only one has lost the weight and kept it off since getting off of it. The rest are like yo-yos. Lost a big chunk of weight, doc won’t continue the prescription, so they gain it all back then some, and then they’re back to being qualified for their doc to rewrite the prescription. Turns out, you actually need to make some healthy changes to keep it off. WHo KnEW?!!

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have a niece who is very pretty, 38, and was about 15 pounds heavier than she wanted to be. She, and all her friends take it, and they are too skinny now.

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Are doctors prescribing to people that just need to lose 15-20lbs?

I'd have never heard of this shite if it wasn't for the OT. I also dong congregate with any gross fatties.

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Are doctors prescribing to people that just need to lose 15-20lbs?

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You can get it (or some variation of it) at med spas.

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Both have no long term data, yet one’s injected with no qualms.

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Well that’s just patently wrong. One has 40+ years of data and one was made in 6 months.

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Well that’s just patently wrong. One has 40+ years of data and one was made in 6 months.

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Okie dokie, let’s see how it works out.