Shocking but true. Also reports of people choking on stomach contents under anaesthesia because Ozempic slows down stomach release. It is another lethal “wonder drug” by big pharma!!! Take at your own peril!!!
The FDA says Ozempic is ok and that's good enough for me to not have any problem with Chris Christie, George Conway, Larry Hogan or Jerry Nadler taking it. It is to President Trump's great credit that he recently implored people to not call Christie a fat pig.
I have known for well over 3 decades 98% of Big Pharma’s creations were Snake Oil.. just a cynical money grab.. essentially many of their previous concoctions were setting the stage for the current Covid Bio-Weapon used for the Psyop...
So a pharmaceutical that actually does the opposite of what it is supposed to do? So a pharmaceutical that actually harms instead of heals? Is there a pattern here? One must ask themselves- is this purposeful or merely incompetent?
I’m sure that’s a completely rhetorical question as after the last 3 yrs many of us have learned the answer to that question, unfortunately some the.hard way!
People, there is only a very small minority of folks who ever truly need pharma help for weight control. For the vast majority, get disciplined! Cut out all refined sugar. Don't buy products that have ingredients on the label with things that end in '-ose', '-ol', etc. (ex. Sucralose) Many are just manufactured sugar substitutes and such. Make time to make your own food, it isn't that hard. Do this for two months, and increase/do faster-paced walking, and you will notice a big difference. (Just also understand that many of us, in doing the above, will go through 'withdrawal' and you may also experience some 'flu-y' feelings the first few weeks as your fat cells start to shrink, which can release some toxins your body had stored in the fat cells. Push through it! It WILL be worth it. Then after two months, you can layer in some additional diet changes and exercise. Start out focused on a few short term wins first to get wind in your sails. You CAN do these minimal things!)
Literally just off a call with a client on Ozempic and came to me for wider health issues not weight loss, but trying to wean them off by putting in place other measures that lead to weight loss. In an attempt to raise awareness to the other steps to take that produce results without serious risks. And have scheduled in follow up bloods so it’s easier to have the conversation about the issues of the toxicity of the drug as well as it’s lack of relative effectiveness. If some can see the whole picture it’s easier to get them to see where drugs fit and don’t fit in to their health. All those listed side effects are the health challenges we started with but they decided weight loss had got too important and wanted the quick win. I advised otherwise but new clients aren’t always going to listen to everything you say until you get their trust with experiential learning in the real world. Weight loss is such a suckers market not unlike fear of a virus and experimental bioweapon injectables.
A lot of the "SERIOUS conditions" accrue as side effects acculmulated from all the previous drugs consumed so they wind up being SERIOUSLY COMPROMISED HEALTHWISE AKA chronically ill
I’m not willing to suggest that all drugs have no beneficial purpose to anyone, ever, regardless of circumstances. What I’m saying is be discerning. Understand the risks, benefits, and alternatives. Use informed consent and exercise caution.
And, btw, it would be instructive to realize the simple fact that no text of pathology would suggest that disease is caused by the lack of a drug. None!
In a perfect world your suggestions would seem quite reasonable and appropriate However we are in a situation where most doctors do not any longer provide informed consent and often are clueless themselves about the risks and dangers of what they are prescribing or whether it is incompatible with drugs their patient is currently taking? Many doctors will not discontinue a drug anyway because they are not sure what is causing the new symptom or problem. Risks, benefits and alternatives. Algorithms now recommend certain drugs for a patient's condition, so the doctor will go with that if he or she expects insurance to cover it. Trust the algorithm. Sure. If you want something else...an "alternative"........be prepared to pay a bundle out of your own pocket.
For profit medicine doesnt necessarily have the patient's best interests at heart. It depends strictly on what your particular insurance will pay for. And the kind of policy you get has to do with how much you can afford or how much your company is willing to pay in premiums for a blanket policy covering their various categories of employees. If you are on a low tier of Obamacare do you think for one minute that you will receive the same options as an elite holder of the "GOLD" level policy?
You can be as "discerning" as you like, but in my case at least, "discernment" led to abandoning the idiotic medical system entirely and taking my chances.
So far, sorry not sorry.
A person without any medical background whatsoever is even more likely not to be able to navigate the system wisely. Will just go along with whatever is recommended to him or her. And if they experience adverse reactions or nefarious side effects, the AI or doctor in it for the money is not going to grieve that person's loss.
I do not entirely disagree. However, what are you suggesting? Follow the Christian Science religion and watch your kid die of a peanut allergy because the EpiPen is bad? Your and your all cap rantings make you appear off the wall. Display some common sense.
You apparently have me mixed up with some one else, lol. All cap rantings? Seriously? You are the one ranting and introducing irrelevancies that I never even suggested for other people to follow?
Christian Science?
Letting your child die of a peanut allergy because you won't use an epipen?
Now here you are indulging in nonsense hyperbole: in my post, I said that I absolutely do not personally choose to get entangled with the Medical/pharmaceutical game.
It is ill advised, for the reasons I pointed out. But hey, if someone prefers to exercise THEIR dependence on the Medical/pharmaceutical Corporatocracy, then have at it! It's their decision. Utterly. Just don't demand that i or anyone else either join or otherwise affirm them in their personal healthcare decisions
Did this clarify my position on the subject for you, GLK?
When are we going to learn? Seriously. This isn't surprising at all. The entire weight loss industry is filled with scammers that take people's money, get results in the short term, and then cause health problems and rebounds. UGH.
I was on Olympic but the insurance discontinued because the price went up so significantly now on victoza and getting blisters on my stomach. Never had them before.
sure, the listed side-effects are dire, but, this is in yer face horrifying - gastroparesis/ Ozempic digestion not 5min but 5 hrs!!= food rot/putrification... www.cnn.com /2023/07/25/health/weight-loss-diabetes-drugs-gastroparesis/index.html
'Wright had to be hospitalized for dehydration related to the vomiting, and that prompted her to push her doctors for more answers. A gastric-emptying study showed that she had gastroparesis. Her doctors put her on two more medications to try to help her manage her symptoms but didn’t take her off the Ozempic because they didn’t suspect it was contributing.
...vinstead of just vomiting the food she’d recently eaten, Wright noticed that she was throwing up food she’d eaten three or four days prior.'
They took blockbuster drugs for weight loss and diabetes. Now their stomachs are paralyzed
7/25/2023
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.”
Brenda Allen, 42, of Dallas feels the same way. Her doctor prescribed Wegovy for weight loss.
“And even now, being off the medication for almost a year, I’m still having a lot of problems,” Allen said. She said she was at urgent care recently after vomiting so much that she became dehydrated.
Emily Wright, 38, a teacher in Toronto, started taking Ozempic in 2018. Over a year, she said, she lost 80 pounds, which she’s been able to keep off. But Wright said she now vomits so frequently that she had to take a leave of absence from her job.
“I’ve almost been off Ozempic for a year, but I’m still not back to my normal,” Wright said.
The diabetes 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.
Allen doesn’t have a diagnosis for her stomach problems but said they started only after she was encouraged by her doctor to take Wegovy to lose weight. She is managing her ongoing nausea and vomiting with a medication called Zofran and prescription probiotics while she waits for more tests in October — the first available appointments she could get with specialists.
Doctors say that more cases like these are coming to light as the popularity of the drugs soared. The US Food and Drug Administration said it has received reports of people on the drugs experiencing stomach paralysis that sometimes has not resolved by the time it’s reported.
And last month, the American Society of Anesthesiologists warned that patients should stop these medications a week before surgery because they can increase the risk that people will regurgitate food during an operation, even if they’ve fasted as directed. Vomiting under anesthesia sometimes causes food and stomach acid to get into the lungs, which can cause pneumonia and other problems after surgery.
So far, extreme and unrelenting cases like these are believed to be rare, and they may be a result of the drug unmasking or worsening an existing “slow stomach.” Doctors say people can have a silent condition called delayed gastric emptying and not know it. There’s nothing on the drugs’ labels that specifically cautions that gastroparesis may occur.
In response to CNN’s request for comment, Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, pointed out that drugs in this class have been used for 15 years to treat diabetes and for eight years to treat obesity, and they have been extensively studied in the real world and in clinical trials.
“Gastrointestinal (GI) events are well-known side effects of the GLP-1 class. For semaglutide, the majority of GI side effects are mild to moderate in severity and of short duration. GLP-1’s are known to cause a delay in gastric emptying, as noted in the label of each of our GLP-1 RA medications. Symptoms of delayed gastric emptying, nausea and vomiting are listed as side effects,” the statement said...
On the other hand, this is how the drugs work, although not many doctors or patients understand this or the problems that may follow, he said.
Camilleri received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how one of the first GLP-1 agonists, a drug called liraglutide, affects stomach function.
He recruited 40 obese adults and randomly assigned them to take increasing doses of liraglutide or a placebo, which had no active ingredients.
After five weeks, he had people in the study eat a meal laced with a radioactive tracer so he could see how long food stayed in their stomachs. People taking liraglutide had dramatically slowed digestion compared with those on the placebo; it took about 70 minutes for half the food they ate to leave their stomachs, compared with just four minutes in the placebo group. And that was just the average delay: In some patients on liraglutide, the time it took for half the meal to leave their stomachs was 151 minutes, or more than two and a half hours.[..]
Shocking but true. Also reports of people choking on stomach contents under anaesthesia because Ozempic slows down stomach release. It is another lethal “wonder drug” by big pharma!!! Take at your own peril!!!
The FDA says Ozempic is ok and that's good enough for me to not have any problem with Chris Christie, George Conway, Larry Hogan or Jerry Nadler taking it. It is to President Trump's great credit that he recently implored people to not call Christie a fat pig.
I have known for well over 3 decades 98% of Big Pharma’s creations were Snake Oil.. just a cynical money grab.. essentially many of their previous concoctions were setting the stage for the current Covid Bio-Weapon used for the Psyop...
These tictoc celebs need to binge eat and binge jab. What could possible go wrong?
So a pharmaceutical that actually does the opposite of what it is supposed to do? So a pharmaceutical that actually harms instead of heals? Is there a pattern here? One must ask themselves- is this purposeful or merely incompetent?
I’m sure that’s a completely rhetorical question as after the last 3 yrs many of us have learned the answer to that question, unfortunately some the.hard way!
Purposeful. Its cash up front and a death which puts big Harma in the Weffers’ favour. You know, one depopulation success at a time.
People, there is only a very small minority of folks who ever truly need pharma help for weight control. For the vast majority, get disciplined! Cut out all refined sugar. Don't buy products that have ingredients on the label with things that end in '-ose', '-ol', etc. (ex. Sucralose) Many are just manufactured sugar substitutes and such. Make time to make your own food, it isn't that hard. Do this for two months, and increase/do faster-paced walking, and you will notice a big difference. (Just also understand that many of us, in doing the above, will go through 'withdrawal' and you may also experience some 'flu-y' feelings the first few weeks as your fat cells start to shrink, which can release some toxins your body had stored in the fat cells. Push through it! It WILL be worth it. Then after two months, you can layer in some additional diet changes and exercise. Start out focused on a few short term wins first to get wind in your sails. You CAN do these minimal things!)
Literally just off a call with a client on Ozempic and came to me for wider health issues not weight loss, but trying to wean them off by putting in place other measures that lead to weight loss. In an attempt to raise awareness to the other steps to take that produce results without serious risks. And have scheduled in follow up bloods so it’s easier to have the conversation about the issues of the toxicity of the drug as well as it’s lack of relative effectiveness. If some can see the whole picture it’s easier to get them to see where drugs fit and don’t fit in to their health. All those listed side effects are the health challenges we started with but they decided weight loss had got too important and wanted the quick win. I advised otherwise but new clients aren’t always going to listen to everything you say until you get their trust with experiential learning in the real world. Weight loss is such a suckers market not unlike fear of a virus and experimental bioweapon injectables.
Medical science doesn’t know nuthin. Drugs, any drugs, should be a last resort for people with serious conditions. Side effects are inevitable.
A lot of the "SERIOUS conditions" accrue as side effects acculmulated from all the previous drugs consumed so they wind up being SERIOUSLY COMPROMISED HEALTHWISE AKA chronically ill
I’m not willing to suggest that all drugs have no beneficial purpose to anyone, ever, regardless of circumstances. What I’m saying is be discerning. Understand the risks, benefits, and alternatives. Use informed consent and exercise caution.
And, btw, it would be instructive to realize the simple fact that no text of pathology would suggest that disease is caused by the lack of a drug. None!
In a perfect world your suggestions would seem quite reasonable and appropriate However we are in a situation where most doctors do not any longer provide informed consent and often are clueless themselves about the risks and dangers of what they are prescribing or whether it is incompatible with drugs their patient is currently taking? Many doctors will not discontinue a drug anyway because they are not sure what is causing the new symptom or problem. Risks, benefits and alternatives. Algorithms now recommend certain drugs for a patient's condition, so the doctor will go with that if he or she expects insurance to cover it. Trust the algorithm. Sure. If you want something else...an "alternative"........be prepared to pay a bundle out of your own pocket.
For profit medicine doesnt necessarily have the patient's best interests at heart. It depends strictly on what your particular insurance will pay for. And the kind of policy you get has to do with how much you can afford or how much your company is willing to pay in premiums for a blanket policy covering their various categories of employees. If you are on a low tier of Obamacare do you think for one minute that you will receive the same options as an elite holder of the "GOLD" level policy?
You can be as "discerning" as you like, but in my case at least, "discernment" led to abandoning the idiotic medical system entirely and taking my chances.
So far, sorry not sorry.
A person without any medical background whatsoever is even more likely not to be able to navigate the system wisely. Will just go along with whatever is recommended to him or her. And if they experience adverse reactions or nefarious side effects, the AI or doctor in it for the money is not going to grieve that person's loss.
I do not entirely disagree. However, what are you suggesting? Follow the Christian Science religion and watch your kid die of a peanut allergy because the EpiPen is bad? Your and your all cap rantings make you appear off the wall. Display some common sense.
You apparently have me mixed up with some one else, lol. All cap rantings? Seriously? You are the one ranting and introducing irrelevancies that I never even suggested for other people to follow?
Christian Science?
Letting your child die of a peanut allergy because you won't use an epipen?
Now here you are indulging in nonsense hyperbole: in my post, I said that I absolutely do not personally choose to get entangled with the Medical/pharmaceutical game.
It is ill advised, for the reasons I pointed out. But hey, if someone prefers to exercise THEIR dependence on the Medical/pharmaceutical Corporatocracy, then have at it! It's their decision. Utterly. Just don't demand that i or anyone else either join or otherwise affirm them in their personal healthcare decisions
Did this clarify my position on the subject for you, GLK?
🤣
Go on bro - eat 12 square meals a day; lie on the couch watching Netflix day and night; become best friends with your green gunk oozing bed sores.
But hey, wait a second bro, have you heard of Ozempic?
Just get on that regimen bro and your lard will drop lower than US/Russia relationship temperature.
Downside - hell nothing really, except a negligible theoretical risk of a blowout of your distended gut all the way to Ukraine.
Go for it bro.
When are we going to learn? Seriously. This isn't surprising at all. The entire weight loss industry is filled with scammers that take people's money, get results in the short term, and then cause health problems and rebounds. UGH.
There are better ways. The research that I've done shows that the move away from dairy fat is contributing to metabolic problems - including obesity and diabetes. https://mattcook.substack.com/p/this-1-refrigerator-staple-is-giving
It's high time that we get away from these dangerous quick fixes and get more into healing the body from the causes up.
All about the money and destroying people.
Exactly. The stupid worshipers and uncritical idolators of legalized drugs as their saviours will pay the price for believing lies.
I was on Olympic but the insurance discontinued because the price went up so significantly now on victoza and getting blisters on my stomach. Never had them before.
sure, the listed side-effects are dire, but, this is in yer face horrifying - gastroparesis/ Ozempic digestion not 5min but 5 hrs!!= food rot/putrification... www.cnn.com /2023/07/25/health/weight-loss-diabetes-drugs-gastroparesis/index.html
'Wright had to be hospitalized for dehydration related to the vomiting, and that prompted her to push her doctors for more answers. A gastric-emptying study showed that she had gastroparesis. Her doctors put her on two more medications to try to help her manage her symptoms but didn’t take her off the Ozempic because they didn’t suspect it was contributing.
...vinstead of just vomiting the food she’d recently eaten, Wright noticed that she was throwing up food she’d eaten three or four days prior.'
They took blockbuster drugs for weight loss and diabetes. Now their stomachs are paralyzed
7/25/2023
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.”
Brenda Allen, 42, of Dallas feels the same way. Her doctor prescribed Wegovy for weight loss.
“And even now, being off the medication for almost a year, I’m still having a lot of problems,” Allen said. She said she was at urgent care recently after vomiting so much that she became dehydrated.
Emily Wright, 38, a teacher in Toronto, started taking Ozempic in 2018. Over a year, she said, she lost 80 pounds, which she’s been able to keep off. But Wright said she now vomits so frequently that she had to take a leave of absence from her job.
“I’ve almost been off Ozempic for a year, but I’m still not back to my normal,” Wright said.
The diabetes 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.
Allen doesn’t have a diagnosis for her stomach problems but said they started only after she was encouraged by her doctor to take Wegovy to lose weight. She is managing her ongoing nausea and vomiting with a medication called Zofran and prescription probiotics while she waits for more tests in October — the first available appointments she could get with specialists.
Doctors say that more cases like these are coming to light as the popularity of the drugs soared. The US Food and Drug Administration said it has received reports of people on the drugs experiencing stomach paralysis that sometimes has not resolved by the time it’s reported.
And last month, the American Society of Anesthesiologists warned that patients should stop these medications a week before surgery because they can increase the risk that people will regurgitate food during an operation, even if they’ve fasted as directed. Vomiting under anesthesia sometimes causes food and stomach acid to get into the lungs, which can cause pneumonia and other problems after surgery.
So far, extreme and unrelenting cases like these are believed to be rare, and they may be a result of the drug unmasking or worsening an existing “slow stomach.” Doctors say people can have a silent condition called delayed gastric emptying and not know it. There’s nothing on the drugs’ labels that specifically cautions that gastroparesis may occur.
In response to CNN’s request for comment, Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, pointed out that drugs in this class have been used for 15 years to treat diabetes and for eight years to treat obesity, and they have been extensively studied in the real world and in clinical trials.
“Gastrointestinal (GI) events are well-known side effects of the GLP-1 class. For semaglutide, the majority of GI side effects are mild to moderate in severity and of short duration. GLP-1’s are known to cause a delay in gastric emptying, as noted in the label of each of our GLP-1 RA medications. Symptoms of delayed gastric emptying, nausea and vomiting are listed as side effects,” the statement said...
On the other hand, this is how the drugs work, although not many doctors or patients understand this or the problems that may follow, he said.
Camilleri received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how one of the first GLP-1 agonists, a drug called liraglutide, affects stomach function.
He recruited 40 obese adults and randomly assigned them to take increasing doses of liraglutide or a placebo, which had no active ingredients.
After five weeks, he had people in the study eat a meal laced with a radioactive tracer so he could see how long food stayed in their stomachs. People taking liraglutide had dramatically slowed digestion compared with those on the placebo; it took about 70 minutes for half the food they ate to leave their stomachs, compared with just four minutes in the placebo group. And that was just the average delay: In some patients on liraglutide, the time it took for half the meal to leave their stomachs was 151 minutes, or more than two and a half hours.[..]