I work in litigation support for a firm that has been handling cases against Ozempic, Mounjaro, Trulicity- basically all GLP-1 RAs. The amount of calls I've gotten from people who have basically been given an absolute hellish life because they were put on this medication floors me.
People who vomit literally every day.
People who have had to undergo the removal of organs.
People who were diagnosed with Gastroparsesis and Blindness and a whole host of other physical ailments.
And why? Because doctors keep prescribing it as weight loss medication instead of diabetic medication like it was supposed to be used for.
I still get chills thinking about one call I had. The client passed away and the cause of death was ruled a case of Ozempic use. They were on it for two weeks. They lost twenty pounds.
That's worth it? That's fucking worth risking your life for? The life of others? it sickens me how society treats people who they deem overweight. That it feels like they'd rather see us dead than overweight.
And of course, this doesn't even take into account the fact that these medications were for diabetic use, and that people who are diabetic can barely fucking get the medication- medication they actually need to treat their diabetes. Because the self-proclaimed weight loss gurus of the world saw a miracle drug and decided that weight loss was the more important use of it.
I will never- ever recommend Ozempic or any drugs of its ilk for weight loss to anyone I know. The risk of death and the whole slew of other issues isn't worth it for the potential to lose ~50lbs and be forced to take the medication for the rest of your life or else the weight comes back effectively overnight.
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