3 Ozempic Dangers You Must Know (weight loss drug) 

Amazing... congrats!

yes some people can , but when you talk about clinical obese patient , the problem is that they can not , because they are insensitive to the insuline . Is another type of situation there.

That's great. Starting at 37 BMI feels like the brain is running the show and fighting against change the most.

There is no "sugar industry". It is all conglomerate agriculture, which includes High-fructose corn syrup.

@@AnnaPinguin Insulin shots will increase your body weight; it's important to do more walking and exercise along with the prescribed medications!

Facts 💯

I agree- they don’t know the struggle if they’ve never experienced the circumstance

🎉Congratulations!Sooo happy for you!!!🎉

Happy to hear, Rhonda!

Now for the liver cancer

@@Talletc I live in faith, not fear. What will be, will be. I've eliminated all the other health issues destined to kill me. We will all die of something.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing your story...

@@paulj.mancil7987 I wonder as you approach your goal or go beyond it, if you can eventually reduce that mg? I know there is 14mg, 7mg and 3mg. Which are you on now?

@@paulj.mancil7987 how long did it take you to lose the 19%?

Thanks for your support!

Wow amazing... congrats.

Did your insurance approve it? Or did you pay out of your pocket? And may I ask what type of doctor, I mean with what a specialty, prescribe meds for you?

@@SD-hs4bp I pay $24.99 as that is my copay. My primary doctor prescribed it. No pre authorization needed either. I know some insurances require a pre authorization

What is your current dose?

How did you lose the weight what did you along with the ozempic to lose it ?

Congrats! Thanks for sharing your story...

Why would you keep taking something that makes you have nausea and vomiting just to lose weight that’s just absurd

I have some insurance coverage but my portion is still $260 per month. I’m still doing this but I don’t think I will be able to sustain this financially. I’m other high cost meds too. Ugh!

@@gwenbennett8955 Food is either medicine, or poison. What are you eating that hurting you?

@@kimrobb1965 Because obesity is a huge health issue in itself. A little nausea while losing weight doesn't seem like that big of a deal if you lose 70 pounds.

Even lowering your weight by one pound weekly is very good as you probably won't regain your lost weight. Blessings!

Yeah, I discovered I’m not as hungover 😊

Amazing, congrats!

What now? Are you going to take it for ever,?

@@gerussialla if I was giving the opportunity, yes I will continue with this

​@@bryandavila4266 me also I'm type 2 diabetic so I will be on it forever.

I doubt you’ve been strict or consistent enough. Otherwise why use a drug

Thanks for sharing your experiences, 15% is huge... congrats.

Ozempic allows me a pause to reconsider my intake options. I also note an increase in oral enzyme production that seem to start the breakdown of my foods as I’m chewing. Anybody else notice that? ThT the salivary enzymes are working more while chewing?

I'm sorry you are going through that. I read an article that Wegovy is fully stocked. Perhaps your dr can prescribe that for you. I can't speak for the rest of us in the obese and morbidly obese category, but I'm trying to prevent type 2 diabetes and am talking with my dr about using a semiglutide.

@Sherry Coody wegovy is just for weight loss, it's not a diabetic med.

You do realise that type 2 diabetes is usually caused by poor nutrition so people who are taking it to lose weight are just a little bit less advanced than you? Your not more deserving because you are diabetic, just further along the same inevitable path

I spoke with my doctor about this, worried that if I used it for obesity I would be taking it away from someone who needed it. She told me that was misinformation, that there is no shortage of the drug and the reps and drug companies are not talking about any shortages. There may have been a supply chain issue at one time? What country are you in? Has it resolved. This drug is made under several different names, are they all out of stock where you are?

@@archerandthemouse America.

I’m interested in what your diet is currently? You mentioned protein every meal . How many meals a day?

@@bcamarillo5279 I eat breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner! Right now I’m consuming 1700-2000 calories a day. Breakfast I usually eat oatmeal with 2 scoops of protein in it, snack apples with peanut butter, lunch chicken, rice, veggies, dinner the same as lunch. It really depends on what I meal prepped on Sunday. I workout every other day, on the days I workout, I have an additional protein shake for recovery. I weight train 4 days of the week, I lift heavy and do 30/40 minutes of cardio afterwards. I do three proteins: Ground chicken, chicken breast, hamburger. For carbs I do jasmine rice, noodles, or sweet potato patties. Veggies, I steam broccoli or make green beans. I used to be a vegetarian, so I’ve only eaten meat again for about 2 years. Some things still hurt my stomach, and I can’t seem to have a taste for it. Which is probably why my blood work was so deficient. If I want cookies or chips or something I know I shouldn’t be eating, I don’t restrict myself. I do it within moderation. I hope this helps, I tried to fit it all in.

I’m so sorry you had to endure that as a kid and young adult. Sounds like you are back on track and off that merry go round of losing and gaining. Keep going for yourself - you deserve to be free and feel good again both physically and emotionally 😻🙏🏻

Thanks for sharing your experience, happy to hear it's working for you.

Wait- r u saying h lost 20+lbs in a month?? How is ur diet? That’s really good, congrats.

Great advise; that sweet tooth is a real killer!!!

Thats awesome Terri. I've just started on Wegovy so you have given me alot of hope to keep on going. I'm 5 lbs down in 5 days.

@@franceslivingston2701 Great!

Thanks Melissa!

I know someone who was on it and gained back like half the weight but not all. The dose was too high and the nausea unbearable. Worth it to even lose that much for her because she can move way more now. But have seen plenty of people on it in the media who stopped, particularly women, who gained all of it back plus some. Scary if you didnt cbange the habits. My diabetic sister is also on it but she she is not that overweight and lost a lot of weight which is all she talks about, not the sugar being normal lol she drinks and smokes, eats crap and drinks diet soda, so she is wasting this opportunity

Very proud of you I just lost 43 want too stop taking but so worried gaining back and more on that praying not

@@fanchonirber2933 Maybe you can go on a maintenance dose. I'm hoping to do that when I get to my goal weight.

@@christyallen-bess7048 I just don’t know what the long term effect of this medication will be so not sure what to do a Gastro doctor I cut his hair said in two years you’ll see all kinds of suing who knows I feel good right now

That's great.I I have had bariatric surgery 10 years ago and I did for nominal losing 93 lb. In the past two years I had gained back about 32. But I'm now on my way back down. Stopped a little and like I said before I'm on ozempic but it doesn't seem to be helping right now I think I need to move up or move on to something else. I'm now 149 pounds so only 21 up from my lowest but it's frustrating it's 62 years old

​@@fanchonirber2933 These GLP-1 medications have been around for 18 years and used primarily by diabetics. You'd think a GI dr would know this.

Bariatric surgery works for some patients but it fails for others!

thankful for your input regarding Trulicity as that is what my insurance has approved for weight loss. I am concerned that it won’t work as well as the popular Ozempic. Is it even worth trying? I am wondering if Trulicity is even safe to use for someone whose LabWork has shown conflicting results for pre-diabetes from different labs.

@@njk9989 Follow your instincts! The nose knows!

The same thing happened to my daughter. She also became septic.

That's really amazing losing more than 28.5 lbs. in 12 weeks!

@@PattySofferthe Semaglutide for sure caused it ?

​@@morganmullins8751 Not necessarily. Any time there is quick weight loss, gall stones can be triggered.

So is it similar to the clot shot ?

What dose are you on and how long did it you take to progress to that amount ?

I have always struggled with genetic weight gain, and a terrible addiction to sugar and carbs, the cravings are not normal they are emotional. I am always trying something, failing, giving up, and trying again. I love it when someone says, "Just eat more, eat better, move more". Yup, if it was that easy I wouldn't have struggled my whole life. I am a healthy eater, no soda, I don't eat much processed food, I am a good cook, no fast food, no coffee, limited dairy, don't' fry food. Still... I had an emergency hysterectomy for a hemorrhage and the battle went from difficult to almost impossible. Someone needs to do a deep dive on what happens when hormones you once had you no longer have much of. We can give a guy a three hour erection and grow his hair back but women, meh, trade them in for a younger model, or cut pieces off, add plastic pieces.

When you say middle dose, what amt is that?

I struggle with weight and take a different drug that worked at one time but no longer does. I wish I could do it on my own, I have tried all the things but a food addiction is an ugly thing. I am not going through menopause after hysterectomy and my gawd, every day I wake up a pound heavier, I stay in the same calorie range, I am a healthy eater but the only way to lose seems to literally fast for three days. Hormones are a powerful thing.

Hi Dan Ditto - thanks for sharing your experiences! Happy to hear.

Pretty remarkable. All prescription medications have side effects; just don't panic and make sure doctors have blood work done to monitor your efforts. Blessings.

@@bobboscarato1313 Thank you. 🙏💪😊

I was on Ozempic for a year. I was 220lbs . I lost 31lbs. I had side effects, fatigue, constipation, N/V, and then I passed out. The drug was stopped. I had a series of tests. A large mass was found 5x3x5 inches easier to imagine than cm. In addition, a cyst was seen on my pancreas. I am a Type II diabetic. I'm not saying this was caused by Ozempic . My A1c dropped to 6.3. Be smart and see an endocrinologist. My nurse Practicianer caught this when no one else did.😮

Thank you for your information. Good to know positives & negatives of taking it.

Same here with the whole cancer diagnosis. Just started ozempic, no side effects yet.

OZEMPIC can take awhile to work but keep at it!

Thanks for the support! - YB Team

Great to hear it's worked, Charlotte, thanks for sharing your experiences.

Glad you liked the video, Maranatha! -YOGABODY Team

Put miralax in your coffee in the morning! Also, fiber foods will help. Plenty of water as well. This is what’s helped me.

Mounjaro manages diabetes how could it cause diabetes? That makes no sense.

I hope this comment is somewhat helpful for you. I'm a physician myself and obese with a BMI and the high 30s maybe even low 40s at this point. Historically have been able to get on exercise routines for several months and really cut weight with aggressive dieting, daily exercise at the gym. At one point lost almost 60 lb but then gained it all back and ballooned another 70 lb to the mid 300s. Excellent genetics fortunately so perfect cholesterol, A1C, blood pressure. Nonetheless very uncomfortable, musculoskeletal pains, a couple back pain flares. Now with family and kids just no time at all for exercise, working nights, just a bad combination for health. Started on semaglitide about a month ago. I now realize there was no way I was going to do this without medication. It is definitely amazing. I'm not tanking my weight In fact my weight merely stabilized and maybe lost one or two pounds in the first month of very low dose. I'm increasing the dose but I'm noticing at 0.5 mg weekly that it is quite obvious that cravings to eat are completely eliminated and it is very easy to skip meals completely, eat smaller portions, I get full eating about a third of what I would eat normally. It completely changes your relationship with food. I hardly snack at all whereas before I would be ravenously snacking while preparing the meal for whatever time of day. Otherwise the drive was pretty much as strong as sex, maybe more so. It's real easy to be disciplined if your biology has you programmed like an obese person on semaglitide. It's really eye-opening. This must be what it's like to have a normal appetite. It's pretty wild. I guess what I'm saying is I don't think mindset is the issue. Your brain is issuing you overwhelming signals that you need to eat and you are starving even though you are obese. This medication fixes that and then you have the opportunity now to impose some discipline. Before that it's like a heroin addict for food. You would steal from your grandma to get a chicken sandwich lol. As far as potential risks. Certainly if they do emerge in post-marketing the risks will be low even if not zero. On the other hand the risks of continuing to be obese are quite including increased risk of cancers of all different types not to mention obviously progression into diabetes and complications thereof, coronary disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, orthopedic disease such as arthritis. I think it is unlikely that there's any massive increase in cancer that would eclipse the benefit of losing all the weight which carries a reduction in cancer risk. Finally, I don't see any problem philosophically and being on a medicine for life if it works. As human beings we can use our brilliance and effort to change our condition and mold nature into what we need it to be. Obviously this process isn't perfect but there are innumerable incredible breakthroughs that have changed the human condition for the better medical and otherwise. What's wrong with being on a medication for a long time or even life if it revolutionizes your life, helps you to live a healthier life potentially? Is it fundamentally different than a type 1 diabetic needing insulin for the rest of their life? In some ways perhaps but the point is the same. We can have better lives through chemistry and why shouldn't we? I do think if you go off the medicine likely you would just pile the weight back on but I don't think that's a consequence of the drug it's just that you would rebound back to your previous neuro and endocrine chemistry. Just some thoughts.

This is the first comment that I can relate 💯. This is exactly what I feel and why I’m holding back on accepting my Dr recommendations to be on this drug.

@@jdr03272 it makes sense what you say.

Tara if you are not a type 2 Diabetic then I wish you wouldn’t take it because I’ve learned that the supply of this medication is running out because everyone (including non diabetic) want it. It’s ridiculous because people like myself that need it in order to lose weight and lower our A1C to avoid serious diabetic complaints are having difficulty getting this medication because of people that don’t have diabetes wanting this drug. My doctor prescribed this and it took 2 months to get. Now I’m nervous about running out and needing to refill it…will I have to wait months because of non diabetic being selfish???? They need to only all diabetics access to this medication until they are able to supply more.

How did you finally get them to cover it please let me know

You didn’t say it took you how many months to loose 30lbs

@@bouchraoudghiri9020 about 6 months

@@olgasadler3770 my dr did alot of that. I had to try other meds first...

Great advise; my adult son does the cooking these days and I tell him serve me small portions but he tries to save trips to the kitchen!

Hello Laura - yes, many. www.LucasRockwoodShow.com you'll find a search there if you type in 'hormones' you'll find a number of shows.

Wow, I have the same diagnoses as you! Also taking levothyroxine for hypothyroidism and metformin for pre diabetes. Plus just started Ozempic for weight loss this week. Would you recommend still taking metformin on top of the Ozempic? I wasn't sure whether to keep taking it.

@@MAYBEE90 I was prescribed them at the same appointment. I take both. If your doctor says to take them, I’d continue to do so.

I'm 86 and my doctor told me to quit Metformin; I still take it at 1/2 dosage. I've been taking Ozempic for about 4 years; 2 years ago I started on 1 mg. and it took about six month before I lost 12 lbs. I don't do much exercising other that walk. All sugars are real bad. Home cooking is definitely better.-

THRSE DRUGS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A VERY LONG TIME. SOME THING THIS IS NEW , IT IS NOT. IT IS JUST GETTING RAVES AS OF LATE.

@@janecoe9407 until recently, NO ONE WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HELP ME AND I WAS EATING A 500 CALORIE DIET PER MY DOCTOR’S ORDERS AND NOT LOSING A GODDAMN THING. So, for me, this is new. And helpful.

Congrats, that's amazing...

The mushroom? I've drank a bunch as tea, can't say I noticed anything but I like the taste;)

@@YOGABODY.Official yes, the mushroom. Thanks for your statement.

My husband has been using Ozempic for over 2 years for his diabetes. He has lost around 15 lbs but you can put. It back on real fast.

I forgot to tell you I've lost 55 pounds.

Wow... amazing, Debbie!

Hope it goes well, Mandy!

Congrats.... 43 pounds is amazing.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Stephanie. Hope you're feeling better now.

Hi Stephanie I had the same experience with ozempic . And then my physician told me it’s not for everyone. Are you doing anything else for weight loss?

@@sunayana641 I don’t even know which way to go now. I was taking it for diabetes most importantly.

I lost some sense of taste, things I loved just didn't taste as good afyer I stopped the ozempic. I also found I was having more headaches. I felt run down after using it too, still don't seem to be back to normal, but slowly my taste seems to be returning. Brst wishes to you.

Sounds like Covid

I lasted 5 weeks on it, daily nausea and vomitting. My taste has definitely been altered, but it is very slowly improving.

Hello Peggy - hope it goes well! If you're considering increasing strength training, just start slowly and ease into it...

Thanks for sharing your experiences, Loulou. Hope you're feeling better.

The reality is that we react to medication in different ways.- Blessings.

Hope you find a solution, Michelle!

Stick with Ozempic; after I was prescribed the 1 mg. dose I started losing weight!

My blood sugars went high and was put on 1.5 dose and was so ill. I don't need to loose weight, in fact I was told not too lose any more weight. I lost it over the years with diabetic diet. I , however was so sick on the higher dose I didn't want to eat at all and didn't. Didn't lose weight on it because I've none to lose but hopefully it will help my non alcoholic fatty liver.

@@lorrainebrady4814 Ozempic is .25; .50; 1 mg. 2 mg. only. You mention 1.5 mg. ???

Thanks for the suggestion!

It's also in my bio identical hormone replacement pellets.

Congrats, that's amazing.

Wish you success, Bonnie!

Where I can found it please

A1C at 6 is amazing!

You're on the right track; don't despair. It takes a bit of time so get results!

@@bobboscarato1313 I'm worried about phasing out diabetic drugs like glimepiride, metformin and pioglitazone. I don't think you can just stop them cold turkey and start ozempic

@@emilystevens6335 Yes you can and I did and told my doctor and he agreed with me!

@@bobboscarato1313 It seems it doesn't have much effect on blood sugar, because my boyfriend has been taking it for about 8 months, lost a lot of weight, but still taking it, and HE IS NOT diabetic and never has been. I was worried his sugar would get to low.

Doesn’t seem like you watched the video… I essentially said exactly what you just commented.

@@YOGABODY.Official you are right. I did not and watched more of it

I’m afraid that taking this drug for 5 months may be the reason I may have to get a hysterectomy. I am 50 and am officially and medically in menopause. I have been taking HMT for the past year and a half. I NEVER had any type of problems or issues throughout my life with fibroids or painful periods. Once I started perimenopause, I had no choice but to get on Prempro. The hot flashes and other side effects, including weight gain was just miserable. The Prempro worked great, I am healthy and have been fortunate enough to not have any severe issues. 6 weeks after starting Ozempic, I came down with Shingles. I know it can happen at any age but I just was floored it happened. I had to take 3 different antiviral medications because it was hanging on and not improving. I also got put on Gabapentin and Xanax for my anxiety and to just help me rest. Now, out of nowhere I started experiencing vaginal bleeding. I went and had ultrasounds and my ovaries are fine and normal and I don’t have any cysts. So common sense would indicate that I need a blood work up to see what my thyroid levels are and hormone levels. Instead, my doctor just wants to go straight to surgery. I’m wondering if the Semaglutide has caused my HRT to not work properly and my estrogen is out of whack. There’s no doubt it’s a side effect of being on it.