The miracle drug is to lose weight or stop balding. The celeb endorsements were free. A disgustingly perfect storm for the people who are prescribed and necessitate this drug. :(
This trend infuriates me. My mum was recently diagnosed with diabetes, and due to her blood pressure medications and other factors, her doctor wanted to move her to Ozempic, because the diabetes medication she had her on, wasn't working very well. Unfortunately, the shortage, due to this vain stupidity, has made that nearly impossible. Thankfully, the last ditch effort of removing hydrochlorothiazide (because she consumes more than enough water for the blood pressure meds) seems to have mitigated the problem. That being said, that's not the case for everyone who very seriously needs this medication. Just rage inducing behaviour from entitled assholes.
There are more glutides (GLP-1 agonists) and hydrochlorothiazide is a bad choice for people with DM. Indapamide is the drug of choice. I would expect little-regulated healthcare in US to work exactly this way.
@@marekblaha7834 She had been on hydrochlorothiazide for many, many years, because it's pretty common place to prescribe it alongside the blood pressure meds she's on. When her diabetes medication, which she only just started taking a year ago when she received the diagnosis, wasn't working as intended, the doctor pulled it in an attempt to avoid having to switch diabetes meds.
@@SarahNova as a person with disordered eating? You are SO WRONG. I have criminal levels of trauma about getting my plate clean. Even if I'm full. Or sick. Or throwing up. And also having been starvedwhen i oculdnt manage which means I only ever get hungry at night, almost never at meals, where I feel sick all the time. But good lord if I don't eat every bite even if I'm suffering. So please stop pretending you get this. It is so important to know for people who eat on a full, bloated feeling even when they feel gross about it will not see a change in their disordered eating weight gain.
@@DembaiVT That’s a different issue altogether. I’ve been on wegovy which is the exact same thing as ozempic, so I know exactly what I’m talking about. It makes you not want to eat as much.
@@DembaiVTand this is trauma dumping as the commenter was clearly just referring to the majority population that doesn’t have an eating disorder. The goal of the drug for this use is to stop your food cravings and feelings of hunger because of your blood sugar levels. Getting pressed about the use case for the medicine is wild, I recommend you speak to your therapist and not RU-vid comments.
This is like people who park in handicap spaces are people using the rolling cart and don't need it. I get so frustrated that people don't care about other people who need the service provided to handicap individuals.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but diabetic patients are getting the drug. It's not just only weight loss people are getting it and none of the diabetic people are getting it. And also... diabetic patients have other drugs too. Just saying.
As someone in desperate need of losing nearly 300lbs. I’m so glad I have access to ozempic. The side effect of being as big as I am is so much worse than the side effects of ozempic.
It can help, but the best thing you can do for yourself is not a diet or drug but a lifestyle change. There are many videos on youtube on how to find and eat the right foods. You can find specific ones say if you need to eat healthy on a budget. You can do it, it’ll make you so much happier and healthier in the long run.
@@april_sadly not everyone can make lifestyle changes. It’s a privilege to be in a situation where you can just change your lifestyle. Not saying that it isn’t hard no matter what but for some people there just isn’t many options especially with how the economy is right now. Due to my living conditions and other health problems I couldn’t. That’s where medicines like this come in handy. They can help jumpstart progress. For me ozempic got me moving again and feeling better so that I could start making steps towards lifestyle changes. I’m still very much in a situation where I don’t have much choice but I can atleast see the light at the end of the tunnel.
you're one of the people who may genuinely need the drug. it should be up to drs to decide when it's appropriate, not just for anyone to buy it on a whim.
I work in a pharmacy and the shortage is real. We can't get certain strengths of ozempic for weeks because the manufacturers and the distributors just can't keep up. Then I have to tell someone who needs it that I can't order it from any of our suppliers and what their limited options are until we can get it again.
My pharmacy had dozens of PTs waiting for weeks to get their Ozempic. We've had backorders of Mounjaro and Trulicity. It's a Medicaid and 340B only pharmacy too so a lot of them are really poor and don't have the means to shop around at other retail pharmacies. They depend on us to get their drugs and have them delivered to them. Not to judge anyone who feels like they need to take a drug off-label to loss weight or anything else, but it is pretty irritating when a drug becomes a trend that causes shortages that impact patients who might need it more.
@@Martinroadsguy Same here for Mounjaro and Trulicity. The amoxicillin suspension backorder that happened a bit ago was a nightmare. The pharmacy I work at is across the street from an urgent care, so lots of parents coming in with sick kids and we had to wait for the doctor to send an alternative.
You may know this already but wegovy is the exact same drug in a different dosage specifically marketed for obesity. I only mention this because if ozempic is out of stock perhaps wegovy is available. I don’t know the practicality of asking the doctor to try a prescription for that in an emergency but maybe it’s helpful information.
Fun fact: this medication slows gastric emptying and has a half-life of like 7 days... so surgeries have had to extend the amount of time people are not allowed to eat before procedures up to 3 days... because when you eat food, it stays in your stomach longer, and having food in your stomach during surgery greatly increases the risk that you will vomit into your lungs and die
@@Ravelowskyit used to be around 500-600 I think, but due to the misuse of it, it reached those high prices so you gotta pray your insurance will cover it and dont make you jump through hurdles even if they approved it before it became popularized
My dad is a diabetic and was prescribed something like ozempic and he hasn’t been able to take it because no pharmacy has it. It’s terrible that people are taking away meds from people who actually need it just to go down a size.
My dad is a pharmacist, and he cannot fill many Ozempic prescriptions for diabetes because everyone is taking it for weight loss. He has to stock up every time it becomes available because people want it for reasons that aren't as medically important
Yeah, I couldn’t get it for about two months because of this and I needed it for my chronic condition (DM2/NIDDM). But it really helped lower my A1c and I dropped some pounds.
Thank you for this. I take it due to my pcos even though I’m not diabetic but have been on the verge many times. It’s really made a difference in my life and helped me jump start better lifestyle habits yet I’m so self conscious talking about it because of people misusing it and misinformation being put out about it.
I think more important to bring up is the massive loss of muscle mass which can't be avoided which massively slows your metabolism and now you have to eat even less to maintain the lower weight than you woukd otherwise. This huge deop in muscle mass increases your chances of getting osteoporosis big time, increases chances of cancer, makes healing take longer, increases risk and damage done by injuries, decreases independance and just generally screws up your life. Also, the muscle mass doesn't come back when you stop so you really just bone yourself if you take this just to shed a few kg. To reverse the damage takes a long time, a lot of weights lifted and a lot of dietary management to make sure you can gain muscke without gaining fat and all just so that you dont break your hip at age 52 then have it unable to heal properly and having you wheelchair bound.
Glp-1 receptor agonists are not a new thing, like the main line of treatment for DMT2 is literally a inductor for GLP (which, surprisingly, is the main endogenic agonist for GLP receptors). What happened that made people discover hematic glucose lowering level drugs recently?
I can't lie. I immediately said no and swiped away when I heard you start singing. But something made me go back, and well... that was both fun, informative, and soothing? My man, 11/10.
Hey, that's exactly the thing my brother uses to loose weight! His doctor said it would be enaugh to just use it daily and he wouldn't need to do sport (he weights over 100kg and can't do sport). Nice to know what it was meant to be for. I'll show hom this video as soon as he gets home
My parents have both been on ozempic for a while now and during the shortage they both had to ration their pens. It’s crazy how a drug used to treat a chronic condition became a “trendy” drug for people to become skinny.
It’s crazy that people put their own desire losing weight without effort over the needs of diabetes patients. My mom is diabetic and we drove around 3 hours last week to get her a dose of her ozempic.
If I assume correctly, once you stop taking it, the weight not only comes back, but you end up even more overweight. It's better to find other options than drugs that you must take continuously.
The drug doesn't directly cause weight loss. Instead, it suppresses appetite, decreasing the desire to eat a lot. It wouldn't necessarily help cases where people eat when they're not hungry (like stress eating). When someone taking it stops, their appetite returns to normal, leading them to eat as much as they were before, if not more because they aren't used to being hungry. So yes, the weight would likely come back, unless they have enough will to not increase their food intake after quitting.
Adding to what @Jemma M said, when you've reached a peak weight, your body is designed to want to stay there. So if you lose 50 lbs, your body's lizard brain panics and wants to get it back (life-saving calories for the winter). It takes A FULL YEAR of maintaining a stable body weight for the lizard brain to realize this isn't so bad and we can stay here. Just another little-known reason why diets fail when they aren't lifestyle changes.
@@Melodycanales613 lizard brain is just a fun name for the amygdala, which the part of your brain responsible for self preservation. It learns what keeps you safe, and it responsible for your reflexes, fight-or-flight or other learned ways to keep you safe and alive. Basically, the lizard brain is when you instinctively do to survive without conscious thought. Though weight retention is more complex than that, and probably not dependent on the same part of the brain, it's the same principle - you body is hardwired to put on fat for self preservation, and if you've successfully achieved huge storage deposits then lose it your body desperately want to return to that. It can take a full year for your body to learn a new acceptable threshold. It's your body's unconscious self-preservation system, holdover from our primordial origins, hence "lizard brain."
That's not exclusive to this drug. When you are obese and u lose weight on a suppressant or calorie restrictive diet and u stop. You gain wait back. There is no mystery to this.
Bad news I'm afraid. In America money is morally correct. So if you have the money. You have more rights to medications like this for your vanity. I hope we brake away from corporate greed and corporate control
It shocked me when I found out that people were using ozempic to lose weight. My dad uses it for medical reasons so in my mind it’s always just been something that I don’t ever want to have to take
My mom works in pharmaceuticals and the thing about Ozempic for weight loss is it essentially makes you nauseous, so you don't want to eat, so you lose weight. The problem then is that at some point you just get used to being nauseous all the time, so your hunger starts again, and you gain weight again. I understand people with BED and such would benefit from a medication that lowers appetite, but the fact that the people who need it, and use the medication for what it's designed for can't use it is awful and needs to be fixed.
? It shouldn't be advertised to the public but also a random RU-vidr shouldn't be saying if it is or isn't worth taking over a proper consultation by a medical professional. Am I missing something?
My mother was prescribed this for her diabetes and she had to stop taking it because she said life isn't worth living if she has to deal with the side effects. She was so sickly on ozempic that she basically just sat in her chair all day because moving at all would make her want to vomit.
I learned from a video somewhere that K-Pop industry uses something similar to control the weight of their singers. Some even abuse it to the point that it causes health issues.
Protein stays in you stomach longer and should keep you from feeling hungry for longer. I have a protein shake in the morning, just protein powder and water, and I'm not hungry by lunch. Though I eat lunch regardless because I would be too far below my maintenance if I didn't.
as someone who was morbidly obese and has been taking ozempic for 6 months through a hospital run weight loss clinic, this medication has literally saved me from becoming a diabetic. i put on weight due to being, in layman's terms, a lab rat for a psychiatrist who placed me on a trial mood stabilizer at age 12 that skyrocketed my weight, and i was never able to get it off. this helped me lose 50 pounds in 6 months, but let me tell you, the side effects are NOT worth it for anyone who just needs to lose a little bit. the nausea, vomiting, constipation, and insane amount of abdominal pain is nearly unbearable and i am pretty much always on zofran and laxatives. it is not fun, and it is not worth it for your vanity. it should only be taken if medically necessary.
And no mention of it causing gastroparesis. There is a reason there are class action lawsuits right now. Several diabetics I know have been seriously harmed by this medication.
I'm very glad you posted this. Nobody knows what the long-term side effects of using Ozempic for weight loss are. It's for people with Type 2 Diabetes PERIOD!!! Now they can't even get it because of people wanting to be like Hollywood stars. The vanity is Sickening!! Hey, if you want to lose weight cut back on how much you eat!! That is how you do it. Also, the ads for Ozempic regarding weight loss should be banned like those for smoking.
I haven't taken Mounjaro which is similar to Osampec in over 2 weeks now...not because I don't need it but because it's on backorder everywhere in my area. I contacted multiple pharmacies. I had the same problem with Trulicity. All 3 of these medications are dangerously hard to find.
It's horrible that celebrities joke and use it while people with actual life threatening conditions like me struggle to source it because it's constantly out of stock for the wrong reasons
My sister is overwhelmed by health problems after her pregnancy and she isn’t sure if she should take ozempic but she has heart problems as well, so she really can’t afford to become diabetic at all. I just want more information and less gossip. I’m starting like three new meds and five new supplements this week and I’m so tired of it. If ozempic can help us it’s a miracle, but the doctors don’t want to even talk to me about it because it’s a fad
Just curious why would she need it? It’s not a medication for people without diabetes. If it’s for weight loss, Clinical trails showed a weigh loss of 9-12 lbs on average in a 56 week period, so nothing major. I’ve been taking it for 6 years, I can’t believe how hyped it is, it’s not all that good on its own, people still need to diet and exercise for blood sugar lowering or weight loss, Another thing no one mentions is your body seems to adapt to it after a few months and the effects wear off. He also didn’t mention cancer is a side effect.
@@Hdjdnsjnd Thyroid cancer. A rare type. In rats, inconclusive data for humans. I've known people who are pre diabetic who take this drug who are having severe health problems because of their weight. This drug does work for some. Unfortunately, there's not enough. That is the issue. Let people do as they wish, as long as there are no consequences for those who need it. Some people do need it, people who are 'pre diabetic'. I think 'vanity' is an extremely simplified and cold term to describe people who've been abused by society and the people around them to 'look more beautiful'. I've also known some people who are anorexic, and yeah, skinny isn't necessarily healthy either. It's this hopelessness and fear that even though you try to diet you always feel extremely hungry and deeply unhappy, but when you eat to keep up with what your body is telling you, the weight just comes back. Like, I won't be taking Ozempic because of the shortage, and I think what you're saying has validity as someone who has taken it long term, but I understand the desire to not want to be hungry all the time, or to be able to move and have it not be so hard on the knees, or to be able to have a healthier heart. I get it. I also want that. The world is a busy place, and it's hard to live in- some people barely have time to think about themselves as they think about 100 different things. Be kind.
I didn’t even know this was a hot thing. I was prescribed it because my A1C was high. So it was Ozempic and Another medicine. You still have to eat right. I’m dreading taking it again but it’s necessary to avoid insulin.
There's also the whole weight-gain weight-loss vicious cycle which is actually more harmful to your body than actually being obese. Ozempic, or Wegovy (weight-loss trademark), is not gonna keep the weight off once you stop it, as mentioned in the video, so you're definitely gonna end up in that weight gain weight loss cycle. If you wanna lose weight, for health benefits or even if it's just vanity (which is extremely valid and 100% your right), it's better to change lifestyle habits so you can keep the weight off.
I have PCOS, hypothyroidism, and am insulin resistant so I would probably qualify for this medication but imo I'd rather be fat than take it if it means I'd be taking away from someone who's LIFE literally depends on it.
I was prescribed this for weight loss, and it does not make you feel full, it makes you feel sick like your on the verge of vomiting so you can’t eat because you swear you’ll throw up. But not full
