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Thank you for being the first person I’ve seen in over a year who took the time to understand the full picture of this topic. 99% of the people just make a quick quip based on something other clueless persons quip.
Hey Walmart! Ozempic is not the reason people are buying less food. People are buying less food because inflation is insane and we are barely surviving 🙄
I consider buying groceries a luxury nowadays. I've NEVER had to count cents to see if I could afford dinner, or if it will be another day with just one meal. It's scary.
When my husband died, I lost weight. I heard a lot of, “Have you lost weight?”, “You look great!” These are people that knew my husband died. I wanted to respond, YES turns out grief is great for weight loss!! Really? Did they think I was dieting and exercising so I could look great? No, I was barely surviving! My children gave me a purpose to get out of bed. Not all weight loss is due to healthy activity. Sometimes it’s grief, cancer, or other illness, mental health issues and so much more. Never comment on another person’s weight. It really is none of your business.
Same thing happened to my dad and aunt, their dad died and they lost a significant amount of weight and people were praising them for it and it was just really awkward. I hope you’re doing better now though.
Oh my lord I lost my sister last year and lost a tonne of weight - was incredibly weak, light headed, bruising easily, and still got the “wow you look amazing!” I’ve slowly gained most of that weight back, with physical training and increasingly larger food portions, and thank god I’m recovering.
A friend of mine was in a similar position. Her co-workers showered her with compliments on her weight loss when she was back from her bereavement leave. She had no energy to play nice and just replied "thanks, my SO died and I haven't been eating for 2 weeks", shut them right up. I hope you're doing as well as you can be, stay strong.
Same thing happened to me when i lost my husband...one of my accountances said how great i looked, and ask how did i do it. I just told her: you DON'T want to loose weight in that way
The same thing happened to my mom after my dad passed away. She has always been weight conscious and very active, someone who would consider “skinny” a complement, but the weight loss she went through while grieving my dad was not normal and she knew that. She would come home from outings with friends and complain about how all her friends wouldn’t leave her alone about how skinny she is, knowing that my dad died and still asking “what do you do!” or trying to pressure her to eat more because she’d gotten “so skinny!”. It hurt to watch her go through that, because it hurt her to have to refrain from saying “well, my husband died”. She wasn’t feeling hunger because she was SAD, and she was either being praised for it or criticized in that vulnerable time for her. I will always hold my tongue when I comment on people’s weight. You just never know what they could be going through.
I had an autoimmune disease undiagnosed for years. When I finally received treatment, I actually gained weight (no meds, body was just finally getting nutrients and holding onto them). People often expressed how they felt bad for me for gaining weight and their whole attitude toward me was like "oh such a shame". It's crazy becauze at that time I was the healthiest, highest energy, and happiest for the first time in literal years. Everyone's opinions about my weight created such a dark stain on what should have been such a happy time.
Same here! I've always been overweight, but my undiagnosed autoimmune disorder made me lose 70 pounds within a few months. Doctors didn't treat it seriously because I wasn't under a typical weight, and people complimented me on losing so much weight despite me literally wasting away from malnutrition lol.
Imagine having the blithe entitled arrogance to just pop whatever pills or take whatever shots your 'anti aging doctor' prescribes to the point you don't even fucking know youre on the new craze. Can't fathom.
My mom lost 15 pounds because she lost her appetite during a depressive period. People commenting on how “good she looked,” furthered her depression because the comments didn’t align with how she “felt.” That’s why you shouldn’t comment on someone’s body or changes in their body (whether it’s an increase or decrease), because you don’t know what someone is going through.
exactly! My grandmother was a wonderful woman but she'd 'compliment' and encourage my mom to "keep going!" when she lost a lot of weight. My mom had an eating disorder, her hair and teeth were falling out but hey she was thin so woo!! You go girl!! 😩 awful.
Same happened to my husband. PTSD, anxiety, depression, and ADHD all combined to months of being unable to eat because anxiety was causing him to vomit constantly. He lost a LOT of weight, and everyone was commenting on how good he looked. Yet he'd never been weaker in body. There's zero reason to comment on anyone's body. If you have to compliment someone, complement a piece of clothing, hair style or color, or glasses, but not their bodies.
Truly. I've gained a lot of weight because of a medication and I'm slowly losing it back. I've got so many comments and congratulations for losing weight. And it honestly makes me feel shit because it just brings attention to all the weight I've gained and how I'm far away from how I used to be and how shitty it was to change so much without having any control over it. I'm literally having the same routine that I used to have it did not change, I just changed medication. If you congratulate me there's such a huge implication you think I somehow was failing at something before and you just didn't say anything for those months I was gaining the weight. And I'm supposed to feel good about that ?
This. You don't know if someone maybe has ED and this will encourage them further, or is going through a bad time in their life in general, or even just learned they're going through a disease (diabetes and cancer both have sudden weight loss as one of the symptoms).
My dad is diabetic, and I can tell you that when this was a huge trend last year, he had to PORTION OUT what he had left of his medication because he wasn't able to get any. This is dangerous and selfish, leave Ozempic for the diabetics and people who need it please.
With my mom as well, the stock was still really sparse here even by christmas. I don't know how the stock is now, but my mom at one point spaced out her own medicine
My dad was prescribed ozempic for his diabetes, and when he mentioned it to me my heart literally sank. He’s already being told he might have to ration what he has because of the shortage. This is horrible and ridiculous-why do people who are not only a healthy weight, but people who are UNDERWEIGHT think they have a right to be taking this away from the people who actually need it.
this is a lie. the pharma companies struggle with the production of the needles/applicators, the actual drug is abundant. the underweight people you are speaking of who are getting it are going to health spas, plastic surgeons, etc, and getting the injections are getting a compounded version-not actual branded ozempic from the pharma companies so they aren't affecting the shortage. see if your dad's insurance will cover compounded drugs and go to a compound pharmacy, he may have to pay out of pocket as lots of compound pharmacies dont take insurance or insurance needs you to pay upfront. but if you have HSA/FSA you can utilize this to help with the cost. it is extremely hard for people who don't have diabetes to get prescribed the drug and even if they are their insurance wont cover it unless you've been prediabetic and have tests to prove that. wegovy is the weightloss version people can be prescribed which insurance does not cover either. this is all propaganda by pharmaceutical companies so they aren't blamed for delays.
same thing happened to my mom. she got diagnosed shortly after the craze started and the medicine has been treating her symptoms but she got prescribed the medicine RIGHT before shortages started:(
All these celebrities who can afford 1) a personal trainer and a gym at home 2)a nutritionist who will put together a healthy menu for them and a chef who cook for them 3)healthy, organic food and a walk on their 50km of land on their own are laughing in the faces of people who need this medicine every day. What disgusting, empathy-less people. They don't even deserve a shred of respect.
They can also afford the mental healthcare a lot of people need to treat EDs and the other conditions that often lead to those EDs that can lead to overeating and obesity .
@@MomeGnome some people genuinely do but that wasn’t the point they were trying to make anyway. They were just expressing that out of all of the options celebrities have available to them that aren’t available to the general population they choose to utilize a drug that many people genuinely need for genuine health issues such as diabetes. Everyone is different, their bodies function differently and what works for one person isn’t going to work for every single other person. What has worked for you and people you know isn’t going to work for everyone.
@@MomeGnomeyes, but healthy food can be expensive. gyms cost money. you need time to put together healthy meals, and time to work out. time that a lot of people spend working, to earn money that is barely enough to survive. eating disorders need specialists to help recover. medical issues need doctors and medication to help treat it.
@@greenginger6668as someone with that ED, even with therapy (which I have) it is a LOT easier to deal with the root causes whe. you're not dealing with the physical discomfort and shame/anguish that comes after a binge episode. Off label uses should never be prioritized over it for diabetics of course and they should be aware of this. And the way they talk about it is...still gross. I'm not rich like a celebrity but privileged to be able to afford the therapy and meds. That privilege helps 1000x but there are real barriers still there.
@@kufresh1988I know right?! It’s so annoying she pretends to be this nice and supportive person, but she isn’t. She is a monster like any other talk show host.
I work in a pharmacy and I had a patient nearly in tears the other day when I called them to say we FINALLY got a box of Wegovy 7.5 in our shipment. What's even more sad is that, yes I may have made one persons month that much easier, I had dozens of other phone calls telling others they are going to go without. Sometimes it feels like playing god and it's an awful feeling.
@@sus4nahwhat did people do before insulin? Why even think about this at all? the drug exists because people need it. New drugs are always being made because theres always somewhere out there who could need them. This may be a shock to you, but life expectancy is something the human race has tried to improve for as long as we have existed
@@windows5096 it's so crazy that people try to act like you don't need something because people existed before it existed. like yeah people existed before we had all kinds of medications. they weren't stronger and better than us they just suffered and died younger than us
@@elementohsix I never mentioned anything about the patient needing it for one reason or the other. The point is that the demand is so high that shipments are few and far between, making my position in the healthcare field feel terrible. I'm either looked at as a saint or someone not working "hard enough" to get people the medication they are looking for.
It’s crazy that these celebrities have access to personal trainers & chefs to prepare the most nutritious meals yet chose Ozempic. Another dangerous fad
To lose ten pounds of so-called vanity fat. These people are already underweight. It's scary how much our perceptions are warped of what is a normal regular human body. Looking back at 2005 when I was a teenager, what we considered chubby was basically any amount of body fat that wasn't in the breasts
I had a horrible pregnancy where I lost 100lbs and more than half of my tooth enamel. Three days after my c-section, I was riding the elevator up to the NICU and two women, well intentioned, asked me who had a baby in my family. They were shocked when I said it was me and asked where my stomach was and told me I looked great. I didn't realize until I looked at the other new moms that they all had large stomachs still. People would tell me that I was so lucky to have lost so much weight, despite me being the sickest and weakest I've ever been with a premature newborn in the ICU. I never went into details with anyone, though.
This reminds me of when people focus too much on a baby's gender and appearance when it's their health that's most important. You take health for granted while it's good and worry about the wrong things.
I’m so sorry you dealt with that, I hope you’ve been able to regain health ❤️ I also hope you’re not experiencing too much pain and issues with your teeth.
My dad watched Dr. Oz religiously and would yell at me to get on a scale growing up, stare at me and my brother uncomfortably while watching us eat, insult our bodies regularly, and he saw Dr. Oz say something about how the healthy measurement for a woman's waist was 24 inches and for men was 27 inches, and he measured both mine and my brothers high school bodies as if we already weren't insecure. I wish more people would speak on the harm Dr. Oz caused bc I wouldn't be shocked if other people's parents became obsessed with their kid's weights as a result of that man.
jfc I only had a 24" waist when I was told I was lucky not to have any organ damage because I was medically classed as emaciated. I am so sorry those insane standards were put on y'all. Dr. Oz has gotten away with far too much bs
My dad measured us every three months and kept growth charts. He would measure subcutaneous fat deposits when he hugged us to estimate body fat composition.
I'm very sorry you went through that. I wish you lots of healing. Parents can really mess us up. Just remember to try to have understanding for why he was the way he was and not hold resentment and then it takes the toxicity off of you. My father had mental illness and I get it now because of how his mother was. It wasn't ok, I just have more of an understanding. You release that bad energy. It doesn't mean it was ok, ect. It just means you no longer let it steal your joy. You deserve peace and contentment in your adulthood and to not let anyone steal that from you. The peace that you didn't get growing up❤
It’s really horrifying to see how generations can be affected by mentalities like this. I remember growing up (and even now) I would eat a lot because my metabolism was higher than others in my family. I used to get scolded often and told I’d get fat for it. Later on, when I was battling with depression as a teenager, I would be told that I’d become anorexic and be “poked with needles” at the hospital if I didn’t eat. I’m glad that these opinions didn’t radically alter my own health habits, but I feel tremendously for those who grew up with parents like this. I’m really hoping you and your brother are doing better now.
I think the biggest thing that clued me into just how LITTLE the “it’s unhealthy!!” crowd cares about health was when i learnt about the actual health risks of different bmi categories: “obese” comes with a lot of risk, but “overweight” only comes with SLIGHTLY more risk than “healthy.” And “underweight” comes with just about as much risk as “obese” - yet you NEVER see the same energy directed toward underweight-ness. And when you consider the fact that the lines between these categories are drawn arbitrarily, and every body is different, even someone whose bmi is “healthy” could be at a high risk for negative health outcomes. Around that time I’d just unintentionally lost a lot of weight due to health issues-my bmi was “healthy” (at the lower end), but I couldn’t walk to and from class without feeling like I was going to pass out. It was so frustrating when relatives would tell me I looked good or healthy, because I really WASN’T. And it was so validating when my mom told me that a friend of hers thought I looked thin and asked if I was ok. All of this is to say: weight ≠ health, and most of our societal preconceived notions about what “healthy” weight is are just wrong.
Also look into the “paradox of obesity” there is a lot of convoluted evidence on obesity that ppl discredit bc they want to hold on so tightly to the belief that all fat ppl are unhealthy. Nutrition science is relatively new compared to other science and we are learning everyday.
My experience with being the low end of "healthy" was very similar! I had a dizzy spell at least once a day. I'd try to go grocery shopping and have to give up and go sit in the car while my friend shopped for me. I'd choose to be in the overweight category every single day over feeling like that
@@Geo-w4z exactly! i've been a little "overweight" before too, and i was infinitely healthier at that point than i was at the lower end of "healthy." these distinctions are really arbitrary and the importance we place on them can be pretty harmful
I’m a pharmacist. We have faced shortages of ozempic as extreme as the methylphenidate shortage. Many of my patients have had to go without, ration or switch to alternatives that means they have to begin their treatment plan from the beginning. Even the alternatives are beginning to go out of stock (trulicity/victoza, rybelsus etc) It’s absolutely disgusting watching these Hollywood elites discuss using these medications off-handedly as if them wanting to be slightly skinnier is more of a priority than patients who just want to live normal healthy lives. These people make me sick. Eat the rich.
They can’t control if they have the money to buy what’s being sold. The “rich fat people” are simply players in a game that someone else made the rules for.
As a pharmacy technician, I can one hundred percent confirm this. The amphetamine shortage, as annoying as it has been, is one thing, but this Ozempic/weight loss craze is on a whole other level of insane. My pharmacy has been able to get sparce amounts of it from our wholesaler for the past year now, and the supply fluctuates like the tides. Even though we've been able to get more than most pharmacies, we still have to put people on "weight" lists because of how insane the demand is. Insulin is getting pretty bad now to, since the federal government capped the price of insulin we've been having trouble getting our regular supply of insulin in stock, and it's absolutely horrendous what big pharma has been up to lately.
@@leahleon_ you’re an idiot. People are capable of being responsible and consuming ethically. Sounds like YOU also need to be educated if you think grown ass adults can’t hold off on a stupid weight loss craze that leaves diabetic patients without vital medication
I'm so glad you commented that, I've been freaking out about how fucking good the look is. But I don't want to derail the conversation lmao. Like wow I feel blessed.
"Youre not really celebrating their *health*, you're just glorifying their *image* because it happened to change to fit into your standard." Damn. This hit deep.
That is the mindset I had to reckon with when I was literally dying from anorexia. It's what made me realize that I was not going to stop. scary to see it being normalized and shared as a good thing
@@ProbablyBees that an interesting way to take it! Everyone is different I suppose. I understood it as “you shouldn’t look for others to define your ideal body because your body is unique” which has a very positive meaning that you shouldn’t compare yourself to others, as it only leads to false perceptions of yourself. in my opinion. How does that register as negative to you in your opinion if you don’t mind explaining?
I'm a chubby 34 year old guy. When I was a kid and even into my teenage years, I was crazy skinny. I recently showed a pic to my current gf who didn't know me back then and she said I was so thin I looked sick. She almost cried when I told her I thought I was fat back then. Body dysmorphia for men is real and not talked about enough. Honestly this video was amazing and hit home, I still struggle with my body, thank you D'Angelo.
It kills me when I see men on the internet lying to boys and telling them women want men who look like Jason Momoa. No we don’t. We want thoughtful, funny, caring men with personalities. A woman can fall in love HARD with a man with an actual personality. The abs won’t last. We know it.
It's wild. I'm not fat, never was (in fact, at time I may even had the opposite issue), but I still struggled with this too at times, because my body obviously doesn't look like those impossible standard, because I am not doing any muscle building exercises. Height is another absurd metric. The fact imperial system has a higher standard, because 180cm isn't a nice round number is all the proof anyone need to know it's absurd. But still, I am 5'6. There was time I was bothered, even if honestly I don't have any issue with it in my everyday life.
I empathize with you. I’m sorry male body dysmorphia isn’t as discussed/ there isn’t enough awareness. I wish you the best, your gf sounds supportive snd loving❤
17F and I stand for men’s mental health cause nobody else will. Men can have EDs and so many problems, not just women - but that doesn’t make you or other men weak or “womanly” not that there’s anything wrong with being in touch with femininity!
It really pisses me off that people have become so desperate to appeal to temporary beauty standards that they will not care that they are preventing patients from obtaining medication that they need to treat their medical conditions and survive.
@ville__ i see you spreading horseshit on videos a lot, must take a lot of effort to keep all this up, have you tried any healthier hobbies? crocheting and knitting are pretty nice
Some of us are literally just addicted to food. Ozempic saved my life. It CLEARED the food noise out of my head instantly. It’s life changing and mine is only $100 a month with NO insurance
@@molly8726you arent who this comment is about. excessive and/or binge eating are genuine problems and it's great to hear people recover. but a few kgs around the tummy is fully normal, and the usage by people who literally couldnt need it less makes supply more scarce for people who DO need it. think back to when ignoramus doctors would prescribe hydroxychloroquine to people with covid, which it didnt work against, making supply for lupus sufferers almost impossible to get.
@@molly8726That’s great to hear that it has been able to improve your health. But what I meant in my initial comment was to call out how people who don’t need it for any type of medical care are abusing it’s use to obtain a temporary beauty standard and are making accessibility harder for those who need it for medical reasons.
I can see where this argument stems from, and while i agree ozempic being used this way is not worth it. The difficulty to optain isnt due to them, its due to suppliers. I see this argument used around people who use drugs aswell and its even worse there because the whole safe supply being proven to be more efficient thing. The companies and those who restrict are at blame for this
I think the most upsetting part about this for me is that I have had to BEG AND PLEAD for medication to treat my chronic illnesses that went undiagnosed for ages. And a rich person can just decide they wanna be thinner one day and they're rich enough that there's zero barrier for them to get meds about it. Awful.
horrible. my aunt went through the same, even with diagnosed long-standing chronic illnesses. i don’t get it. they’ll call you drug seeking. but only if you’re poor. hope you get/got your meds.
I mean if these celebrities were actually morbidly obese, treating the obesity would be important to prevent chronic illnesses. But none of these celebrities are obese enough to need a drug like Ozempic.
Sorry, but that's a myth. Also, their obesity is a health condition. Oprah has been rich for decades and has struggled with her weight despite having nutritionists and doctors and all kinds of things. Chalking it up to overeating while having no information, and thinking your disease is more important than others is your personal issue.
@peachesandpoets The issue is definitely built in the system HOWEVER it's also true that not all celebs need to take those drugs. Many go from chubby, but still 100% healthy, to thin. And it's worth noting that this drug doesn't come without consequences. According to those celebs they take those drugs like candy. So on the one hand you have normal people struggling to get access to life changing medication. On the other hand you have ultra rich people who get potentially dangerous drugs with no problem because they want to reach their perfect weight Something is wrong here
It’s not just an Ozempic problem. There have also been cases where people abuse ADHD medications due to its stimulant high and because one of the side effects is a significant reduction of one’s appetite. People have become so obsessed with falling into the unrealistic expectations that society has for beauty/body standards that they will purposely follow unhealthy diets and take medications that are not use for its intentional purpose. It’s extremely concerning because people will not do their proper research on the serious side effects that these drugs have and how it can create even more serious medical complications.
This makes me almost cry because I’ve dealt with the side effects of ADHD meds as a person who’s been diagnosed. If I could choose to not need to take it because I always feel fogged up and shitty when I do, I would. I can’t fully blame the people who abuse it because they also didn’t ask to be set up to unrealistic expectations of beauty and body types most people don’t have. It still pisses me off that they would choose to abuse drugs and their bodies instead of just speaking up about it.
I have little sympathy for those people. I have massive lack of appetite and ADHD, I literally cannot use the medication at least not regularly because I will literally starve. And to add insult to injury, it's so often out of stock too. I've never had to face shortage because of how little I have to use it due to that but I've got friends who rely on it and can't be sure they'll get it reliably.
I understand what youre saying - but I would like to point out a correction i think is relevant: Ozempic (semiglutide 1 mg active per dose) is not FDA approved for weight loss - but its friend Wegovy (same molecule - semiglutide 2.4 mg active per dose) is approved for that indication (FDA regulatory approval in 2021 - 4 separate randomized 68 week patient trials, >2600 participants). So technically they are using the molecule for its correct indication and thats why a doctor is willing to prescribe for weightloss. Thats not discounting its potential side effects. But - semiglutide molecule is FDA approved for weight loss at HIGHER DOSES than Ozempic. So to say people are using the substance for not its intended purpose is not really accurate. Also, from what I can see, dosages taken for patients with diabetes versus patients for weightloss are similar (1 mg active per dose max for diabetes - 1 - 2 mg per dose weightless). So particularly in the case of both patients (diabetic and weightloss at 1 mg per dose) - both are suceptible to the same serious side effects youre talking about. So taking this medication in most cases is just as dangerous whether youre doing it for weightloss or for diabetes.
@@ArturGlass.C I have struggled with my appetite since 6th grade when I went on ADHD medication after I was diagnosed. I am 5'7" and fluctuate between 110 and 120 lbs and people say "oh you're so lucky to be so skinny!" and "I wish I had adhd so I could take those meds", so I have stopped holding back in my response to that. I tell them aaaaaaaall about the hunger pains, gagging from forcing myself to eat, losing muscle mass from not eating, etc. I'm so sick of hearing it.
Part of the problem is doctors though. I'm actually diabetic, so I get lectured from the second I step foot in a healthcare facility until the moment I leave. Doctors will say things to fat people that they wouldn't say to anyone else because we don't matter to them. They let their filters and their masks slip around us, and imo, they actively want to give these drugs to all their patients. When I went on metformin for the first time in 2016, my doctor said that she considered it a "miracle drug" that every single adult in the US should be on (as though it didn't make me 🤮 in a weekly basis). I've had multiple doctors since then and I get really similar things said to me regularly about other dubious medical interventions. And of course when I switched from metformin to Ozempic, the doctor said something similar. "It's just for healthy weight management and LOTS of people benefit from that!" Like 🙄 sure. Doctors get paid to push meds. I've worked in a mental healthcare facility and the way the drug reps would feed the entire admin staff for no reason beyond bribery is absolutely wild. There were so many reps from different places too, that combined they were feeding 20-30 people, at least once a week. We can't blame people for doing exactly what their doctors are pushing them into. They didn't ask to be told that their bodies are broken just for being the way that they are. Imo, it's another reason we need universal healthcare, because it's a conflict of interest to have doctors getting kickbacks on the drugs they prescribe. It's dangerous.
The parallels between this and the opioid crisis are seriously chilling. In the opiod crisis, people in the US were manipulated to become addicted to opioids while the rest of the world who need them for palliative care can't access them. For ozempic, thru hollywood people are using it for weightloss, while people who need it for diabetes are going without due to shortages. Not to mention people in other countries.
@@jamiehendrix2568 yeah, I have severe ADHD and I am constantly worried that I'm not gonna have enough for the month. My brain cannot function without it, and that's so dangerous because I have a job and responsibilities. It's not like I can call my manager up and be like "hey I can't come in, I don't have the executive function to get out of bed" for entire month. That's ridiculous and neurodivergency isn't seen as a serious medical issue so I'd just lose my job. Another fear is the withdrawals, and even though I don't feel the side effects of Adderall, I would still very much feel the withdrawal symptoms. I hate neurodivergency and ADHD so much already, so not having the resources I need to be a normal person is even more upsetting
@@jamiehendrix2568 at this point the majority of the adderall thing is because the DEA put artificial limits on production despite no evidence of widespread abuse serious enough to warrant such limits. The limits are based on how many people they think should have ADHD, not the actual cases (and are also based on the old idea that it's only diagnosed in children who are hyperactive.) It's quite easy to look online and see that the shortage is deliberately manufactured and not based on a mysterious force slurping up all the adderall to give it to college students without adhd. This could've been what you meant, I don't write this to seem rude but just to let people know
I love seeing creators speak up about this. I work in a pharmacy, and have to tell type 2 diabetics daily “I’m sorry, but your Ozempic/Wegovy/Mounjaro/Zepbound is still on backorder”. I’ve been working in pharmacy for 3 years and last week was the first time we’ve ever gotten in the starting dose of Wegovy. These are life saving drugs for a lot of people, and they can’t access them.
@@molly8726 I never said that the drug shouldn’t be used off label. Wegovy is even FDA approved for weight loss, not just diabetes. I do believe there should be a triage system to get the drugs to those who need it most urgently first. Because that is not currently happening.
@@molly8726 I commented before but it disappeared. Idk why maybe one of the words is filtered. Anyway: I never said they shouldn’t be used off label. Wegovy is even FDA approved for just weight loss. But I think there should be a triage system to get GLP-1s to those who need it most urgently first.
I haven't had any diabetic medications for over 3 months because of the shortages. Trying to regulate my diabetes without the medication is extremely difficult for me to the point I have starved myself for days just so my sugar doesn't spike to dangerous levels and instead had it drop to dangerous levels. To know that people who don't need this medication are taking it infuriates me.
So people in the USA can just buy medicine without a doctor's receipt? Or do they just buy it through other less legal/moral ways? Where I'm from(we have universal healthcare) they do not sell you medicines if you don't have a receipt. Especially when it's something as important as a diabetic medicine. Even if the full price is not covered by the government, no matter what it's not gonna be sell to anyone. Damn, we even have ibuprofen regulated through receipts now.
Body neutrality CHANGED my life. The concept of just appreciating my body for getting through the day and trying to always remove morality from my own size really saved a lot of my previously horrible self image
me too, when my parents bullied the shit out me because I gain few pounds ( im not even overweight) I started accepted my body and I want just put healthy food into my body 😅 no matter how I look
I had a restrictive eating disorder and now I am mildly overweight and I am telling you that social media is a big influence on how you feel at both ends. I would spend hours online looking at diets and inspo from celebrities and influencers and it is so unsafe to have this stuff out and preempted on places like tick tok. It dose real harm and can hurt so many people. Stay safe people.
I'm probably much older than you because this happened to me in the early 90s with fashion magazines. A friend who loved fashion would give me tons of her old magazines. After a while, I realized that when I read them, I felt fat, poor, and ugly. Usually, I rarely even thought about how I looked. I thought I was cute, LOL. I haven't paid much attention to fashion since then.
yes! i grew up on pro-eating disorder tumblr and pro-ED instagram, back before instagram had any restrictions and hid certain posts and hashtags. it was the wild west of the internet at the time lol, but seriously, i think it was one of the biggest contributing factors that lead to my bulimia. i was in middle/high school at the time. back in 2012-2014ish era, both instagram and tumblr were littered with pics of thinspo, extremely restrictive diets, ED “tips and tricks”, and tons and tons of accounts massed together creating toxic communities of tween and teen girls encouraging each other to starve themselves as much and as often as possible. these accounts actually still exist en mass on tumblr, though tumblr is a little more through with deactivating such pro-ED accounts these days. but users just create new ones. in fact, this was really the second wave of internet ED communities, because the first ones started in the early 2000s as pro-ana forums. I used to frequent these as well back in the day (2010s) but as that decade went on, the pro-ana forums started to die out (though a few are still considerably active). the internet is so dangerous for young people to grow up with. if i had discovered the internet as an adult instead of as a child, there’s a chance i would have been mature enough to understand that those pictures of skeletal girls are dangerous and harmful, and i wouldn’t have tried to emulate them the way i did at 13.
I'm a diabetic. I'm also extremely insulin resistant. I've tried all of the older once a week injections for diabetes. None of them have worked well. I tried ozempic and it took my A1C from an 11 to a 6. Then the shortages began and I couldn't find it anywhere within 100 miles so my insurance company wound up agreeing to pay for mounjaro which they didn't actually cover at the time. And mounjaro took my A1C from a 6 to a 4. I'm now down to my last two weeks of medication and I can't find it anywhere. Not to mention because of the shortages I've had to take it every 10 days instead of every 7 days and my sugars are being affected. I have two pens left and when I run out I don't know what I'm going to do and I'm scared. This is the reality of so many diabetics right now all because people want to use and abuse these medications.
Ugh I'm so so sorry. I rely on a few medicines to keep me alive and it's terrifying not being able to find them. The added insult you are facing that you can't access it because dummies with too much money are literally just using it for vanity reasons is just.. I'm so mad on your behalf
Try a weight loss clinic like a medical spa. There is a medical spa near me that gives shots for $15 for weight loss. It’s crazy how they’re not the doctors offices but at the spas…
Change your diet and your sugar wouldn’t be so affected. The people are not the problem the manufacturers are purposely not releasing it in the vials in the USA causing the shortage to worsen.
@@infinitedreaming222 It sounds like you're clueless about diabetes & insulin resistance. Diet won't solve the issue. Dunning Kruger has a theory about you.
The fact that people are hesitant to stop smoking due to the "risk of weight gain" should be remembered whenever someone tries to tell you that fatphobia is good for other people's health
@@NewtGQ i mean, i can see how it's relevant. people smoke and they lose their appetite, they drop a few pounds, and get scared to stop in case it comes back. even people who never lost weight from smoking might think their appetite rebound will cause them to gain if they stop, so they choose the option of being just unhealthy instead of unhealthy and undesirable. it makes sense when you think about it.
@NewtGQ it's not. People pretend to be mean as a form of "tough love" to get people to "be healthy", but there is a lot of evidence to sh9w that is absolutely not the case.
I LOVE THIS. I'm endocrinologist - diabetologist and I stand by everything you said. That was very well put, very thought-through, very accurate. Love your work !
Here’s the crazy thing. I’m someone with a long restrictive eating disorder history, who ended up obese because of improper refeeding in treatment, and while I’ve slowly and healthily lost a good amount of weight (I’m now a US size 10) I still can’t say I don’t have a desire to use weight loss drugs. I had a PROBLEM. I often still have the same disordered mentalities. I would absolutely have taken something that could wreck my health to get thin- I was already killing myself slowly via starvation, why would I care if something else damaged me in my pursuit of thinness. Encouraging use of this to specifically get *thin* not just to a healthy weight, is so dangerous.
Agreed! Because I'm also kind of in recovery from restrictive and disordered eating. But many of my days will include thoughts relating to Not Being Skinny, it just isn't a strong enough urge to cause me to keep hurting myself. And so these things still really appeal to me, because a good healthy weight for me includes being mindful of what i eat and exercise (which im so lazy about). I cant imagine how bad this can be for those who are already in the midst of disordered eating -- restricting their diets and then just taking ozempic to lose weight EVEN MORE. I can't imagine...
judging based on your pfp, i wouldnt really take US womens sizes to heart or anything either because some of them are just arbitrary between companies. its kinda just some bs lmfao
Props to Robert Pattinson who refused to drastically alter his body for The Batman. And that movie was a huge success. It just goes to show that it’s absolutely not necessary. I hope we see more pushback like that.
and the girls still loved him! it's insane how hollywood thinks peak hotness is achieved only by starving yourself, it's insane. i think this is just a difference between the male gaze and the female gaze. men have had more power in hollywood, so what kind of accepted male beauty standards are you gonna get from that? male beauty standards that *men* view as good looking. but at the end of the day, everyone gets infected with that mindset
I don’t think there’s anything commendable about that. You’re playing a superhero that’s meant to fight bigger and stronger characters with actual superpowers. Doing that while having the physique of a teenage boy is disrespectful to the character.
2 years sober from cocaine, I can’t tell you how many people told me I either looked amazing for being super skinny or worse for losing my thickness, while none of them knew why I probably looked so skinny. I didn’t do cocaine to lose weight, I was addicted and it made it harder for me to quit when people told me I looked great, I felt like they were obsessed with my body and I needed to maintain my figure. I struggled with body dysmorphia my whole life and even at my smallest I felt huge. I don’t get why people are so obsessed with peoples bodies, I just am happy to be clean and that my body never gave up on me while I destroyed it. Thank you for recommending people to not assume someone’s healthy just because they are skinny, I was at my worst health while looking to some people “at my best”.
I was in rehab 2 years ago ( heroin/alcohol) and all the women and several men who were addicted to meth and coke voiced the same thing and many said that was their no. 1 motivation for relapse. It was very sad and i felt deeply for them and you ( i can relate tottaly)im glad that it sounds like your intelligent and aware and addressing it. I wish you all the luck!
Congratulations on the sober time! Man if only people knew that recovering addicts gaining weight is a sign of sobriety. My fiancé works in the world of recovery and he gushes about his guys “putting meat on their bones”, it’s great to see.
@@Estassi55 thank you! This means a lot to me. It’s always been a difficult part of recovery but I’m grateful my body never gave out, thank you and to your husband for what he does 💗he’s saving lives.
@@williamdixon-gk2sk yes I agree it’s a huge indicating factor in people’s relapse. Congratulations on recovery 💗I wish you the best also and I’m happy we are able to comfort one another in some sort of way by relating to each other.
There was no maybe for me. It was just “You’re thirsty, drink water.” Granted it was a bit different, I have difficulty telling whether or not I’m hungry and when I’m full.
With the resurgence of y2k fashion we've circled back to early 2000s diet culture where everyone was legit promoting eating disorders and starving yourself to "look skinny" T_T I hate it here.
As someone who spent weeks hospitalized, had a feeding tube, and now am struggling with malnutrition and possible cancer, I needed this video. I’ve had SO many people tell me how amazing I look. And yes I’ve lost a lot of weight. I’ve lost weight because I am sick. I feel awful. And to have everyone congratulating me on this is so beyond weird.
My mother is going through stage 4 colorectal cancer and she has been struggling with her weight loss. She's become so small that her clothes don't fit her anymore. Meanwhile I have hypothyroidism and I went from being skinny to what is classified as "plus size" now. Reality, society and weight can be really depressing. I'm praying for you and wishing you good health and great mental health 🤎
fr. I weigh more than I ever have, like 140 lbs, but feel great and am living my best life. A few years ago I weighed 95 lbs, my lowest weight, due to a mental breakdown caused by extreme anxiety. Guess which time people have been “concerned about my health”.
I'm a pharmacy tech and most of the people that I see that are on ozempic, mounjaro, repatha, etc, are people who genuinely need it but most of the time they will only be able to even see the drug at our pharmacy once in a full moon and most of them have ridiculous copays that are as high as rent. Whenever they need a refill, or even one of the higher dosages, it is almost always on back order, meaning that we have tried to order multiple times but there aren't enough or too many pharmacies are ordering them as well. It is honestly sad to see because the amount of things the patients have to do just to get ONE pack whereas these celebrities just get them so easily just leaves me such a bad taste in my mouth.
I’m a pharmacy tech too and it’s the same thing at my pharmacy. We hardly ever get any of those medications in and, on the rare occasion we do, they’re immediately dispensed to patients in need of it who have been waiting for months. Plus, most of the time, those patients are leaving having had a copay equal to or greater than a monthly car loan payment to get the meds they need even after insurance is billed. It’s insane. Not to mention the entire prior authorization process they usually have to go through before hand to get insurance to cover it in the first place is grueling.
Also, a pharmacy tech! This has been a trend for the last like 2 years at my pharmacy, same with ADHD meds. I get calls almost every day about Wegovy, Mounjaro, Trulicity, Victozia, and Zepbound. And it's not just these drugs too. In my area, because my pharmacy can't get ahold of these meds for our diabetic patients, doctors have been prescribing other insulins, like Lantus or Novolog, but those are now on backorder. Don't even get me started with the methylphenidate or lisdexaphetamine backorders.
@@jacksukepharm student here lol! the lisdexamphetamine issues at least in my country are primarily due to the US governing bodies not allowing greater amounts of stock to be sent over to AUS and since we aren't allowed to domestically produce it due to again US governing bodies it means I can't get my medication all because some foreign government says I can't in essence drives me up the wall
I’m so glad us pharm techs (and pharm student lol) are all in agreement with this…it’s literally insane how once we get ANY of those drugs in they are immediately gone that day for patients waiting to get them….we have a patient who is on ozempic and who will constantly talk about how much she can eat and not have to worry about the weight gain. And I’m like how can you be so ignorant..there are literally so many people who need the medication for diabetes. And there are people just Willy nilly consuming whatever they want without any repercussions….i know weight loss is a huge issue and a problem and it can be hard. The fact that some people just don’t put in any effort and just look to this miracle drug to do that is honestly very lazy…it’s very annoying. The constant calls we get for asking if we have it in, when we’ll have it in. Being accused of lying and cussed out for not having it. The patients who DO need it ALSO getting annoyed we don’t have it and threaten to go to another pharmacy (which prob won’t have it either.) the constant telling them it’s a NATIONAL BACKORDER. And I understand why they’re upset! It just gets frustrating when it’s like we’re at a standstill and no matter how many times we order we can not get it in.
"I'd also like to point out that weight loss is not always good." Say it louder for the people in the back 👏👏👏 When I was at my lowest weight (with an ED), my weird aunties kept asking me "Oh, darling! What's your secret?" instead of realising I was miserable and felt like I was dead with no energy
Another other note: I go to the gym roughly 8-9 hours a week. I also have PCOS. When I asked for advice I was told “do weightlifting at the gym more often!” Like… I have a job. I have a family and friends. How much time am I expected to be tied to the gym to be “healthy”? And what celebs don’t tell you is they are PAID to be at the gym to prep for a role. They can afford to be there all day. Most of us can’t. Some of us only have 8-9 hours, and that’s if the week goes well.
100% I agree. Their full time job is trying to look good, the rest of us couldn’t reasonably invest the time and money to maintain the twisted beauty standards. Good on you for keeping a good exercise routine too:)👍🏽
I also have pcos and my job requires me to walk 5-7 miles a day and it does nothing for the weight. it also wouldn't leave in the 10 years i starved myself and was in every sport possible pcos is a bitch, and staring yourself is a good way to make sure your body can no longer handle sugar/carbs
oh dear, I got diagnosed with PCOS and even underwent surgery. I've done heavy exercises, trying out fasting, etc and it was still doing nothing. In the end I found the right treatment to control my hormones, and at the same time got more opportunities to exercise more and eat healthier foods and I am still not as skinny as I hoped for - which is good. At my skinniest time I wasn't healthy and depressed, and now when I don't think too much of my weight and focus more on my health, I just overall feel happier and at my fittest state
Tbf, most people also haven't successfully lost weight either and that's without a condition that affects your hormones. I was once told to waterfast 100 lbs off myself.
I work in a pharmacy and it is so horrible having to tell diabetic patients that we can’t order their life-sustaining medication. I hate humanity (Excluding D’Angelo, thank you king)
The pharmacy I use prioritizes established diabetes patients when they get shipments of these medications, just like they prioritized established autoimmune disease patients when there was a hydroxychloraquine shortage.
I had gestational diabetes and it was eye opening, so many people think type 2 is just eating less sugar and watching your diet, it effects every aspect of your day. Want to go out for a few hours? Better pack all your gear, make sure you have safe snacks. Stuck in traffic? Oh dear, your blood sugar is plummeting and there’s nothing you can do about it, if you eat a snack now you will have to wait an hour until you have a meal and it’ll throw your whole day off. Someone ate what you were planning to have for dinner? Oh no, you have no diabetes safe alternatives so you either need to go buy more food, eat unsafe food that’ll leave you hungry or risk having a hypo. Can’t get your blood sugar to stabilise? Back to hospital it is!
Reminds me of a few years ago when some ADHD medications were really hard to get, and people often misuse those as well, for similar reasons, and we really need to work as a society, on not judging people for what they look like, or what medications they use. We should also make sure that people who need such medications to be able to function are able to get them.
@@joylox where i work (uk) ADHD medications are near impossible to get ahold of atm. i think this particular shortage is because of rising diagnosis and manufacturing issues. there are so many factors, as well as the huge environmental and economic impacts pharmaceutical companies have on lower income countries. the lack of health infrastructure and lower average income of these countries will also make receiving much medication difficult. the huge wars going on at the moment and the difficulty reaching those areas with aid are really not helping either. i have such low expectations for the human race improving medication availability much unfortunately :(
Honestly it feels like the most rebellious thing you can do now a days is love yourself and others while not letting them sell you cures to insecurities they manufacture
Not even love yourself. Just being neutral, like I am who I am, it's frowned upon. "How can you not be insecure when by my standards you look worse than I do and I am insecure"
Fr, it's like many humans are being Oprah with cars, except instead of cars it's handing out reasons to be insecure and neglectful of one's health Edit: I wrote this before seeing the Oprah portion of this video but I'll leave it up lmao
I worked in pharmacies for three years, 80% of the time we were out of stock of ozempic and any similar medication. This would happen for months at a time. Every day we would have someone call desperately hoping we had some and we had to turn them away, it was upsetting. These were often known patients and regulars who we knew had important medical reasons to take it.
"a couple hours ago I was eating, and I was happier than I am now, so I should go back to doing that" is SUCH an important feeling to identify, and not just for food! Procrastination, drugs, avoidant behaviors, etc are so good at parading as good ideas.
@@checkerboardz Literally what on earth are you yapping about? They're referring to a really great redirection strategy in behaviour change psychology to AVOID bad habits like drugs
Seeing those old pictures of D'Angelo were shocking, because he seems to be taller than everyone around him. I always imagined him as a 4'11" short king. My life has been a lie.
Hang on...did she say my 'anti-aging doctor'? EVERYBODY AGES good LORD yes I know I know, we all need to look forever young but PLEASE can we just stop expecting everyone (yes, mostly women) to keep looking like they're 20-30?
Legitimately, thank you for the weight loss advise. "The skinny version of me IS me" is something I have NEVER heard anyone put into words before but was so eye opening
My mom literally tried to sell me on ozempic 3 hours ago. I told her it’s not happening because I’m already losing weight and I’m already on medications to handle pre-existing issues that contribute to weight gain prescribed by my *qualified* doctor. In fact, I gained a lot of that weight because she ignored my concerns when I was underage and she was controlling my access to healthcare. She even offered to pay for Ozempic, and considering the financial situation she’s in, I can’t believe she offered to pay for it. I had no idea it was THAT expensive. I don’t even necessarily want to be thin, I’m just happy that me and my body are in a better place and I refuse to hate on my fatter former self because she got me here and she deserved compassion. If I could force another person to take therapy, my mom would be in it yesterday.
The pressure to be thin by families is perpetually exhausting, even as someone who didn't live it. Literally all of my friends have stories of how many times their parents and relatives have made comments or 'suggestions' on their weight that 90% of the time had no relation to health. They were perfectly healthy, participated in sports regularly, and on a skinny person, could be considered the beacon of health. The 'concern' is almost never about health and is almost ALWAYS about aesthetics. Not to mention, the fact that some were unhealthily overweight was because their family fed them the worst nutrition on the planet, and passively conditioned them into eating disorders. I hope you're doing well 🤍 I wish more people would take your same approach.
There's a thought. What if you tell Mom she has to go to therapy for a year and then after the 48 or 50 sessions of therapy, if she still wants you to take Ozempic,then you will. Only, you break that promise if you need to. Obviously.
My mom has type 2 diabetes and the uprising of Ozempic and Mounjaro being used cosmetically made it basically impossible for her to get the medication she needed. The people who REALLY NEED this stuff are basically being pushed aside for people who just want a quick fix for their weight… its so unfair.
Wrong. The SMALL majority are abusing it. This drug is PREVENTING future diabetics. If your mom took this drug 20+ years ago prior to getting diabetes you would be shaming her but she could have PREVENTED having diabetes. It’s saving lives
I’m so sorry dude that’s awful, Ozempic is supposed to be for diabetes. Most insurance companies may not cover Ozempic unless the patient is diabetic and it’s so unfair to those who need it like your mom that their medicine is getting drained from the market because people of those using it to lose weight
"I'm only concerned about their health" weirdly never gets brought up with very skinny people, muscular people, or people that lose weight rapidly. Saw that myself. I lost almost 20kg in 3 months once because I got myself into an ED and excercising addiction and I was miserable, but all I got was "wow, you look so good!" "Good for you!" "You go girl!" "Omg how did you do that, that's amazing!". Nobody cared that this was an unhealthy amount of weight to lose in that timeframe, or if soething might be wrong. I even saw one of my friends got compliments for her weightloss when she literally had an extreme stomach infection that didn't allow her to eat for weeks on end. Yeah
when anyone trots out the "I'm only concerned about their health!" argument I always bring. up other health behaviours like drinking or smoking. like, do you butt in and tell people they don't need another drink? get in smokers' business about their tobacco use? (plus, smoking actually *does* directly affect people around you, unlike being fat) and I feel for you about getting those comments when your weight loss was not healthy. I never got more compliments than when I dropped 20 pounds in a month or so in college due to *severe strep throat*. now I just make a policy of not commenting on other people's bodies, period. compliment their style! or their hair! it's not hard!
Anytime I hear or read someone saying they are only concerned about a person's health, they are usually completely lying and are only saying that bullshit to justify bullying a person for their weight. I've seen it too many times.
I've heard people be 'concerned' about a woman's health because she's too thin, as well as not thin enough. It's just that we usually hear about it on the side where they think people should lose weight because of fatphobia, but the broader problem is putting value on people's appearances at all. I'm glad D'Angelo spoke about body neutrality, because it would go a long way toward reducing the toxic stuff about appearance and body size
i remember seeing someone the other day talk about how they lost a lot of weight when they had cancer and when people would ask her how she got skinny and she said 'cancer' they'd get angry with her and say it wasn't funny like SHE was the problem. unhinged behaviour to think a sick person's body is goals and then get mad at them for telling you the truth.
I feel like im learning about how the people in the capitol eat lavish food but then take pills to throw it up so they can eat more while theres people starving in the districts
My mum is extremely sick with a rare illness, and it's caused extreme weight loss quickly. It's made things really uncomfortable because people will congratulate her not realizing what's going on.
My mom has an autoimmune that nearly killed her snd everyone congratulated her and told her she looked so healthy. Like really? Shes grey and her hair and teeth are falling out but shes shrinking so thats what counts....
My mom used ozempic and it pulled her back off of the “pre-diabetes” line in her bloodwork. It is an amazing drug for folks right there on the line of developing diabetes. Having this medication available can really make a shocking impact on diabetes patients
worked at a local pharmacy in Australia in late 2022. We had WAIT-LISTS for diabetic patients who NEEDED Sumaglutide. We had customers in tears, coming in every day checking if we had it in stock. It got to a point where we had to stop taking their scripts because our wait list was so long, and had people calling from all over the state asking if we had it. And these people were ALWAYS diabetic people. It’s not fair.
The wake up call for me to not automatically associate weight with health was when I noticed my friend's dad had lost a lot of weight. I mentioned he looked great and asked if he'd been working out... Turns out he was extremely sick and losing weight was totally out of his control. That was a slap of reality to me, breaking me out of years of conditioning that skinny = healthy. Never looked at it the same way again.
I work at a medical clinic and it’s very sad to see our diabetic patients suffering from these shortages in diabetic medications. There are weight loss medications that these celebrities can take, but when there are shortages on that weight loss medication these people can easily switch to the diabetic version. These celebrities are ruining it for the people who actually need the medication to live.
I'm so sick of this virtue signaling. Type 2 diabetes is 100% preventable and in the vast majority of cases it can be reversed through diet. If you want to blame someone, how about you address the real culprits: greedy corporations and corrupt politicians?
i know someone who was really really struggling bc she couldn't get her ozempic bc it was one of the few diabetes medication that actually worked for her
Ozempic has literally been life changing for me. I’ve been able to handle my PCOS in a way that was never possible before. It pisses me off to no end that people who don’t really need it keep getting it while the rest of us have to fight just to get the medicine we need.
I’m about to start another glp-1 for PCOS and metabolic syndrome. Hoping I have as good an experience as you. The thing I hate most about randos taking it is it makes this legit medicine that has been massive for people w metabolic issues seem like some frivolous cosmetic surgery or something.
How have y'all gotten insurance to pay for it?? My insurance stopped paying for it bc I "wasn't diabetic" (I'm actually pre diabetic and haven't had a period in literal years bc of my PCOS) and now I'm still struggling with even trying to maintain my weight.
Exactly. I have PCOS and I think I won't ever be able to get my hands on this drug that would change my whole life. Metformin barely has helped slow the progression of my insulin resistance, and no matter what I do I won't lose the unhealthy weight I'd gained during the time I was unaware of my insulin resistance. It hurts to know there are so many of us out there who need this medication as a way to control our hormonal imbalances and we can't get it. That there are people out there who put their own vanity before our health.
my grandmother has waited 5 months for ozempic to come in from the VA hospital and in the meantime had to pay out of pocket for her refills from another office. She had no choice. Her health insurance was not the best either. Really infuriated by this trend. Thank you for shedding light on this. ❤
Yep. Same thing with my mom. She's had to go back to rationing her meds until there's more available. Her mounjaro goes on back order every few months.
My coworker is diabetic and he was prescribed ozempic. He now finds it difficult to get his prescription filled. Edit: thought it was important to note that I live outside the US. So we don't get ads for prescription medications like in the states. The ozempic trend came over here via social media and word of mouth
Type 1 diabetic here. When I first got sick, a lot people immediately commented on my dramatic weight loss when I'd been unable to process carbs for a month, went into shock, and nearly died. There's a conversation under all this about how both types of diabetes are talked about when the potential causes go far beyond lifestyle. When your relationship with food and these medications is actually life or death, it messes with your body image and makes high blood sugar and weight feel like personal failure. I'm currently in recovery from T1ED, basically an eating disorder where you don't take insulin in order to lose weight. I'm doing better now, but managing these diseases is hard enough without people lining norvo nordisk and Eli Lillys pockets and continuing to associate our disease with weight. As long as this remains trendy and profitable, there's no incentive for the companies to lower the cost of insulin and other medications like this.
High five from another T1 diabetic. The thing I'm learning from all of this is that the general public do not have any f*cking idea how diabetes immediately impacts your life. High blood sugar isn't a fun little thing, it's life threatening and it can put you in DKA in a matter of hours! People just assume that only fat people get diabetes and ergo fat people deserve all they get. I've even seen fat people misdiagnosed with T2 because their doctors assume they can't have T1, which uh, has been life threatening for some people considering their urgent need for insulin! The whole thing is horrible and super upsetting for me as a fat person with T1.
Fellow T1D here and I 1000% agree with you! People need to realize that having either type of diabetes is morally neutral. With type 1, it's truly the luck of the draw whether it hits you, and with type 2, there's a big genetic component. The lack of empathy from people who blindly assume diabetes = eating too much sugar and getting fat is just astonishing
Yes, have had t1 since i was 8, and i dont believe i would have had depression so young if my nurses/doc from the childrens hospital didn't guilt me so much for being scatterbrained and not being able to control my sugars/lower my A1C well enough. Diabetes is definitely something many people can live with and thrive despite having, however I feel like the general public really downplays/doesnt know the extent of harm it can do to oneself outside of the whole pancreas not working thing.
first of all i hope you are doing alright, diabetes is really hard even when you do things right. I was diagnosed with t1d around the age 8/9 and for years i did an ok job eating and taking care of my diabetes but even then my blood sugars werent that amazing. I was diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression around 8 or 9th grade. I binged ate and didnt take care of my diabetes. I'm doing better now and I've been taking care but its a lot of work and my blood sugar is always high (200-300 sometimes even higher) after breakfast no matter what I eat or even when i didnt it anything. Its frustrating and my bloodsugars feel like mood swings
Just wanna say thank you for all the T1 Diabetics sharing their stories here. I'm not much of a RU-vid Commenter but it's very reassuring seeing fellow Diabetics sharing similar stories and being able to relate.
wow... I've been struggling with EDs my whole life, made tons of progress in therapy, intensive outpatient program, and working with a dietitian, but I'm still learning new things to help my journey toward recovery. Your reflection on not "othering your ideal self" made my jaw drop, and I will be thinking about it all week: the ideal version of yourself "is not worth more or less than anybody else," and "I am that person who will one day be healthier. That person is not a more palatable alternative to me" 😭🧡 thank you so much for sharing this raw and real revelation!!
This infuriates me. I was put on Mounjaro to help maintain my diabetes back in October. I have gone without it for over a month now because of the shortage of it due to trend dieters. My A1C was down to 6.1 and now I don't have it back under control. This is killing me. I hope the shortage ends soon and I can get my blood sugar back under control again. Thank you for bringing attention to this.
You know it would help if the drug was declared a medical necessity and released from patent protection. That’s usually what you would do with a life saving drug. But big pharma would never. It’s not the 1200 people in Hollywood taking your drugs. It’s the companies who refuse to make more/make it more available. Ozempic paid tabloids to run stories about Hollywood abuse to increase demand.
this should be pinned to show a real + hard example. either way hope my comment bumps it. try transferring jt to any nearby pharms if you can, others nearby may have it in stock but idk if you live in a rural area or anything so sorry if that cant apply :( ood luck and i hope the other ‘patients’ get a clue…
Oh, god. I hope your medication situation is resolved soon. That's so frightening. Update us about how you're doing soon? D'Angelo: OP's comment should be pinned.
I used to be super skinny and had a model like figure when I was in my late teens and early twenties. I remember getting so many compliments and having retail workers practically play dress up with me whenever I tried on clothes in a store because they wanted to see how certain clothing items looked on someone like me. Because of this, I really struggled when I gained weight due to age and being on birth control. Now a days it feels like nobody compliments my body and I definitely don’t have anyone handing me more clothes to try on when I go shopping. It really hurt my self-esteem for the longest time, and I can still have rough days even now where I just want to hide away from the world and have no one see my body at all. But the crazy and sad truth is that I’m much healthier now than I was then. When I was super skinny I was borderline underweight and was constantly lightheaded and dizzy. Every time I stood up I would need to take a moment to settle and let the black spots clear from my vision. I wasn’t even able to workout without feeling like I might faint. That should have been a readily apparent sign that I wasn’t in good health, but everyone glorifying my body led me to believe I was perfectly fine when I wasn’t. I’m able to do so much more things with the body I have now and live a better life, yet I spend so much time hating my body because it’s no longer the societal beauty ideal like it once was. I’m trying to be more accepting of the way I look now and not tear myself down so much, and videos like this really help. It reminds me that we have a tendency to hold certain body types in high regard even though there are numerous reasons why they might look that way. Same can be said for people who are far from the beauty ideal. In the end, yes, I gained weight, but it wasn’t a negative thing and I need to stop treating it like that. I feel physically better than I ever have, and that’s super important, even if it comes at the risk of me seeming less attractive to the general public. I am a whole person and I’m more than just my beauty, and I deserve to go outside and not feel lightheaded just to gain a compliment.
I relate to your comment so much! I was super skinny growing up but I always had some curves. I remember the people working in clothing stores always commenting on how nice and skinny I was but that I still had a nice butt. It made me so uncomfortable and I really struggled when my hips got wider during puberty when I started birth control. It caused me to start bingeing and it has taken years for me to finally get it under control, eventhough I still struggle sometimes. The crazy thing is that people still complement me sometimes but I just always compare myself to super skinny younger me. People need to just stop commenting on other peoples bodies completely
I had similar experiences when I was very thin about 10 years ago. Back then I was always getting sick, my hair was falling out, and I was anemic, but people would make positive comments about my figure so frequently. I remember having a similar experience in clothing stores where the workers would act like I was a mannequin and practically force me to try on different outfits because I was so tall (5’10ish) and slim. But I think the thing that impacted me the most was how my family seemed so proud that I was so thin, like it made them look better because I looked a certain way. I’ve gained some weight since then and am much healthier now, but even still I have a hard time when I look in the mirror because I feel like I should still look that way.
I think there's something dark going on in the human collective consciousness around health. I ended up losing weight accidentally as a result of a very needed health journey, and the glow up resulted in social experiences that have made me want to stay inside and avoid people whenever possible as well. It's so odd, finally looking the way I wish I looked during the years I was around lots of people and involved in various group activities - and yet, the only person so far who has been able to appreciate my healthier body in a dignified, non envious, non predatory way, is me. I'm baffled by this, and I also don't think size actually has much to do with this. I think there are humans who value health, and humans who don't, and there's occasionally clashes because of that. I just hope those of us who do value true health, don't get too isolated
I cannot believe how short our memories are. When i first heard about it, i mentioned it to my mom who lived through the hard boiled egg diets and terrifying "miracle" diet pill side effects of the 70s and she couldn't imagine there could be an issue with it at first. We've been here before. Your weight is not your health and abusing drugs in ways they aren't generally prescribed for is gonna have negative side effects. It's pretty straightforward. It's just terrible how even people without health-related weight issues are so desperate to be more attractive or acceptable or whatever that we're willing to put ourselves at such serious risk. I appreciate what youre doing here; i hope it helps someone who needs it.
I hate how much I am forced to think about my body. Whether it’s due to weight loss TikToks or news outlets salivating over Ozempic, I feel like at every turn I have to consider how my body fits in with the norm. This has caused crippling eating disorders and self hatred. I wish I could think more neutrally, but that goes against the very nature of our society. I’ll keep trying though.
Same here. I'm only 30 and I want to try and start dating again but I'm so scared. :( It's like all the horrible insecurities I grew up seeing my mom and other women in the 90s/early 2000s stressing out about are even worse for everyone now. The ageism and fatphobia is even more insane nowadays because social media creates such high expectations for how people should look. And if you're not committed to maintaining an increasingly unrealistic figure and ironing out every wrinkle it's seen as a moral failure just because you'd rather put your time and energy elsewhere. It suuuuucks.
@@scarymonsterzzkeep going you two, i know its hard right now but its never going to be hard for long. i cant say anything thats going to change your life, but i was there too. best of luck
I completely get you. I wonder if two things feel possible: first, retraining your algorithm(s), and second, practicing gratitude for what your body can do, as opposed to what it looks like? If the second one feels out of reach, that's okay. I know it's not a universally accessible practice, esp for people with disabilities or chronic pain. But, if there are things you can do with your body that you're grateful for - hugging your loved ones, tasting delicious food, listening to wonderful music - try writing those things down. I bet you can retrain your algo too. Gym video pops up on your feed? Click "not interested." See a video about Ozempic (like this one)? Resist the urge to click. Swipe to a body checking video? Scroll away with the swiftness! At the same time, whenever you come across content that does NOT trigger you, make sure you engage with it. Let that kitten Tiktok play 5 times. Comment on that flower arranging reel. Copy the link to that comedian's RU-vid video. Tell the algo what you DO want to see instead of weight loss stuff. I know it's hard cuz this stuff is literally designed to be emotionally activating and upsetting to keep you on the apps as long as possible... But I've successfully removed all manosphere, political, and news content from EVER coming up on my feeds this way, so I can attest to it. You got this 💗
@@lilymulligan8180 honestly, I'd recommend stopping using social media. I've been around for the beginning and evolution of social media and the transformation has been disgusting. Focus on the real people around you and the real things around you. Your time is precious and better spent NOT sitting around for who knows how long "retraining your algorithm". Fuck your algorithm; it only exists to turn your finite lifetime into money for from already rich asshole. I cut out social media years ago and it's been great. If my friends need to reach me they know how to text or call. Social media isn't like food or air; you don't need it to survive and at this point it's more like poison than anything. Go and live your life wherever you are, don't worry about what strangers online think. My opinion is that people think "social media is just needed these days to stay in touch" because those companies paid good money to get us to think this way. We don't have to listen to them.
It was so infuriating working at a family practice, and half our calls were diabetic people saying that the ozempic samples were the best thing, but nobody had it in stock. They would leave voicemail begging their doctor for accesible alternatives but ALL the alternatives were out too.
As someone who went from being an overweight girl to a vaguely normal looking woman, I second this. People treat you like utter trash when you're fat. My fiance is thin and has always been thin. I have tried explaining to him that if you're fat, you don't have value anymore because no one cares about you when you don't look good, and he just doesn't believe it.
what i hate is the way they DENY that they treat fat people worse. they have the audacity to say that people treat you differently when you're fat because *you* hate your own body and *your* negativity makes other people treat you poorly.
Thank you for this; your breakdown of fatphobia was so validating. I once had someone who I didn’t know well contact me telling me they were worried about my health because I was overweight as if they were doing me a favour, rather than shattering me. I remember reading so many comments online complaining about plus size clothes shops because it encourages people to be fat rather than just providing you clothes to put on your body, which I deserve as much as you do.
i lost a bunch of weight at uni because my stress got so bad i sometimes would forget to eat and honestly never even felt hungry. SO MANY PEOPLE would comment on how good i looked and i was so over it when people would say “congrats” or “wow you look amazing” i would just respond with “thanks but i didn’t lose this in a healthy way”. people would always look offended but if you’re going to make awkward comments about my body i’m going to respond
Once legitimately dealt with this from a DOCTOR. I lost over 50 pounds in a several month time frame and she asked me about it, I was afraid but after some courage I admitted I'd gotten depressed and relapsed into my eating disorder. I guess that didn't click because she kept congratulating me and suggested intermittent fasting...
Same thing happened to me when I was in a major depression as a teenager. I could barely eat so I lost a lot of weight and people kept commenting on how “good” I looked (even though I felt like I was dying inside)
A while ago here in Brazil, everyone was complementing a singer's weight loss, saying how beautiful she looked etc. She had cancer and was going through chemo. And yes, the fact that she had cancer was widely known.
My brother was obese so when he went to the ER saying he was having a hard time breathing the doctor wrote it off because he was obese. It took hours for them to run tests and when they got the results he was rushed to the ICU, his heart stopped when they went to intubate him. He had bilateral pneumonia that doctors wrote off as a common cold and his weight.
Fat patients are brushed off so often it makes me SICK. It makes my blood boil that you can trust someone to care about your health but they JUDGE YOU based on your weight FIRST before even thinking about treating you. Too many people I know have horror stories of careless doctors. I really hate the way people view obese people as if they aren’t people at all. F*ck. Those. Pricks.
There’s so many stories I’ve heard of doctors always having the same diagnosis being “lose more weight” towards overweight people having health problems and don’t bother to check for an underlying issue that doesn’t have anything to do with being overweight until it’s too late, it sucks
@@2bdaqueen268 They don't even consider their being an underlying problem that is causing the weight, it's always that the person is too lazy and needs to eat healthier and that will solve all their problems.
My daughter is rail thin naturally due to health reasons. She was a small time beauty influencer. Weight loss companies would contact her to push their products. She declined, stating it would be deceptive. People comment on how great she looks when she fights just to keep her weight the way it is.
I have gastroparesis, which slows my digestion and restricted my hunger urges. It is very similar to what Ozempic does. Gastroparesis made me unable to function, and I almost died because of it. I had to get hospitalized and get a feeding tube put in. This trend is absolutely disgusting, fatphobic, classist, and, above all, DANGEROUS. Shame on the celebrities using it and the doctors prescribing it to people who don’t need it.
My mom has gastroparesis. It’s no fckin joke. I hope you’re doing okay. It’s been really hard seeing her so thin and frail, the uncontrollable retching.
My best friend has gastroparesis, and I continually thought of her and what she deals with daily throughout watching this video. It’s so tactless and sad that people are seeking this to regularly occur in their GI tract daily to lose weight for the novelty of it. I hope you all and the loved ones with gastroparesis that were mentioned in this comment thread are doing okay and are finding ways to stabilize your overall health as you can. ❤
So true with the "eat everything on your plate" mentality. I'd feel such an immense amount of guilt for not finishing everything on my plate that I'd rather stuff myself until I was sick than feel that guilt for wasting food. Having to teach yourself how to listen to your body as an adult is difficult but so important!!! I wish everyone who's on their own food journey the best of luck
After my mother moved me away from my grandparents she and some other family tried that "eat everything in your plate", even threatening me if I didn't. My mother knew I couldn't eat that amount of food and I didn't. When I had my kids it took all I had not to bop folks upside their heads when they said that to my kids. Fortunately they already heard me say eat until just before you feel full then stop. I upset the South but I have no cares about their feelings. All of my kids are still thin while in their late 30's-early 40's. Did the same with my husband and he ended up losing weight.
My parents' approach to "finishing your plate" was a bit different. Their primary focus wasn't on eating, it was on serving. They were teaching me to consider how hungry I was before putting food on my plate, and making sure I only served myself as much as I actually wanted to eat - and in case of uncertainty just err on the side of having a little less since you can always go back for seconds. I prefer that approach, since it's still against food waste but focusing on honoring your body's hunger rather than force-feeding it. (Also if I did end up not funisihng my plate we'd usually just put it in the fridge and I'd have the rest later)
Not all people that are obese are obese for poor eating health habits. My eyes were opened when I watched people who were battling cancer with chemotherapy also had instant weight gain. We just saw a “fat” person but what we were seeing was a bloated body that is fighting cancer. Even after completing treatment it will take a long time for them to lose that weight. The worst part is watching a person having to fight back to health fight the fears of being at death’s door and then having to fight for mental health when their body no longer looks like it did before the diagnosis and they can’t instantly get back to that weight. They then have to deal with the social stigma of being “fat” and possibly even dealing with body shaming from people who have no clue what they endured and having to deal with depression on top of everything else. Which can make them become overeaters. Such a vicious cycle
had a friend years ago whose sister was diagnosed with cancer. she was thin her whole life and then gained a lot of weight because of her treatments. my friend would tell me how terrible her sister felt about it because people would express sympathy toward her not only because of her cancer but also because she gained so much weight. as if those two things were on the same level of “awful”. she unfortunately passed away and i think about her often, especially when people comment on others’ bodies without knowing the full story.
As a former obese person, like_ i consider 80-100 lbs over, over weight, do you really believe that someone can have 100 lbs of bloating? Idk that doesnt make much sense to me, not trying to be condescending btw im genuinely shocked
@@SweetDemonessit doesn’t necessarily have to be bloating per se, but many medications like corticosteroids can contribute to a more swollen appearance. They also tend to increase appetite so there is often actual weight gain as well. Weight gain and appearance changes like “moon face” in association with the use of steroid medications is relatively common.
@@SweetDemoness you can easily search that up yourself, yes, yes it is. And even if it's not just water weight, people with hormone problems can have issues getting thin, regardless of how little they eat.
I lost a lot of weight last year due to a month long anxiety episode. I was already in the range of typical body standards, but I got so many comments from people saying that I looked great. I would respond saying “oh, I didn’t do this on purpose. It wasn’t healthy” and people would get confused and uncomfortable, so I stopped explaining myself. I had never experienced such a “positive” response, let alone because of one of the worst times in my life. The topic of weight loss and beauty standards is so damaging when it isn’t seen from a critical view.
The same thing happened to me in college. I was so unbelievably anxious for almost two semesters but I lost quite a bit of weight (since I was too anxious to eat). It was probably the best I've looked in my life but my mental health was just absolutely in the toilet. It wasn't worth it at ALL.
ngl I live making those people uncomfortable. Shallow f*cks. When I was early on in my ED recovery I had trouble gaining weight because of what turned out to be intestinal spasms but everyone would hear that and only think about how I had to eat more, often telling me they wished they had my problem. I was told I'm lucky not to have organ damage, if you tell me you wish you had that problem then you should feel bad. And idk go to therapy smdh
I’ve lost a lot of weight either from grief due to the loss of a loved on or from periods of deep depression. It makes me feel uncomfortable when family members point out how thin I am and tell me to maintain that weight and not get fat.
This is the first person who gets it. I’ve had terrible side effects. 50lbs weight loss, called a miracle. Fainted regularly, lost most of my hair, just had my gallbladder removed… I stopped. We all need to strive for neutrality and then and only then can we deal with actual medical issues as they come
@warchiefpeebs u should listen to the podcast maintenance phase. They debunk medical myths and work to destigmatize fat bodies. As well as discuss systemic issues in medicine. Lots of similar ideas to what D'Angelo discusses here.
@@d.o.m.i. what a weird bot lmao. I can only imagine they're targeting black liberal creators? I don't follow shan that heavy but I don't know what else she has in common with D'Angelo
My mom, who is naturally very petite and has never been overweight a single day in her life, started semaglutide to lose 10lbs. She's kept taking it for the last two years to "maintain", and I'm honestly concerned because she seems underweight. Also gets handed out to her at a 'holistic med clinic'. 😐
People seem a lot more interested in my weight now that I’m bigger but nobody cared a few years ago when I dropped forty or so pounds over just a few months because I was literally starving, when I developed gallstones, or about how now that I struggle to keep normal amounts of food down. So, you know, people being flippant on the subject does kind of piss me off. The actual numbers on the scale are indicative of so little. BMI is pseudoscience. Our obsession with weight is so so vastly more unhealthy than being a little fat. BY THE WAY I almost forgot to say: you are serving a LOOK here! 👏👏
THANK YOU. I always have to pop up in these comment sections to tell people that BMI is junk science. The "obesity epidemic" is bullshit too. Obesity is AT MOST a risk factor for other things, but what's equally risky is the way fat people are mistreated and misdiagnosed by their doctors. The obesity epidemic was invented overnight, literally by people with financial stake in diet companies. The parameters for obesity were changed against the recommendations of researchers. We need a radical overhaul of the way we treat fat people.
I feel this. I have a degenerative swallowing disorder (lol go ahead and laugh it’s fine) and my weight loss has caused so many comments that suck because I’m sick AF.
As a pharmacy technician, the ozempic trend absolutely pisses me off. Because the diabetics who actually need it (and already can’t afford it) don’t have access to the thing that keeps them alive. There is an insulin shortage going on and more to come. Celebrities and people who use it make me so angry because of this. If you can afford to pay $1,000+ dollars out of pocket, you can afford a personal and meal prep. Because when people can’t get their meds, guess who ends up on the receiving end often their anger? Me! God I hate this so much
My pharmacists are a key part of my medical team & I appreciate them so much. I am extra work for them. I understand they always do their best & they constantly have to deal with other peoples' mistakes or administration BS. We've had to deal with shortages & it's extremely stressful all around. I'm sorry so many people take out their anger + fear on you. Pharmacies are so important to patients. I hope conditions in the industry get better & patients can get what they need.
Ozempic doesn’t keep people alive. That’s a silly thing to say. And people who are using it for weight loss have nothing to do with insulin prices or shortages. Don’t get me wrong, I find it frustrating that people are abusing the drug. But it’s a steeeetch to say ozempic is the same as insulin.
The thing that pisses me off is patients like me who are a great candidate for one of the FDA approved weight loss meds (BMI 40+, high blood pressure, arthritis, lifelong dieting, and pre-diabetic) can’t get approved for it because my insurance just won’t unless you have full blown diabetes. People online are like “well you can get it through so many online programs for only $300-$400/mo” like the average person can afford that!?!?!???
What drug are you trying to get coverage for? Saxenda, Zepbound and Wegovy would be covered in your case, but Mounjaro and Ozempic wouldn’t be. Zepbound and Mounjaro are the same medication (tirzepatide), Wegovy and Ozempic are the same (semaglutide). Saxenda kinda sucks because it’s a daily inject rather than weekly.
@@kentuckyroutezeroI don’t think most insurance covers any weight loss medications yet. It really should because it would save them so much money in the long run. Hopefully soon, or the price comes down. I need it for weight loss, but I live in Canada where it’s $225/month out of pocket and it’s not covered at all. I think because the government negotiates bulk purchases 🤷♀️ It still stings because I’m not rich, but I can swing that until I get to a healthy weight.
@kentuckyroutezero I have some of the best insurance you can get as a public servant and they absolutely don't cover weight loss programs or medications. Diabetes management? Sure! But not the way to get RID of diabetes. Just the meds to reduce its damage. It's beyond frustrating.
My doc also told I have to have full blown diabetes if I want ozempic covered, but weight loss surgery? She can get that for me no prob! 😵💫 like they either want you sicker or want you to do something even more drastic like surgery before they give you an expensive med.
@@jeishiikanzakithat sucks! Insurance is a scam. We pay so much and get the bare minimum! My insurance didn’t cover me at first for mounjaro (same indications you have and I was also losing my knees to arthritis. I couldn’t walk or exercise. I was PISSED when my insurance denied me and I complained to my my boss. She did some negotiations with their insurance broker, and they approved me. Have you tried reaching out to your HR? My issue has been that, it’s not available. I’ve been on it for 8 months and was doing very well, my blood sugars have been great, I’ve lost 25 lb, my arthritis has improved sooo much. I can take short easy hikes now. But since January, now I can’t get it filled anywhere. It’s always out of stock. So there are times I have to just go cold turkey, and other times, like now, I’m on a much lower dose than I’m supposed to be, because it was all my pharmacy could get. It’s been a journey with lots of pitfalls 🤷🏼♀️
I’m a pharmacist and let me just say you did an AMAZING job explaining the drugs! The only thing I would add is that even though Ozempic and Mounjaro may work the same way (GLP-1 agonism), because they’re different chemicals the body may react slightly differently to them causing different side effects or efficacy profile. Hope this helps anyone who was wondering why there was so many of these :)
@grumsta For sure but generally the weight loss is driven by GLP-1 agonism in these agents. As I mentioned, different molecules different clinical profiles due to nuances like this. But I also graduated in 2022 before Mounjaro was approved and specialize in immunology now so obesity is not necessarily my expertise. If you have more expertise in this area feel free to drop the info 😊
I am overweight and type 2 Diabetic. I use ozempic to manage my diabeties. It was all going ok and I was managing my diabeties pretty well. My docotr prescribed a higher dose to help me more and to ween me off another medication. Around that same time, my INSUIRANCE decided I wasnt sick enough to have it. It took 2 months to get my medication back, and in the time my dabetes started getting bad again. When I picked up my Rx (FINALLY) , my Pharmasist was like "oh these are hard to get. You want us to put in the request for your next one right now?" and I was like "yes please thank you mother"
I have a great team of pharmacists. They basically called all over the country to get me my migraine injectable when they ran out. The 2 weeks of me missing a dose has meant starting from scratch again, so 2 weeks cost me almost 5 months progress.
As a diabetic, with aggressive issues, Ozempic has been a blessing to me. Even with the constant gastric distress from taking it, I am thankful for its help.
Nobody mentions the gastric distress side effect. I had terrible issues when taking a version, Lantus, here in the UK. I came off it as it made me severely ill. I've struggled with my weight for years. Finally managing to drop some pounds through a restroctive diet and exercise. It's very slow progress and I have a long way to go. Xx
Last year my anxiety was so bad that I couldn’t go into the kitchen at uni because I had seven flatmates. I would have maybe one or two meals a day and I lost quite a lot of weight because of it. My parents were well aware of it and would even have to tell me to order in meals because I just wasn’t eating. But when I went home they kept commenting on how much thinner I looked. I would tell them I didn’t want them to mention it because I was essentially starving myself, but they kept insisting I looked good. Fatphobia is so insipid that something my parents knew was a concerning side effect of my mental illness was used as a compliment because I looked more like the beauty standard. It has nothing to do with wanting people to be healthy, it’s entirely to do with looking pretty.
Not being funny but one or two meals isn’t starving. It depends what you are eating. I’ve noticed that US portion size seem huge. Perhaps this excess has been normalised in the US?
@@eileenmcchrystal8471 If you eat 1-2 meals a day AND are rapidly losing weight, you are starving. That’s it, there’s no nuance in this situation. It does not “depend”. Automatically dismissing someone’s situation when they’re trying to vent about their experience because you think “that isn’t starving” is crazy… Not everyone needs to fast for weeks on end to be considered as starving themselves.
@@eileenmcchrystal8471Plus, how do you know they’re american?? How do you know if they eat huge portion sizes??? Like really what are you talking about bro 💀
@@ghstlymirage I said the portion sizes in the US are huge. This is normalised. If people eat those huge portions they will get fat, quite a straightforward deduction.
Recently a nurse asked how much I weighed, and then spontaneously told me that it was "sad" that a woman weighed what she did, someone who weighed significantly more in the waiting room, and it was worse because she was short. (She's not short..) This was my friend who drove me. I don't know if it's worse if 1) she knew it was my friend and thought I'd be ok with the gossip, or 2) she didn't know the lady was with me and thought it was ok to gossip about strangers, nurse to patient.
Girl, nurses really suck 😭 And it’s absolutely terrifying how they’re literally the first people who are supposed to take care of you and your life is in their hands. My mom works as a nurse and the things that her coworkers do (or mostly DONT do) are absolutely insane. Most of them are people who never grew out of their high school phase on a power trip. I’m never going into a hospital unless I’m about to die lol 😭
In healthcare, gossip has nothing to do with this specific HIPPA violation, since the friend was not her patient. it’s rude and unprofessional but not a HIPPA violation.
@@janniquegriszell9773 I think that comment was suggesting that, if she can read the room so little and has such poor boundaries, she's probably also committing that ethical violation. I don't agree, but I think that's what they meant.
There are two types of people who become a nurse: angels on earth who want to help people or the high school mean girl/boy. Sounds like you encountered the second one.
when i went on ssri’s a few years ago i gained almost 20 pounds. my psychiatrist profited off of my literal mental illness that i was treating (and my history with disordered eating) to get me to buy ozempic from her last year. i spent months feeling sick, barely able to hold down food. but she was excited because i ~lost almost all the weight i put on from my antidepressants!!~ i was so ashamed that i was taking it that i didn’t tell anyone until my psychiatrist couldn’t get another batch for a while and i felt so awful and finally told my therapist who realized that my psych was taking advantage of me and helped me work through that. i finally got a NEW psychiatrist who is absolutely NOT peddling ozempic to mentally ill people and i feel so much better and happier. it’s so upsetting that i feel like i was taken advantage of and i can imagine that there are many people who are in the same position now that i used to be!!!
So sorry to hear that happened to you, so happy to hear you have a better psych now!!! Thats incredibly dangerous and could (should) put their license in jeopardy.
girl I have only had bad experiences with psychiatrists trying to get me on medication that I was actively saying would be for harmful for me. They dont give a f*ck they only care about money
My grandma was diagnosed with diabetes and was prescribed Ozympic while in hospital. They prescribed it to her after she left the hospital and was told at the pharmacy that this is actually not available in pharmacies. This is how I learned about it. The pharmacist explained exactly THAT topic to my mom and grandma. It's like from a dystopian novel or a very dark comedy. So, my grandmother cannot get her medication because some celebs are using it and buying all of it before it even reaches the free market... Cool.
