Yes, she was an otherwise healthy teenage girl, not overweight whatsoever, when she began taking Wegovy through Boots Pharmacy. She presented with life threatening starvation ketoacidosis, which is caused by severe low calorie intake.
From the article about this story (‘they’ is the A&E doctor who treated her)
“…the incident is part of a growing pattern, adding that “in the last month or two, every time [they had] done a shift pretty much [they] had some patient who, to a lesser or greater degree, is having a complication from getting these weight loss drugs” - in many cases from an online pharmacy or private beauty clinic.
“Without fail, none of them would fit the criteria at all,” they claimed, adding that another patient had “ended up going to intensive care” after obtaining weight loss drugs and presenting with pancreatitis.
Other acute doctors have raised similar concerns on social media.
“They're really dangerous drugs - it's shocking,” the doctor told C+D.
“It isn't people who need those drugs that are doing this. This is people with probably an element of eating disorder and body dysmorphia and that's what terrifies me,” they claimed.
“I just look at these young, beautiful girls. Oh, my word…it really makes me very sad,” they said.”