What made you decide to ignore the potential health issues down the line and start injections?

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I'm not being goady here.

Just feel that on some days I should totally do this but then on others it's nuts.

I don't know how you can't worry about damage to your system.

I'm 3st overweight

hang on whilst I dig out my bingo card

The potential health issues I was already facing down the line.

Because being fat was more of an issue.

What potential health issues are you referring to?

Also, are you aware of the potential health issues of obesity?

Can you read?
I have said I'm not being goady!

Just finding it hard to come down one way or the other with this.

• Gastrointestinal issues: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, heartburn, indigestion, and bloating 

• Kidney problems: Kidney failure or other kidney problems 

• Gallbladder problems: Gallbladder disease or other gallbladder problems 

• Pancreatitis: Pancreatitis or other pancreatitis-related issues 

• Hypoglycemia: Low blood sugar or other hypoglycemia-related issues 

• Eye problems: Small risk of developing eye diseases 

• Thyroid problems: Thyroid tumors or thyroid cancer 

• Other serious side effects: Increased risk of fracture, recurrent fever, yellow eyes or skin, and psychiatric events like depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation

Yes of course I'm aware of the issues with obesity. Hence considering the drugs!

Weight loss injections have been used for over 20 years for diabetics with minimal concerns. We've now had multiple studies done which show the rates of pancreatic issues are same to obese general population, the thyroid study was done on rats and they've found no significant concerns in any studies on humans and instead the GLP1 injections are shown to support reducing inflammation and helping restore heart tissues.
For me, it was understanding why I need the medicine rather than if I need it. Without it, I'm eating myself to death. Not because I want to but because physically and mentally I am unable to stay on a calorie deficit or loose weight consistently.
If I had less to loose and I was capable of being consistent without them then that would be the deciding factor for me. These are a prescription medicine so like anything else it's about the why you might need them and then the risks of that Vs the drugs.

Everything gives you cancer. Bacon, swimming in the sea, clothes, breathing in the air.... I'm not spending my life in fear of what may or may not come from a drug with 20yrs efficacy already proven and monitored.

I already take another drug for chronic migraine which is brand new and barely proven in terms of medicinal longevity.

I'm very fat, that in itself brings huge risks to my health.

Time to change it up.

If all you need to lose is 3 stone though, do you even qualify for the drugs?

Maybe focus on the risks of obesity
The 40,000 who due in the UK annually due to obesity
Do your own research, it's not difficult

Thank you for your sensible answer x

Now go look at the warnings on something like paracetamol, ibuprofen or anything you take that's prescribed for you.

It's incredibly easy to decide op if you are rational and have the ability to do some research. You are working yourself into a tizzy, but God knows why. Why do you think?

If all you need to lose is 3 stone though, do you even qualify for the drugs?

BMI is 31 and obese so, yes online O do. That seems to be how 90% of people are getting them.

@Luminousalumnus why is it tizzy ish to consider health risk?

2 stone is the difference between having a BMI over 30 and a BMI under 25 for me.

@Luminousalumnus and it may have been incredibly easy for you to decide, but I've been mulling this over for some time.

i lost 3 stone and the benefits ( knee pain gone , I can exercise, I don’t snore) etc are so much more than potential risks that you mentioned . I read the full research paper when deciding whether to not to do it.

I think you’ve got lots of snippy answers because you asked why people “ignored” potential health issues. If you’d asked how people “weighed up” the risks of using weight loss injections versus not, you would have got more helpful answers. I have to take lots of medicine, all with potential side effects. I have to weigh up these risks, which is not the same as ignoring them.

Current health issues that can be prevented. Like diabetes, high blood pressure, risk of heart disease, attacks and stoke and improved physical and mental health.

easy decisions

Fair x

Everything has a risk. Why worry about something that may never happen. Most of those side effects you listed are rare and obviously it would affect users who have pre-existing health conditions more than those who don't. Think about all those who die from flu and paracetamol and other medication use.

I've been on mounjaro 3.5 months and never had a single side effect, as someone who had inflammation, insulin resistance, pre-diabetic, high blood pressure, IBS it has reversed all these for me. Blood pressure went from 145/92 to 110/78 in weeks. No more aching muscles, clicks joints, breathlessness and that's only after a stone loss. I was 13 stone starting BMI 31.1 and now I'm 11 stones 9lbs bmi 29.6.
I'm a registered health professional Biomedical scientist manager, it was a no brainer for me. Don't let your fears win.

I don’t know why people are being so defensive and nasty. It’s ok to be wary and to question injecting yourself with something that does things to your hormones and stops you eating. And we are still waiting for long term studies. Of course it feels bizarre. As others have said, it’s weighing up the cost of your obesity/comorbid problems. It’s a possible health issues vs definite health issues being overweight.

One thing is to make sure once you’re on it you really overhaul your diet and lifestyle so that you don’t have to keep doing it again. Good luck.

I haven't used them.

But I would imagine two main reasons are:

A) being overweight brings it's out risks, which may outweigh the risks of the drug.

B) Everything has risks and side effects. Look at the leaflets coming with simple things like paracetamol etc.

I'm not overweight enough to be prescribed by GP, so I haven't really considered it too seriously.

But if you are, it's important to be as well informed as you can be, which is what you are doing.

Good luck

I'm also on the fence about using them and some days think that's it and others there's no way I'd do it!
For me though it's more about side effects and long term cost or what will happen when I stop taking them.
I have a bmi of 32 so would qualify. Long term being obese is worse for me and that in itself is a massive risk