Why wouldn't you take weight loss drugs?

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Seems like the whole world is taking them.

I'm occasionally tempted but worried about the long term effects... what would put you off?

Everything we eat is chemicals.

People who are overweight and develop weight related diseases often have to take medication which would have been "unnecessary" otherwise. Prevention is better than cure.

Lots of people want to berate people for being overweight or obese. Even if they are themselves. They don't do it for anything else.

I'm sorry to hear this but no drug is entirely risk free. The msm etc love to empathise the negatives because it's a click baitable story.

I would prefer it these drugs were more freely available; whether free or at a cost (hopefully much lower) and you could go to your gp like I do for my blood pressure and thyroid replacement medication.

To add by go to your gp I meant as first port of call rather than an online pharmacy. I know some do prescribe btw.

I am obese and need to lose several stone to help me recover from knee surgery - not even thinking about it at the moment. But the thought of injecting myself really puts me off, plus the thought that I have such a poor relationship with food that I would just gain the weight when I stopped taking them.

If there was a tablet to take instead, I might be tempted once I’d done some serious research into long term side effects.

@tobee I don't really understand your point?

I am not saying no one should take these meds. I am saying what they did to my mental health is why I won't take them and why I think it should be clearer that if you have pre-existing anxiety and decide to take these meds, it is possible that it may get better, and it is possible that it may get worse. I wasn't warned that there was any link at all.

According to today's i newspaper they might be on their way by 2026 in tablet form:

I don't want to be on any drug for life, unless it's an absolute necessity.
I don't need to (and wouldn't fit the criteria).
I don't mind exercise once I get going.

Side effects.

I understand that @NyeRobey. This is why I'd prefer it if they were more freely available through your gp who would be able to advise. If the gp knew about a patient's anxiety they could highlight this issue.

Having said that I believe there is a self reporting system for drug side effects and they get added to frequently.

The side effects reflux etc which I have already and Sharon osbourne and Kelly osbourne

This.

When I want to lose weight, I run more. 😰

I believe some people have been using Mounjaro since 2013 without issues, so there are some fairly long term users.
I think the celeb Ozempic faces are because they use the drugs when their BMI was already healthy. They want to be super skinny.

People talk about long term side effects, but a drug that has only been used for around 18 years. Means we actually don't know what the long term side effects are.

I think they should be reserved for clinicaly obese and only used in face to face clinic setting, even if this is a private clinic.

As someone who is having to take an even newer drug for health reasons. I would only take a medication if the pros outweighed the concs when takings drugs. I could possibly benefit from this drug, but it hasn't been mixed with the current drug I'm taking and wouldn't take that risk. There are many people who are borderline who it's probably not worth the risk taking but are currently taking it.

I'm happy doing it the old fashioned way (eating healthy and exercising.)

Money and you have to take them for the rest of your life or the weight goes back on

Mainly because while it can lead to medical issues, (thanks, knees!) I see my weight as a lifestyle issue not a medical one. I need to change my lifestyle.

I did cave in on one occasion and took orlistat but the side effects were horrible.

What happens when you stop. Ideally while on them you should work to understand nutrition, better health and learn triggers about over eating but if you don’t, or have a slip which leads to a weight gain and it snowballs from there it’s all been for nothing.

I would be interested to know about what help towards the above is available from the NHS, but if the answer is you get given a prescription and sent on your merry way then it’s just kicking the problem further down the road.

The cost and the more serious side effects. I am pre-diabetic too so it would be good to have some help but the cost is prohibitive for me.

Instead, I am following Michael Mosley’s Fast800 which I think is a better choice for a long-term healthier lifestyle, but requires effort and dedication for success.

Because I strongly suspect that the stark emotional emptiness feeling that I get on certain diets (which, admittedly, do stop me feeling hungry) is very similar to the dark MH side effects that some people on ozempic describe, so I think I'd be likely to experience untenable MH side effects if I took it.

Plus, I feel I have other options as I'm quite enjoying losing weight slowly through exercise and a (relatively) healthy diet nowadays, so I don't feel I'm in a position whereby it's ozempic or stay overweight (which essentially means I'm not the target market for it anyway).

I may well change my mind in the future, but that's my current thinking.

When I first heard about them I thought no way would I put that into my body/long term effects etc. But the more I read about them a and what they can do I'm lessening on the scare stories and genuinely want to try them. They have been around for long enough that this isn't a new drug, they have been safely taken long term for many years.

I have been losing weight in the last 6 months by fasting and it's been effective for me - but have settled into 2/3lbs a month and still have the willpower battle every single day. It feels like an uphill battle! My friends who are taking ozempic are doing it much more easily, almost not thinking about their food at all and are losing more weight than me consistently each month without issue. I would LOVE to know what it feels like to have that 'food noise' gone, just for a day!

Sadly I can't afford it and so I trudge on. My friends will hit their goals long before me and I'm trying not to be jealous and throw in the towel 😭

It's the cost for me. I can't afford it.

Also, for 71 years old, Sharon Osborne looks pretty good.

They may cause weight loss, but do they teach you about eating healthily? So will people go back to square one afterwards (I’ve seen this alot with people who do the milkshake- based wonder diets).

Also I don’t want to pump drugs into my body.

Fear of unknown long term side effects for sure. And short term ones. I have been tempted though, and gone through to purchase point more than once!

To be honest I think it's laziness, and the type of people who will take it are the type to just want an easy fix and will go back to old habits when they stop so it's really just unnecessary drugs in your body.
I would feel far more proud of myself, and safe in the knowledge I'm not using pretty unknown drugs, in achieving weight loss through healthy eating, exercise, committment and will power.