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0BonneMaman0 · 2024-09-07T13:29:38+00:00

Seems like the whole world is taking them. I'm occasionally tempted but worried about the long term effects... what would put you off?

Florafleur · 07/09/2024 17:53

tobee · 07/09/2024 16:50

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.

What do you mean? ‘Everything we eat is chemicals’?

spuddy4 · 07/09/2024 17:58

Genuinely interested to know how many people saying they are worried about the long term side effects had a covid vaccine? I'm not being goady I'm interested in why people took the vaccine without worrying but draw the line at a weight loss jab?

MigGril · 07/09/2024 18:15

spuddy4 · 07/09/2024 17:58

Genuinely interested to know how many people saying they are worried about the long term side effects had a covid vaccine? I'm not being goady I'm interested in why people took the vaccine without worrying but draw the line at a weight loss jab?

I took the covid jab after weighing up the risks though like any other medication. I had already been quite ill with covid before the first vaccine was offered so didn't want to have it again and risk being in hospital. Which I narrowly avoided the first time.

Taking a weight loss drug is a choice and although I need to lose weight. I don't see it as that life and death, because I'm not that over weight and have lost weight with dieting before.

MrsTerryPratchett · 07/09/2024 18:15

Flopsy145 · 07/09/2024 17:45

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.

Are you thin?

Frequency · 07/09/2024 18:16

spuddy4 · 07/09/2024 17:58

Genuinely interested to know how many people saying they are worried about the long term side effects had a covid vaccine? I'm not being goady I'm interested in why people took the vaccine without worrying but draw the line at a weight loss jab?

For me it's about balance. I have asthma so the potential side effects of the (tested) vaccine were less worrying than the possible side effects of covid.

Ditto weight loss drugs. Heart problems, diabetes, and strokes are in my family history so the potential side effects of a tested drug are less worrying than the known side effects of obesity. I also have a history of ED which makes losing weight from calorie counting problematic.

Pantaloons99 · 07/09/2024 18:18

I don't take. I have multiple serious health issues and have to take loads of meds. Some side effects they just never record or listen to with these things.

I have extensive experience along with multiple others of taking a medication - knowing full well it's causing other severe side effects and just being fobbed off. I'd never do it if there was another way.
With this situation, there is another way!

CelestialNexus · 07/09/2024 18:22

AhBiscuits · 07/09/2024 15:47

Are you 71 and have had fucking loads of cosmetic surgery? If not, your fears of looking like Sharon Osborne are likely unfounded.

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MissUnclutter · 07/09/2024 18:23

Bellyblueboy · 07/09/2024 17:24

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

😂 who told you that?

ReadWithScepticism · 07/09/2024 18:24

I don't want to be cornered into taking medication in order to compensate for a totally dysfunctional food landscape, in which the food industry is able to sell me all sorts of semi-addictive crap and I am supposed to take drugs to suppress or distort my normal appetite in order to be able to cope with the crap it is pushing at me.

I'm amazed at all the threads on MN about these horrible drugs. I don't think MN should be facilitating this deep dive into the self-injection of over-the-counter drugs.

What is supposed to happen when you stop injecting and are still exposed to our dysfunctional food industry?

A decade or so ago people had their jaws wired to cope with all this. Now that is unfashionable and people make themselves nauseated with drugs instead.

MissUnclutter · 07/09/2024 18:24

spuddy4 · 07/09/2024 17:58

Genuinely interested to know how many people saying they are worried about the long term side effects had a covid vaccine? I'm not being goady I'm interested in why people took the vaccine without worrying but draw the line at a weight loss jab?

Well yes, you have a valid point there..

Gone12 · 07/09/2024 19:21

DH has suffered terribly on Ozempic for diabetes control and it has put me off going on weight loss meds...

Uncontrollable diarrhoea and bloating, especially at first.

Severe constipation.

Nausea, excessive belching and gas

Very aging on the face.

Higher risk of thyroid or pancreatic cancer.

Chewbecca · 07/09/2024 20:07

MissUnclutter · 07/09/2024 18:24

Well yes, you have a valid point there..

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I don’t think it is a valid point, the two drugs are not comparable.

Theoretically I could lose weight by myself (obviously I like food too much to do so!). Weight loss drugs are kind of a luxury. I couldn’t stop myself getting a life threatening dose of covid (or passing it onto those weaker than me) the vaccination was not a luxury. Worth the long term potential risk much more IMO.

CuteCillian · 07/09/2024 20:16

I can't find any study linking semaglutides to an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
Indeed The pancreas helps control sugar levels in the body, so there may also be a link between our high-sugar diets and the increase in cancer

Iamanunsafebuilding · 07/09/2024 20:24

@Florafleur What do you mean? ‘Everything we eat is chemicals’?

Everything in the world is a chemical apart from light and electricity, so everything we eat is made from chemicals. People often seem to group 'chemicals' as harmful but literally everything you eat, drink, smell and touch is a chemical.

MissUnclutter · 07/09/2024 22:25

@Chewbecca well I do! 🤷‍♀️

Flopsy145 · 07/09/2024 22:56

MrsTerryPratchett · 07/09/2024 18:15

Are you thin?

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Had a c section a few weeks ago so not as thin as I'd like to be right now 😂 but have fluctuated between a 10-14, never been super thin nor over weight. Why do you ask?

FusionChefGeoff · 07/09/2024 22:56

Previous eating disorder means I'm insanely over invested in all the threads but my rational mind knows they could trigger a relapse.

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0BonneMaman0 · 07/09/2024 23:02

MrsTerryPratchett · 07/09/2024 14:51

Side effects. But I'm lucky that LCHF works for me. I have a system. People who don't, it's difficult. I think I would have been tempted before I met @BIWI and the gang on here.

What's LCHF?

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0BonneMaman0 · 07/09/2024 23:04

StMarieforme · 07/09/2024 15:41

No evidence of long term side effects.

Ozempic face.

I would NOT want to look like Sharon Osborne I'm afraid.

Surely she just needs to stop taking them though?

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0BonneMaman0 · 07/09/2024 23:05

NyeRobey · 07/09/2024 16:41

I did take them (just 3 weeks) and had to stop as I was one of a small number of people that it appeared to horrendously exacerbate my existing anxiety. I had panic attacks and debilitating insomnia.

There is growing evidence of this and it isn't currently listed in the typical side effects. People have died. I keep coming on these threads to warn people especially those with tendencies to anxiety, that if they do take these meds and experience anxiety symptoms worsening, it could well be the meds.

www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200201186/as-ozempic-use-grows-so-do-reports-of-possible-mental-health-side-effects

HRT does this to me. This is why I'm reluctant to try WLD.

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0BonneMaman0 · 07/09/2024 23:06

tobee · 07/09/2024 16:50

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.

True.

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giggly · 07/09/2024 23:12

At 57 and morbidly obese the long term possible side effects in no way out way the very real risk of a stoke / cardiovascular disease/ fatty liver etc so I take it and have lost weight every week and 2.5 stones down in 11 weeks

User6874356 · 07/09/2024 23:20

tobee · 07/09/2024 15:17

I'm on an ordinary weight loss diet right now. It's not teaching me anything I didn't know already about healthy eating either.

I started on a healthy eating low calorie diet. I have a lot to lose though so I started mounjaro after losing a couple of stones. I’ve lost a further three stones on mounjaro. I think it’s really helped me keep going- it’s been nearly a year so far and I still have more to lose

Copperoliverbear · 07/09/2024 23:46

Side effects
Unknown long term effects
You'd probably put the weight back on once you stop
You are better off with a healthy balanced diet.

LibbyL92 · 07/09/2024 23:47

MrsTerryPratchett · 07/09/2024 14:51

Side effects. But I'm lucky that LCHF works for me. I have a system. People who don't, it's difficult. I think I would have been tempted before I met @BIWI and the gang on here.

Is the low carb boot camp still going? I see to only be able to see posts from May 2024..

I’m at breaking point with my weight and how it’s affecting me mentally. I did so well with LCHF and need to get back on it.