Glp1 agonists Ozempic® and Wegovy® semaglutide

Medicines
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Saw a story on CBS this morning about a woman who has a family history of T2DM and trouble losing weight. Her doctor prescribed her a GLP1 agonist. Everything was fine. She lost weight and cravings for food

Out of the blue she passed out. Husband rushed her to the hospital, at some point her daughter was informed that her Mom might not make it.

She was stabilized and it was determined her colon had died. They did a colonectomy and she now has a colonostomy.

I don’t mean to scare anyone. It was the fact that it came on suddenly.

I don’t do Facebook but here’s the video

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Thanks for sharing. Differently something to be cautious about.

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I get the intention behind sharing this, but there is a reason this made the news - it’s so rare. These drugs have been out for a long time, so the researchers have lots of data on side effects etc. I take Ozempic (and have used Victoza and Trulicity) and am not going to lose sleep over this.

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