Ozempic: What do You Think?

[Rawley]

There are a couple people in my circle of friends and acquaintances who have had remarkable losses of weight with the help of Ozempic.

According to my understanding and a quick Google search, it is basically a Type II diabetes drug that as a side effect causes a loss of appetite, so it is being used massively as a "weight loss drug." The street price (cost if not covered by insurance) is about a thousand bucks per month. As with every pharmaceutical, there is a whole library of potential side effects, but all of them are rare enough not to be a serious concern for the "casual" short-term user.

I bring it up because I was at a bowling banquet last night and at my table were three women who have all lost 100+ pounds over the past year...one with stomach surgery, one with Ozempic, and one the hard way, just cutting back on food.

Has anyone reading this personally tried Ozempic? How did it go?

I personally need to lose some weight; 20 lbs to get to my "normal" weight, and 50 pounds to get to where is should be, according to the BMI "Bible." I can lose weight fairly easily - though I hate it - but I've never been able to make the permanent eating changes that will stabilize my weight. I just enjoy eating. So shoot me.

Unless you make those changes in diet and exercise, you are on this drug for the rest of your life.

 

[Rawley]

No MAGA should take any drug or vaccine.

Is this MAGA In the room with you now?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Is this MAGA In the room with you now?

 

[Rawley]

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[toobfreak]

Maybe there were none for you that you noticed at that particular time on your life.
But they were taken off the market for a good reason. They were quite dangerous.

Right. And now this Ozympic at 1000X the cost that just came out on the market is perfectly safe?
Those diet pills I took in the 70's had few listed side effects. Not so with this new crap, the list of potential side effects are a mile long.

And don't you think that 30 years from now, they will admit there are side effects to this stuff they did not see or admit to at this time, too?

Just the latest attempt by Big Pharma at making another killing.

 

[debbiedowner]

What eye problems? Apparently, I have not heard about any.

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/can-ozempic-affect-eye-health-here-s-what-ophthalm

Looked up Zepbound which makes you lose weight faster than ozempic and eye problems and law suit going on with them.

Zepbound Blindness Lawsuit [2025 Update] | King Law

Learn about the Zepbound blindness lawsuit, including NAION and other eye side effects, and read about a study linking GLP-1 RAs to severe vision problems.

www.robertkinglawfirm.com

 

[Invisibleflash]

There are a couple people in my circle of friends and acquaintances who have had remarkable losses of weight with the help of Ozempic.

According to my understanding and a quick Google search, it is basically a Type II diabetes drug that as a side effect causes a loss of appetite, so it is being used massively as a "weight loss drug." The street price (cost if not covered by insurance) is about a thousand bucks per month. As with every pharmaceutical, there is a whole library of potential side effects, but all of them are rare enough not to be a serious concern for the "casual" short-term user.

I bring it up because I was at a bowling banquet last night and at my table were three women who have all lost 100+ pounds over the past year...one with stomach surgery, one with Ozempic, and one the hard way, just cutting back on food.

Has anyone reading this personally tried Ozempic? How did it go?

I personally need to lose some weight; 20 lbs to get to my "normal" weight, and 50 pounds to get to where is should be, according to the BMI "Bible." I can lose weight fairly easily - though I hate it - but I've never been able to make the permanent eating changes that will stabilize my weight. I just enjoy eating. So shoot me.

Old gal down the street takes similar meds. She lost 80 pounds in 1 year. Nothing worked for her other than that shot. She pays $250 a week for 1 shot.

Not for me. I need to close pie hole and move more. Even if I wanted it, could not afford it

 

[Zafira Cherry]

Mortimer , thoughts?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

It will depend, I think, on the individual.

I know people who were hurt by it.

It saved my life, however, by very greatly slowing down the wastage.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I am bed bound and can't exercise much also lazy so don't like to do what I can. Doc put me on it cause of diabetes and weight I have lost at least 30 pounds, and my appetite is much reduced, I am still over 300 pounds but looking better. No side effects so far and Tricare pays for it. My A1C is great, and I barely use insulin anymore.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I am bed bound and can't exercise much also lazy so don't like to do what I can. Doc put me on it cause of diabetes and weight I have lost at least 30 pounds, and my appetite is much reduced, I am still over 300 pounds but looking better. No side effects so far and Tricare pays for it. My A1C is great, and I barely use insulin anymore.

Good for you, gunny. Have we lost Hoss?

 

[braalian]

Right. And now this Ozympic at 1000X the cost that just came out on the market is perfectly safe?
Those diet pills I took in the 70's had few listed side effects. Not so with this new crap, the list of potential side effects are a mile long.

And don't you think that 30 years from now, they will admit there are side effects to this stuff they did not see or admit to at this time, too?

Just the latest attempt by Big Pharma at making another killing.

I never said ozempic is without consequences

I actually agree that it hasn’t been studied enough to know the long term consequences and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it winds up banned eventually

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/can-ozempic-affect-eye-health-here-s-what-ophthalm

Looked up Zepbound which makes you lose weight faster than ozempic and eye problems and law suit going on with them.

Zepbound Blindness Lawsuit [2025 Update] | King Law

Learn about the Zepbound blindness lawsuit, including NAION and other eye side effects, and read about a study linking GLP-1 RAs to severe vision problems.

www.robertkinglawfirm.com

In other words, there is insufficient data to support their conclusions. That's why no one has heard of this. It is unproven. Thanks for supplying this!

I take Ozempic, so why worry about Zepbound possibly causing problems?

 

[toobfreak]

I never said ozempic is without consequences

I actually agree that it hasn’t been studied enough to know the long term consequences and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it winds up banned eventually

Yes, you see, my main beef is this:

• The stuff they prescribed in the 70s was a fairly simple analog of a chemical occurring naturally in nature. Its chemical action was pretty broad and well-understood.
• This new Ozympic stuff is the result of some crazy drug they dreamed up that took years and years to perfect that has a highly specialized effect in a very narrow way designed to get in there like a nanoprobe and do a very exact thing. It is far more foreign to the body with a lot more unpredictable things to go wrong.

I'm of the school of thought that the more you mess with something, the greater you complicate it, the more things you have to deal with. I'm much more comfortable with Mother Nature as the chemist rather than some druggist at, well, I just looked up the drug in a very detailed site of drug info on the stuff and they didn't even mention who developed it.

Novo Nordisk, never even heard of them, but it was invented for diabetes, they just happened to discover that it tends to also help with weight loss as a side effect.

 

[Mortimer]

Mortimer , thoughts?

I lost weight and it seems i will gradually keep losing some more i think it works