Every so often a drug comes along that has the potential to change the world. Medical specialists say the latest to offer that possibility are the new drugs that treat obesity — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and more that may soon be coming onto the market.
It’s early, but nothing like these drugs has existed before.
“Game changers,” said Jonathan Engel, a historian of medicine and health care policy at Baruch College in New York.
Obesity affects nearly 42 percent of
Patients have revealed the dark side of weight-loss drugs that are flying off shelves and making headlines for their fat-shedding abilities.
DailyMail.com spoke to five patients aged from their 30s to their 70s in the US, Canada, and UK who say Ozempic and similar medications ‘broke’ them mentally and physically.
They include a mother who went into kidney failure on her daughter’s birthday and a man whose sister begged him not to attempt suicide for the third time after Ozempic
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That’s the median weight loss experienced by people who take Wegovy, a drug from Novo Nordisk.
The new drugs are the first truly effective obesity medicines. They act by stemming people’s appetites and cravings for food. Many patients started by taking Ozempic, a diabetes drug also by Novo Nordisk that led to weight loss as a side effect. But many more patients are asking for Wegovy, which is approved for obesity. Mounjaro,
The drug behemoths behind blockbuster obesity medications Mounjro and Ozempic have been sued over claims that they caused stomach paralysis.
Personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan has taken the case on behalf of a 44-year-old Louisiana woman with diabetes who lost weight while taking the drugs, only to suffer later from severe stomach paralysis marked by such violent vomiting that she has lost some teeth and required multiple trips to the hospital.
The suit against Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk,
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