Re: Weight Loss Drugs
Reply #18 –
It may be a low blood pressure issue having lost weight.
The exact same thing happened to a friend of mine, lost 60kg down from 150kg to 90kg then developed fainting spells. Of course at 150kg he had high blood pressure and was put on beta blockers, which they didn't adjust after he got down to 90kg. It wasn't until he started monitoring his BP at home daily they worked out it was unstable, they adjusted his meds and now he's all good.
The thing is those kids taking Ozempic do not realise that you apparently are time limited on how long you can stay on the high weight loss dose. So if you do not make adjustments to lifestyle or diet while you getting the benefit chances are the effort will be undone when you come off. Also there is a lower long term "housekeeping" dose but it costs as much as the weight loss dose even though it's only about 20% of the full dose. If you do not have diabetes you'll pay $300 - $400 a month forever, high or low dose, so changing lifestyle and diet should be a big feature of a course!
Ozempic and Wegovy slam your metabolism, if you are previously monitored your HR and BP those it works for will find both up about 15%, which ironically delivers about a 15% weight loss. There is some irony taking this if you are a cardiac patient, because you are probably already on a medication to slow your heart rate and reduce BP. So it should be done under extreme medical supervision.
Because the drugs weight loss is 15% from everywhere there are high risks for people who are just a little overweight or already slim and use it to shred, the healthy fat stores around livers, kidneys and heart might already be low even for some obese people. Lose too much of that healthy fat layer and it can be terminal, your organs are basically starving even though you appear healthy!
There isn't an Ozempic "high weight loss dose". It starts with a weekly 0.25mg dose that, subject to your doctor's approval, increases to 0.5mg in week 5. Higher doses - up to 2mg - can be administered or your doctor can reduce the dosage depending the patient's blood sugar levels, vital signs and/or side effects. Ozempic can improve blood sugar levels in Type 2 diabetics provided its use is accompanied by an approriate diet and exercise regime. One of the side effects of Ozempic can be mild weight loss. Its use does not result in dramatic weight loss.
Wegovy is the weight loss drug made by the same company. It contains the same active ingredient but in a much higher dosage. Apart from that, I don't know anything about Wegovy.