I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I'm left with even more questions.

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I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I’m left with even more questions.
By Ruth Marcus
June 6, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. EDT

“Well, if I gave it to you, you’d be the thinnest person I’ve ever prescribed it for.”

Thinnest was not a word I was accustomed to hearing in a sentence about me. I wasn’t fat, exactly, but I was awfully close — at 5 feet and 152 pounds, my body mass index was 29.7, just shy of the 30 that is considered obese.

More to the point, when I emailed my doctor on that day in October 2021, I was miserable. My clothes didn’t fit. Looking at myself in photos — on the unfortunate occasions when I was caught on camera — was painful. There were more than a few “fat pig” comments from readers, and while I pretended to shrug them off, those words hurt. The “slug” for this essay — what it’s called in The Post’s internal system — is “fat columnist,” but that suggests a level of breezy self-acceptance that I never actually attained.

I had been a skinny child. But Mrs. Whitman, my middle school home economics teacher — this was back in the day — was prescient when she caught me sneaking chocolate chips from the supply cabinet and warned that this kind of eating would one day catch up with me. It did. Puberty wasn’t kind to me, pregnancy was bad, and menopause even worse.

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. Huh, well that's one way of losing weight

My brother has Type II diabetes and he took it and lost 70 pounds.

I lost 20 pounds in the last 6 months by diet and exercise. I have another 20 to go to be not overweight. It's a hard slog. I gained it by quitting smoking 10 years ago and never was able to lose it.... until now.

I wish I could take a pill. But my doctor would never prescribe it for me. I have absolutely no medical issues and take no medications at the age of 66. So, I doubt she would prescribe it.

So back to eating low carb and constantly exercising.

[Wonder Why]

2. Ozempic hasn't affected my weight although it has helped mt diabetes.

The only thing that helped my weight was Jardian, a diabetes pill. Did nothing for my blood sugar but made me so sick, I couldn't eat anything and lost 12 pounds in the 3 weeks before stopping the medicine.

Been on Ozempic for a number of years ever since the VA went over to providing it instead of the (very painful and less useful) Trulicity.

[Shipwack]

3. Hmph... It's because of people like her that I couldn't get Ozempic.

I’m pre-diabetic, trying to keep from going full diabetic. Lesser means (diet changes, Metaformin pills, etc) had helped but not enough.

I was prescribed Ozempic, but after 6 weeks of waiting I still couldn’t get the drug because it was out of stock. He eventually prescribed another drug and it has worked out ok.

Now I just have to get through this damn Adderall shortage.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. I am Trulicity which is a sister drug to Ozempic

Trulicity has been out since 2014. I started this drug four months ago and I am down 20+ pounds. I had been on Victozia for over 10 years and my doctor wanted to make a change. My A1C was under great control before starting this drug (6.3) at the lowest dosage and went down to 5.3 on after two months on Trulicity. I have cut way back on the long acting and fast acting insulin and the blood sugars has still been good.

The husband of one my law partners lost 60 pounds on Ozempic.