I Tried Ozempic for Weight Loss and I Discovered 7 "Dark Sides" No One Warned Me About
Are you considering taking Ozempic to achieve your weight loss goals? There are lots of well-known side effects of the drug and other similar ones that are helping millions of people lose weight and get in shape. However, according to one influence, there is a "dark side" of the drug that many don't know about. Celina Myers (@CelinaSpookyBoo) is a social media influencer with over 3 million YouTube subscribers and Instagram followers. "Today, I'm going to talk about something that's quite controversial, and I think everyone has heard of at this point. And I think what people haven't heard about are the negative aspects of it," she says about Ozempic.
Her Doctor Suggested Ozempic Because She Is Diabetic
"My doctor brought up Ozempic to me because I actually am diabetic. It's used as a diabetic medication, but people also use it off-label to control their weight. I'm one of those people who didn't find weight loss in Ozempic, but I did see it helping me see food in a different way," she says in her post.
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A Friend of Hers Took It and Told Her Not To
She explains that a friend of hers recommended that she take it, attesting that it had helped her lose a lot of weight. But a few months later, she ran into the same friend and told her that she had also been prescribed the drug, and she told her not to take it. However, she did anyway.
At First, It Helped Her
"I started the medication. And to start, it was great. My sugars were controlled. I was feeling better. I really didn't lose any weight, but I found myself just, it was easier to make better decisions and not to binge eat the way that I did," she said.
When She Upped Her Dosage, Things Changed
"A couple of months ago, probably two months ago, everything started to change. I had tried to increase my dose from 0.5 to one milligram. The weight loss dose is usually around one milligram to two milligrams. That's what the doctors say, but it can happen at any of the doses. You start at 2.5. You do that for a couple of weeks. You raise up to five, then you raise up to one milligram. You just kind of get your way there. This one week, I decided to go from 0.5 to 0.75," she says.
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She Started Having Panic Attacks
However, a few weeks before she upped the dosage, she "changed," she says. "I was finding myself having actual panic attacks, panic attacks that I hadn't had since I was a teenager. My sugars were great. Everything was great. I wasn't sick. It wasn't an outside influence. It wasn't other medications. And I hadn't really chalked it up to the fact that it was ozempic. It started with these little panic attacks. Out of nowhere, I'd be in public, and I would feel the highest level of doom that I can explain."
She Couldn't Find These Side Effects on Google
She said that the doctors recommended that she increase her dose. "I decided to do 0.75," she says. "I don't know how I made it out. With Ozempic, you do get a tummy upset; you're not hungry, you're kind of nauseous, you're either constipated, or you're going to the washroom all the time. And these are things that I already dealt with in my own life," she says. "But this symptom, no matter how much I Googled, I really couldn't find it. So I'm like, it's not at that. But this week, I was not me. I found myself walking out of complete conversations into the bathroom where I would hyperventilate, shake on the ground, throw up, and cry in the shower, but have a rational thought knowing that this isn't me and this isn't what I could feel like."
She Reduced Her Dose and Still Felt Anxiety, So Upped It Again
The next week, she reduced her dosage, "but the feeling really didn't go away," she says. So, she thought that it probably wasn't the drug and upped her dosage again, "and things got worse," she says. "I'm someone who's always had real good control over how I feel and what's going on and and how I deal with situations."
She Joined Facebook Groups and Found Others Who Had Similar Feelings of Anxiety on the Drug
She joined various Facebook groups so she could talk to others about their experiences. "What I have found over this past month of research has really scared me and really blown my mind," she admits. "The amount of people who were like, 'Yeah, I've never had an anxiety issue in my life, and then I ended up in the hospital. Or people who are off it now because they were the happiest, most go-lucky people in the world, and they couldn't function as human beings," she says. "Now I'm starting to read that if you've had issues with mental health, this can be something to stay away from."
She says that some people try to blame it on high or low blood sugar. "It wasn't for me, and it wasn't for a lot of these people," she claims.
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She Is Going Off the Drug
She has been "drastically, drastically" reducing her dose and plans on stopping the drug altogether. "When you google this medication, they talk about a lot of symptoms. They even talk about some extreme ones like getting really bad pancreatitis or getting really bad gallbladder issues, or everyone's going to live differently with it. But for me, it's not worth it. Because these numbers of people who are dealing with the mental health aspects of it are growing and growing, and nobody is really talking about it."
Ozempic, "Almost Took My Life," She Says
"I wanna reiterate by saying, mentally, I am a very strong person. I'll have a little generalized anxiety, but honestly, who doesn't in the world? I've always been a very confident person, and I know if I'm feeling a certain way, I know how to make myself feel better, and I know how to pull myself out of it. But this past week, I will be honest with you, and I am so truthful when I say that Ozempic almost took my life," she claims, adding that she doesn't drink or take any other drugs.
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She Wants Others to Know About Her Experience
"I feel like all I'm seeing are these commercials like pushing and pushing and pushing this drug. And we're already dealing with such a mental health crisis as it is. And I don't know why this isn't being spoken about because the way that I have felt in the past couple of months is not the way I have ever felt in my life," she says. And if you enjoyed this article, don't miss 20 Incredible Ozempic Success Stories of All Time.
