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I am on asthma meds. I don't need them to live, but I did like to breathe when I was younger. Ozempic is offering people painless weight loss that actually works. ADHD meds aren't needed either, but do improve concentration.

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> Ozempic is offering people painless weight loss that actually works.

The medicine may work, unlike those stomachs which experience gastroparesis upon taking it as a side effect. I'm not so sure I'd describe some of that as painless, though.

Side effects are on the order of 0.1% of people taking Ozempic.

So it's clearly offering a lot of people painless weight loss that actually works, not everyone but the vast majority.

I only know 2 people taking Ozempic and while it is working great for their weight, their quality of life is affected. It removes the want to eat so you almost have to force yourself to eat to get the bare minimum calories. Drinks they have been consuming almost daily for their entire life needed to be cut out (coffee and tea) due to nausea. The doctors just keep increasing the dosage making them feel even more depressed. Not to mention studies show that when they stop taking it they could see their weight go back to pre-Ozempic levels.

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