Semaglutide drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are hyped as gamechangers for weight loss with demand driving nationwide shortages. As the government is restricting access to cheaper replicas - are the potential side effects worth it?
SBS On Demand. Singer Shauna Jensen says she’s always felt the pressure to be thin since childhood and being a performer on stage exacerbated that desire to lose some of her body weight. Jensen, who is in her late 60s, said she told her doctor that she was dieting too much but still wanted to lose weight. Her GP said to try the drug Ozempic, so she weighed up the risks and benefits and decided to give it a go after being prescribed it off-label.
"I started vomiting and diarrhoea, but when I was vomiting, it was actually really bad sulfuric, like rotten egg gas was coming up, and I had shocking pains to the stomach," she said. Wanting to give it another crack, the doctor suggested a lower dose, but she had the same extreme reaction — despite the branded medication being prescribed by her doctor. "That was a quicker response, and I was just so sick," she said. "I was scared.
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