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So if you consume content of any form, whether you're an avid YouTube watcher, a TikTok scroller, an older gentleman watching the Powerball in the news, chances are you've probably heard about a new diabetes medication that is literally sweeping the nation

By definition, Ozempic is an anti-diabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and an anti-obesity medication used for long-term weight management.

The active ingredient is something called semaglutide.

Some people say semaglutide, but in my opinion, they put the emphasis on the wrong syllable.

And there are several brands that make their own version of the drug and they all contain that important ingredient, semaglutide.

There is Wigovi, there's 1 called Ribelsis,

And then there's also this other 1 taking over called Moonjaro, which has something else.

So just some quick background information.

There are a heck ton of celebrities who are rumored, keyword rumored, to be on this drug currently.

Kim Kardashian, Adele, Mindy Kaling, Rebel Wilson, Elon Musk, although he may have admitted to taking it.

Basically any celebrity that you have seen suddenly become skinny within the last year or 2.

The rumors are that they are taking this drug.

I think it's kind of weird to like publicly state that somebody is on a drug, even if you say that you're not sure, because it definitely sways public opinion.

And you can't possibly know for sure who's taking it.

I've never seen anything like this drug in my lifetime, personally.

You know, it used to be my entire life walking through the checkout line at a grocery store reading People magazine covers.

It was always about celebrity breakups and their love lives and scandals, et cetera.

And now it's all about whether or not certain celebrities are taking Ozempic.

Many people, many, many people label this drug as an absolute miracle, a life-saving drug, both for people with diabetes and those without who just struggle with obesity.

It was created for diabetics, but has now evolved to where everybody and their almond mom who wants to lose 3 pounds are taking it.

that there is now a shortage of the medication.

Meaning the diabetic patients for whom it was originally created are struggling to get it because labs are running out of it, I guess.

And while the intro of this video may come across as though I'm judging people who are taking it or that I'm like opposed to this drug.

As you probably have noticed by the title, I took it too for 17 weeks-ish.

It was like November 28th of last year to March 21st of this year, I think.

I could be slightly off with the dates, but I think March 21st was my last injection.

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That is how I feel about Ozempic, my personal experience.

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I'm so tempted to start everything off with my long, boring, drawn out backstory of disordered eating and dieting and trauma and everything that led me to where I

I'm more concerned right now about warning you with some of like the physical and mental side effects of this drug, and I don't wanna keep you here for 6 hours.

So as I said, I started Ozempic, or a generic form of Ozempic, in November of last year, Because, surprise, surprise, I wanted to lose body fat.

I know that there is an entire community of people on TikTok who will label me as fatphobic for that, for wanting to lose body fat, and you Go right ahead and call me that, you make the rules.

Actively not wanting to be fat is indeed fatphobic.

Very quick history lesson of why I wanted to try this drug.

Like most overweight people, I have always struggled to lose body fat.

Calorie deficits literally don't work for me, At least not long term.

Sometimes they briefly work, but then they stop.

My patrons who see my vlogs, or even if you've just been around long enough to remember when I used to vlog on this channel, you guys know I work out.

Nothing makes a measurable difference, yada, yada, yada.

Well, this seemed like a very promising solution, but yet I was absolutely opposed to trying it, just because I've done this so many times throughout the last

years, where some miracle comes along and I'm visibly seeing people that I know lose weight and have success with it.

And I get my hopes up and I'm like, hey, that's gonna work for me.

So I'm kinda at that age now where I'm like, I'm not doing that anymore.

But I was also opposed because of hearing about the side effects.

Number 1, that you are not supposed to take it if you have a history of thyroid cancer, which I do, but I believe it's a different type.

So that 1 is like papillary and mine was medullary, or maybe it's, maybe it's vice versa.

Papillary, I had a papillary carcinoma, yeah.

So this drug causes, could potentially cause a medullary thyroid tumor.

That freaked me out, but my doctor was ultimately the 1 who kind of, not convinced me, but made me relax about it a little bit.

She felt like because I also have a condition called PCOS, which causes blood sugar and insulin problems and can eventually lead to diabetes.

She also has, at the time it was only 20 other patients on it, who knows how many of her patients are taking it now.

All of her patients were shedding body fat like crazy and doing great and finding success with no side effects.

And she really seemed to think it would be fine,

and she has, you know, first hand seen like the emotional struggle that I go through trying to get my weight off, so she was optimistic.

I also got some, I would say light or minimal pressure from family members, not anything super toxic, but it was more like, same thing, they see me struggling day in and day out and it

was kinda like, hey, maybe this would help you.

My doctor found a compounding pharmacy that made their own version of the drug.

They basically took the active ingredient, semiglutide, added B12, which also helps you lose weight, helps your mood, et cetera.

I was already getting shots of B12, so I'm like, okay, sure, let's try it.

Side note, I do not believe per se that my generic version of the drug is the reason that it didn't work for me, because like I said, all of my doctor's other patients are doing great and it all came from this compounding pharmacy.

Also, I found several doctors on social media who also promoted the generic form.

The active ingredient is the important thing of semaglutide.

So I got my first injection and immediately I got some very serious trigger warning side effects in the form of

Now I have suffered from a condition called lymphocytic colitis for like 12 years, I would say.

Maybe longer, I don't even know at this point.

So I am no stranger to that, but my colitis had actually been in remission since like late 2020-ish, around the time where I healed my gallbladder.

The colitis also went into remission around that time.

So to be in remission with colitis for almost 3 years, only to be hit with a literal poop storm the day after starting this drug, I was pretty confident that I knew it was the drug causing it.

And may I just say, if any of you have colitis or Crohn's or anything like that, you know the absolute agony, meaning pain that it physically causes in your intestines.

Well, buyer beware because that pain has nothing.

I mean, I spent years, every time I went to the bathroom when like colitis was at my worst, just hunched over in agony, moaning in pain, like salivating always about to throw up from pain.

I did not ever imagine it could get worse than that and on Ozempic it was worse.

But worse than that even, not only was the pain much worse, like I said, which I didn't think was even possible, but I was also suddenly unable to always control my self.

Meaning on more than 1 occasion, I pooped my literal pants.

It's funny, but it's not funny, you know what I mean?

Mind you all, friends, okay, this was the bare minimum dose.

you start off with before you work up to the therapeutic dose.

And this was the reaction I had to the smallest dose possible.

I mean, 24 hours a day, somebody's making a video about her.

I happened to catch some of her content when she was on Ozempic, and it was giving her stomach problems and gallbladder problems, and people didn't believe her,

and were like, oh, you're just using that as an

Now, my doctor was closely monitoring me.

There's no real way to be sure that it was the Ozempic.

I mean, it seemed like it was, but you never know.

And not 1 of her other patients were having this side effect.

So she was like, I don't know why it would be causing you so many issues.

And I do have a history with colitis, like

I thought it was the drug, but then I was like, well, maybe it's

not, I don't know, because I was really, really enjoying the other good side effects,

First and foremost, the reduction in my appetite.

Hopefully the disclaimer at the beginning filtered anybody out that can't hear things like that.

But I have been a pretty consistent 1700 to 1800 calorie queen for a good while now, but it's still always a mental struggle.

Like if I really let myself do whatever I wanted, I would probably eat like 2, 500 calories a day.

know, 1800 or whatever, 1700 is a struggle.

Cause some days we all have those days where we just don't feel like it.

So either way it was a mental struggle, but Ozempic gave me this quiet mind where I literally never thought about my calorie intake.

Again, I wanna stress, I don't have the best and most balanced habits when it comes to food, so I don't want you to take any of my advice.

I always track everything in my little Noom app, like just because I like to know, it's just a habit that I formed.

But I didn't have that food anxiety that I've had most of my life, where it's like, did I eat enough?

Oops, my stomach growled, like oh my gosh.

And it happened pretty quickly because of the appetite suppressing nature of the drug.

So at this point, I was still staying positive.

I was also sleeping really good, like literally within the first dose.

I remember laying down for bed that night and waking up in the exact same position, which is probably because it helps stabilize your blood sugar.

But the good parts were good enough for me to deal with the dysentery.

Hole on TikTok and I'm watching all of these women's fat cells just melt away, melting off.

I saw a lot of girls say like, oh I sleep so much better.

Some of them had side effects too, but I kept hearing this recurring thing, which is the side effects will go away as your body adapts to the drug.

The plan was to stay on that dose for 4, but we gave it an extra week because I was afraid to move up in dose because of the horrible side effects.

So 5 weeks on .25, and then when it was time to bump up to .5, we started doing the injection in my arm instead of my abdomen because I heard a lot of people on social media say that the side effects were much more tolerable in the arm.

And actually that worked for like 2 weeks.

It's kind of hard in hindsight now because I know I was guzzling Pepto-Bismol and taking Imodium like they were candy, but at least it seemed like it was making a difference.

So then my doctor asked how I would feel about switching to a more concentrated formula, meaning exact same drug, exact same formula, just a little bit more concentrated.

In my mind, that means less water, but I don't actually know, because I'm not a scientist.

The advantage of that would be you could inject the same dose with a smaller amount of fluid instead of like injecting a vial this big and it is more cost-effective because your vial lasts longer etc etc And I said sure and I said sure I said sure And as soon as we switched to the more concentrated formula, mind you, we kept the same dose equivalent.

So whatever the equivalent of 0.5 milligrams was in this concentrated formula, that's what we did.

And as soon as I switched to the concentrated formula, the Diarrhea came back full force with a vengeance, as well as a new symptom, gallbladder pain.

If you've been around for a while, you know my heinous experience with gallbladder disease.

You know how big the struggle was to heal my gallbladder.

This was, apart from the thyroid cancer, this was actually like my biggest concern.

There were a few reports of pancreatitis and gallbladder issues when they did the clinical trials for this drug.

And with my history, I was very, very afraid of this.

But again, I just kept holding out, hoped that my body would adjust.

And my doctor said that the drug delays gastric emptying, so food stays in your stomach longer than it normally would.

And so that could cause your gallbladder to squeeze more often than normal.

And I was like, okay, yeah, then it just needs to adjust to the new normal.

I started my milk thistle again, bumped up my selenium, my Dr.

Berg gallbladder supplements, continued my healthy diet, continued my exercise.

I'm like, it's fine, it'll pass, it's fine.

Now this is probably early January-ish, okay?

And to add a beautiful layer of frosting to this poop cake, I had not lost in 6 weeks 1 single ounce.

Even with the significant reduction in my appetite, the stabilization of my blood sugar, and the basically having dysentery, I would think the diarrhea alone would make somebody lose an ounce.

But like I said, I've been down this road a million times.

All of these people in my family, yes, I have multiple people in my family who are on this drug, who are at like 20 pounds off by the 6 week mark.

All these people on TikTok who had lost 20 and 30 pounds by the 6 week mark, They are all unicorns.

And I knew it would be harder for me because of my thyroid problems, my PCOS, and my daddy issues.

So, still staying positive at this point.

End of January, it was time to bump it up to .75.

And in hindsight, I see now that that is when the anxiety started.

The good sleep I was getting in the beginning instantly vanished, like that night.

And it was replaced by my normal insomnia, but 800 times worse.

My Apple Watch, my Apple, I wish I had it sitting here.

It would tell me, like, you got 3 hours of sleep last night.

My heart rate would constantly spike throughout the night and it was all anxiety.

I would be dead asleep and just wake up gasping from impending doom.

And Again, this is hindsight, I didn't really attribute this to the drug.

I've always had anxiety, I've always had depression, I've always struggled with sleep, and

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