The effects of Ozempic and other weight loss injections | 60 Minutes Australia

This is our snow room. It is one of my favorites. How much

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did you lose? 25 kilos. The Allure changes lives. Weight

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. A word that changes the game. This is transformational medicine, but does it come with the risk of ending life? He was only in it for 19 days. I can't accept that anyone can just stop living on 60 Minutes, the game changer for treating Parkinson's drug addiction, early onset ALS ERS, the drugs that are reshaping the world, are these drugs safe? We don't leave matches in children's hands, it has to be supervised, so how? How far would you go?

Why do we risk our lives to be thin? It's a retreat, something you're considering, blame it on our success as a wealthy Western nation, but we live with a huge problem. Our size. Many Australians are too big. Everyone knows that they are over

weight

. This is bad for our health, but fighting the Bulge is a fight that very few of us win and that is the reason why drugs like OIC are so in demand that they promise a quick solution to lose kilos even though they are not designed as weight

loss

remedies but as users. Be warned, the OIC hype is starting to fade away replaced by the reality that this and

other

similar medications are very risky and even deadly for much of your life growing up.

Debilitating pain was Shannon Natalia's unwanted but constant companion. It was an agony that she made worse by not knowing what caused it. or how to fix it, it feels like you're in a wetsuit and you fill the inside of the wetsuit with mud and heavy sand and then you have to walk around and find yourself in that wetsuit and it's just tied to your legs after years of Scratching your head in 2020, doctors finally diagnosed Shannon with lipedema, an incurable disease that had caused an abnormal buildup of fat in her lower body at first, pain management was limited, here's everything you need to know. happen, to be honest, the gym. and cold therapy recovery sessions provided minor relief, so this is our snow room, it's one of my favorite components for pain management.

Okay, this is the Himalayan rock salt room, but then Shannon's GP prescribed me OIC

injections

. I suddenly felt normal. my inflammation was gone, my pain was gone, all thanks to OIC, nothing had the impact that that had. OIC had originally been developed to treat diabetes, but when it was learned that a side effect of the drug was rapid weight loss, its popularity exploded. I wanted to show Guys, everyone starts somewhere, even if they're starting over somewhere. Shannon is proof that she is effective. Her transformation was incredible and not only her pain disappeared, but also the excess kilos that lipedema had inflicted on Cruy.

How much weight did they lose? 25 kilos of lipedema now. One of the many conditions that scientists believe could be successfully treated with drugs like OIC and with a great deal of excitement and fear on social media and the mainstream media, it is no surprise that these products have appeared on the drug label wonderful. Medications like OIC can also help curb drug addiction or ZIC could help people with early onset Alzheimer's if you could use it for all these applications it would truly be a miracle drug. I compare it to when the Ford was first invented and suddenly we had changes in transportation and the horse and cart broke down, professor.

Dr Katherine Zaris, MD and endocrinologist at St Vincent's Hospital, is amazed by the potential of drugs like OIC. Has she ever seen a medication explode around the world the same way empad did? Not really when I think about

other

points in the medical story, probably the introduction. Cher amazing, yes, but she is by no means a miracle in the making, while OIC and a series of similar weight loss

injections

show promise and also carry risk. Roy Webster is convinced of the cause. After his wife died 12 months ago Trish Webster had been taking an OIC medication called sax sender to lose a few pounds because he wanted to look his best at his daughter's wedding.

She shouldn't have left. You know, I don't think I should. Gone, she didn't deserve to be thought Trish was the first Australian death linked to these weight loss injections, but after 60 Minutes reported on it late last year, more families contacted us with similar stories about how they felt about regarding its weight. She used to joke. that you know you needed a big corpse to carry a big heart but he wanted to be healthy he wanted to live a long life and now I can carry his ashes in one hand Sue and Elise Ramsey want answers they want to know why 18 months ago, her loving husband and dad , Tim, died after receiving saxophonist injections, which made him decide he wanted to lose weight.

I think it was the prospect of, perhaps, walking down the aisle that she thought she needed to lose. weight Tim was a truck driver, it was a job that made exercising and eating well difficult, so when the 58 year old decided to try the sax sender to lose weight, Sue thought it was worth a try, so Tim went to the family doctor and asked him. She gave him the script and told him it would be good for every aspect of your life, it would protect all your organs and that's when she thought yeah, that sounds good to me.

Tim was sure the injections would work, but after only 19 days something was clearly wrong here the truck, could you come down and take you to the hospital? Please, thank you when Elise received this voicemail, you can hear the desperation in her voice, it doesn't sound like him, that's not her voice, she rushed him to the hospital. Tim was. complaining of severe stomach pain, but after a series of tests the doctors could find nothing. Miss, he mentioned to the doctors that he was taking sxender, yes? I asked him if that would be a bit problematic for his other medication and he said no. that would be fine so they didn't really say anything else about the sexual sender they just sent him home the next night tim's pain got worse he collapsed in the bathroom at home 40

minutes

of cp couldn't save him last november 14 months later After he died a coroner ruled that Tim's cause of death was undetermined, but Sue says that doesn't make sense.

I don't think anyone should die without an explanation. There has to be, you just don't expire. There has to be a reason for it. Tim's death and I think that's when we really thought that maybe Ender's gender had a lot to do with it. Yeah, you just don't expect to find your daughter kneeling in front of the dead bath ball. Leoni Margets knows Sue's heartbreak and Elise Ramsey feels her daughter Naomi Rooney, 39, died in June 2022 after receiving OIC injections. Naomi was desperate to be a mother and she had been told that she needed to lose weight to have any chance of getting pregnant.

She was very aware that she would turn 40 years old. and her options for parenting were running out as an experienced nurse. Naomi had expert knowledge of the drugs and the side

effects

of them, but something tragic still happened after she started using Zic. The first thing I thought in my head was that this can't be happening like this. This can't be happening, this can't be real, but things just happen so fast and then it was a terrible, terrible fight to get her out of the bathroom and onto the floor to try to do CPR, yeah, and she never regained consciousness, no.

Now, when a classmate picked her up, she immediately said that she had a blue mouth and there is nothing she can do to erase that image of her. Leon is angry at the ease with which Gotto Zenic's daughter bought him online after filling out a form. A simple questionnaire and a telephone consultation with a doctor. The deaths of Naomi Rooney and Tim Ramsay are being investigated by Australia's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, but their families want more and are demanding the TGA force doctors to do more to ensure their patients use medicines. as OIC safely, why can't you give them more than guidance?

Why can't you tell them not to do it? Ashley Keenan was the perfect patient to be prescribed OIC. The Canadian has diabetes and is overweight, but the medication he was supposed to save him. her life almost killed her. I was only on OIC for about 4 months when I ended up in the ICU, an intensive care unit for 10 days. Almost dead. Ashley suffered what is now emerging as a serious concern: a severe gastrointestinal reaction to the medication, doctors said. For me it was what they call a perfect storm. The side

effects

of OIC gave me pancreatitis. Pancreatitis made me vomit uncontrollably.

In fact, I remember one of the ER doctors telling me that he contacted every specialist he could so he could try it. To save my life despite her near-death experience, OIC had been doing what became famous because Ashley was losing pounds, but when she stopped taking the medication and returned home from the hospital, she quickly gained the weight back. . What she did next was confusing. I'm pretty embarrassed about this at one point, I actually went back on OIC because I hated how much weight I had gained and my doctors gave it to me and said okay, well this time we'll monitor it more closely and after two. months I had pancreatitis again, it made me realize okay, this medicine is harmful, doesn't that show the power of this medicine, even though you almost died, you came back for more?

I know it's not something I'm proud of, um, but it really opened my eyes to how I thought about myself and my body. Ashley's experience is what Dr. Mahia etan has been researching at the University of British Columbia. He has been studying the increased prevalence of gastrointestinal problems in people taking CICs and similar weight-loss medications. He found that he was concerned that we looked at the risk of gastrointestinal type conditions and I can say that on average there was an additional increase in risk of about 5% in absolute terms, why were these findings of concern to him?

Doctor, because although 05% is on the surface it may not seem like a large number when we consider that millions of people around the world are taking these drugs, this could translate into a relatively large number of people affected; In fact, Dr Etan estimates that the current OIC craze means several hundred people could be suffering life-threatening side effects, but in Australia, Professor Katherine Zarus says the risks can be mitigated with proper medical care. Are these medications safe? They are used with caution. Guided by experts, these medicines are very safe. Currently, OIC is only approved by the T GA to treat.

Diabetes It's no secret that medications like OIC are getting into the hands of people who shouldn't be taking them. Why should we be cautious? We have to be cautious because these medicines have adverse effects and these adverse effects can be really very serious, but this can be prevented, but you have to be told how to do it and a leaflet and an online consultation are not enough. It is necessary to consult an expert. These can be dangerous drugs if left in the hands of people we don't let. matches in the hands of children we should not leave these medications in the hands of people, it has to be supervised and I do not think the benefit of these medications should be overlooked, but they are not the silver bullet for weight loss Professor Robin Langum is the advisor chief physician of the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

One of her roles is to investigate adverse outcomes associated with the use of pharmaceutical medications. She is well aware of the tragic cases of Trish Webster, Tim Ramsey and Naomi Rooney, but she is cautious about whether their deaths could affect her. The use of OIC type drugs in Australia clearly every time someone loses a loved one in association with a drug they have been prescribed or a device they have been using it is absolutely devastating and you know we really feel a responsibility with every death. what we are told is investigated and if we see that it is necessary to change the message with the medication, the information that accompanies the medication or even, in some cases, recall the medication, then we have the power to do so, it is a recall. are considering withdrawing from the market is a very serious decision that we would make and we would only make it when the risks completely outweigh the benefits of these drugs.

Determining that will take time, but more immediately. Professor Langum warns of another danger today. GPS should only prescribe. OIC for diabetes treatment, not weight loss, but the reality is that many doctors simply ignore the guidelines. Our guide to doctors is to focus the use of the limited amount of asmic that is in the country, to focus the use of that OIC on patients. who have type 2 diabetes, why can't you give them more than guidance? Why notCan you tell them not to do it? Our work is largely guided by the legislation that we have and we don't have the powers to uh, mandate, less than 1% of people have these adverse effects, but it's still someone's father, it's still someone's sister, it's still being someone's loved one, absolutely, it's a very serious and very tragic issue for the families that are concerned and uh.

We don't want to downplay that at all, but there is another frustration facing the TGA: the success of OIC for weight loss has caused a global shortage of the product and that has led to an increasing practice by pharmacists of manufacturing their own product versions. medication for patients receiving semaglutide type compounded products this is not a zic this is not the medication that has been widely evaluated, tested and approved for its safety and effectiveness it is a dilemma what to do with the use of OIC and similar medications for weight loss Shannon Natalia is convinced they work.

The families of Tim Ramsey and Naomi Rooney say otherwise. For many of us, the desire to be thinner is overwhelming, but at what cost? What is your warning to people who would be watching this and I know they shouldn't be there. I don't think people who want to wear a dress to their school reunion or look good on their social media should wear this. I think that is a complete waste of time, dangerous and preventative. people who need the medicine access it. Hi I'm Emelia Adams, thanks for watching 60 Minutes Australia subscribe to our channel now for our new stories and exclusive clips every week and don't miss our bonus minute segments and full 60 Minutes episodes on .com. and the ow app