Thousands Sue Weight Loss Drug Manufacturers With Serious Harm AllegationsBy Anthony Yates Thousands of people have come forward alleging serious harm caused by GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Those products include Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. According to a report by USA Today, at least 4,400 people have filed lawsuits since the first was filed in 2023. Those suits are now part of a consolidated federal and state litigation and target two drugmakers: Novo Nordisk, which manufactures Ozempic, and Eli Lilly, which makes Trulicity, Mounjaro, and Zepbound. The companies reportedly said they refute the allegations and will defend the safety of their products. The USA Today report focuses on three troubling cases in the growing lawsuit. 63-year-old Todd Engel was using Ozempic to manage his diabetes. However, he told the outlet that he lost vision in one eye after using the drug for four months. His medication reportedly never came up as a potential cause of his sight loss, and he lost vision in his other eye months later. 72-year-old JoHelen McClain reportedly used Wegovy in November 2023, aiming to shed a few pounds. In March 2024, she heard a noise like a "balloon popping," which she later discovered was the sound of her colon rupturing. USA Today also interviewed Mark Smith. He told the outlet that his wife, 62-year-old Robin Smith, was taking Mounjaro for weight loss. She reportedly visited the hospital twice for vomiting. Her doctor suggested she stop using the drug, but her problems persisted. Days later, doctors diagnosed her with Wernicke's encephalopathy, which the outlet explains is a neurological condition caused by a lack of thiamine or Vitamin B1. It's often linked to malnutrition. The outlet points out that an estimated 12% of Americans use GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and that the plaintiff's account for a small percentage of users. USA Today also cites a 2024 court filing by the two drug companies. They explain that the known risks are reflected in FDA-approved labeling, which the FDA has reviewed more than 40 times. USA Today details a Gallup Study, which claims that the usage of GLP-1 drugs doubled between 2024 and 2025.Chief of Research and Development at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Ziyad Al-Aly, reportedly stated that no medicine is risk-free. However, he believes the benefits outweigh the risks for most patients. Legal challenges are expected to take several years. ARTICLE SOURCE: https://screenrant.com/thousands-sue-weight-loss-drug-manufacturers/
....and things are great! Not craving any carbs, my overall appetite is down, i am down 5 pounds from 178, and i've noticed that my chronic pain is lessened. So much so that i think i can finally stop taking Ibuprofin [and more recently Tylenol]. I've been taking a lot of ibuprofin for literally decades to address pain and infalmmation. And while i still have serious Lumbar spine issues, and other joint pains too, i think i can finally be done with the whole otc mess. I still vape, but at least i am using an organic product and my goal is to get off of it. I also completely eliminated seed oils from my diet, which are highly inflammatory.
i used to do keto for a good two years and lost like 50 pounds but i got off track and got to eating a carb heavy poisonous SAD again. My last visit to my doctor showed my cholesterol level high and he wanted me to go on prescription drugs to fix it. I am 63 years old and the only pharmicutical drug i take is Trazodone for sleep. The last thing i want is to be drugged up and addicted to pharmicutical drugs in a system that is designed to make you sick and keep you sick and returning for more drugs. So last week i decided that the best way to fix my body's problems is through diet and begin walking again.
My inlaws, nice people but they are now deceased. The dad had diabetes and he died from dementia. The mom she was obese and she died from dementia. The common denominator is them listening to their doctors and doctors on TV thinking they were the experts. They didn't eat red meat but they ate pork. They didn't eat butter, but they ate margarine. Everything else they ate was crap loaded with carbs and bad oils. They were on a lot of prescription meds brcause that's how you fix your body's problems, and that's the sick end game with the entire SAD/Pharmaceutical drugs cycle. I know that i am having some brain fog issues and its probably diet related. I am hoping i can reverse the inflammmation in my body that is causing all my issues, and resolve them with the Carnivore diet. Honestly, i don't give a rip what others say about my dietary choices and i am not even going to tell my doctor because he will likely try "correcting" my thinking. Anyways, i am a happy carnivore now!
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