A brand new examine suggests a possible hyperlink between semaglutide—the energetic ingredient in weight reduction medication Wegovy and Ozempic—and suicidal ideas and behaviors. CBS Information’ @DrLaPook explains that the examine has notable limitations. pic.twitter.com/SKnwndFwXN
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In all probability, fats folks get depressed simply from not consuming. So in case you give them medication to make them not eat, after all they’re going to be extra prone to kill themselves.
I might additionally wager that fats folks have a lot decrease suicide charges typically, and so if folks drop some weight for any motive, they turn into extra prone to kill themselves.
After all, it’s potential this drug messes together with your mind in some way that makes it extra probably you’ll kill your self. This drug is messing with quite a lot of issues, and nobody actually understands what precisely it’s doing. I reckon in the long term, the fallout goes to be a complete lot extra extreme than a couple of suicides. Whether or not it’s most cancers, start defects, mind degradation, I don’t know, however I can fairly effectively assure the outcomes of this drug will probably be an actual nightmare.
CNN:
Folks taking semaglutide, the favored treatment for diabetes and weight reduction, usually tend to report having ideas of suicide in contrast with these taking different medication, in accordance with a brand new examine of a global drug security database. However the discovering is the most recent see-saw of scientific proof on the chance of despair and suicide tied to the favored drugs — and critics say proof that the medication trigger issues with temper is restricted.Semaglutide is offered below the model identify Ozempic when it’s prescribed for diabetes and Wegovy when it’s prescribed for weight reduction.
There is no such thing as a good motive for the drug to have two completely different names. It’s the identical factor.
The rationale they provide it two names is said to legal responsibility. Additionally, if one among these medication begins getting a foul identify, they’ll attempt to preserve promoting the opposite one so long as they’ll. Then ultimately, they’ll come out with a brand new, barely completely different model that can also be mainly the identical factor. (Prozac went by way of this entire course of when it was revealed it was turning folks into whole psychopaths; medication which are kind of precisely the identical as Prozac are nonetheless available on the market.)
As well as, quite a few corporations make compounded types of the drug. The usage of the treatment has surged lately, and research have proven extra promising results, together with reductions in kidney illness and most cancers.However suicide has been a long-standing concern with drugs that alter the need for meals. For some folks, shedding the pleasure and reward of consuming — and maybe different issues — creates a dramatic shift in temper and should improve the chance of self-harm. In 2008, the load loss drug rimonabant, which acted on the identical mind system that provides folks the munchies after they’re on marijuana, was withdrawn from use as a result of it elevated the chance of suicide. (The drug was by no means accredited to be used in the US.)
The affected person data for semaglutide already features a warning to be careful for despair and suicidal ideas. However there’s been conflicting proof concerning the danger of suicidal ideas and emotions with new weight reduction medication, together with semaglutide.
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The brand new examine, which was revealed Tuesday within the journal JAMA Community Open, checked out studies of suicidal ideas in folks taking semaglutide — whether or not for diabetes or weight reduction — in a database maintained by the World Well being Group that compiles opposed occasions linked to medication throughout 140 nations.
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The examine authors discovered what they describe as a disproportional danger of suicidal ideas in folks taking semaglutide however not in individuals who have been taking liraglutide. Once they in contrast studies of suicidal ideas in folks taking semaglutide with the chance reported with all different medication within the database, they discovered that the chance was elevated by about 45% in folks taking semaglutide.
The danger was about 4 occasions greater in individuals who have been additionally taking medication to regulate despair and anxiousness, suggesting that this group could also be at even greater danger for temper results with these drugs.
Yeah, persons are on every kind of tablets nowadays, having every kind of issues.
Good luck to them.
It’s not likely my drawback.
Issues are robust throughout, and in case you’re on tablets for weight problems and despair, possibly you need to have made higher selections.
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