ozempic it is literally the hottest drug in the country right now but what happens when you stop taking it ozempic is part of a class of medications called glp-1 Agonist and they are really important safe and effective for people with type 2 diabetes but about 10 years ago in the world of obesity medicine it was discovered as we do with a lot of medications that there is a side effect may be beneficial and we're talking about the side effect of weight loss fast forward one of these medications recently was FDA approved for specifically weight loss
for people who are obese or overweight and of course like many medications they are also used off label specifically and exclusively and deliberately to affect weight loss these are usually injections they're given by the individual by the patients in the belly is the most common location once a week these medications are generally well tolerated but one of the ways in which they were work is by slowing the emptying of the stomach so one of the side effects not surprisingly can be GI nausea in some cases even vomiting of his diarrhea or bowel issues and in
rare cases pancreatitis and inflammation of the pancreas and these drugs do carry a black box warning for a rare type of thyroid cancer so what happens if someone were to take one of these medications like ozempic lose some weight and then discontinue or stop taking the medication obviously it's variable it's not one size fits all and individual results and long-term results will tend to vary but in general we have to remember that the conditions of overweight and obesity are complex chronic disorders that have a multitude of factors leading to them behavior is one of them
environment genetics even other medications that may be associated with weight gain are a big part of the picture so if you remove one of those variables in this case a medication that has been helpful in achieving weight loss it is possible if not likely that the person will regain some or all or even more of the weight that they've lost it depends on how much was was lost in the first place it depends on the person and their individual specific factors
