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Taking Ozempic? Here Are Side Effects You Should Know - BuzzFeed News
Jan 27, 2023 1 min, 0 secs
“Any rapid weight loss will decrease fat volume in many parts of the body, especially in the face, resulting in sagging tissue and skin,” said Dr. Lyle Leipziger, chief of plastic surgery at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Recent articles in People and the New York Times note that the unwanted side effect can be fixed, but often with expensive fillers and cosmetic surgery.

“The goal of weight loss is to improve health,” said Dr. Vadim Sherman, medical director of bariatric and metabolic surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital.

So in 2021, the Food and Drug Administration granted another approval, this time for weight loss but only in people with a body mass index of 27 or higher with at least one related health condition and those with a BMI of 30 or greater.

Both Wegovy and Ozempic belong to a class of medications known as GLP-1 agonists, which work in several ways, including suppressing the GLP-1 receptors in your brain to pull back your appetite.

This brings up an important point: You should know which drugs you are taking and read their package inserts, said Dr. Kelly Johnson-Arbor, a medical toxicologist and interim executive director of the National Capital Poison Center.

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