When 28-year-old Danielle K. Gained around 50 pounds during the pandemic, she tried everything to drop the weight:
Intermittent fasting, working out consistently, and focusing on a balanced diet. Nothing made a difference on the scale or in the mirror.
Around the same time, Danielle's sister, who has type 1 diabetes, started taking a prescription drug called Ozempic-perhaps you've heard of it?-that has a known weight-loss side effect.
While the drug is FDA-approved to treat type 2 diabetes (not type 1 at this point), it may help some individuals with type 1 reduce the need for insulin injections, preliminary research suggests. (FYI: It's legal for a licensed provider to prescribe Ozempic off-label for type 1 diabetes or weight loss; your doctor must judge whether off-label use is appropriate for you.) Danielle noticed that her sister had shed "a significant amount of weight" after a year on Ozempic via self-administered injections. So, she started doing her own research, diving into Reddit threads about people's experiences. And then she asked her primary care doctor about it.
This story is from the March - April 2024 edition of Women's Health US.
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