Many patients and doctors consider it a starting point when newer agents are unavailable or too expensive
But what strikes me the most is that it is entirely preventable
So when the drugs are then taken away, you havent got those sort of behavioural strategies in place that help keep the weight off. Responding to the findings, Tam Fry, the chair of the National Obesity Forum, said: It shouldnt surprise anyone if people regain weight having used GLP-1 drugs without seriously attempting to improve their lifestyle Using GLP-1 is not the quick fix which many users believe it to be. Jane Ogden, a professor of health psychology at Surrey University, said there was no point just throwing people back out into the world of their own lives, carrying on their own behaviours from before after coming off the injections
Gastroparesis and pulmonary aspiration risk GLP-1R agonists delay gastric emptying , leading to concerns about residual gastric content at the time of anaesthesia
Your clinician can suggest strategies to ease these side effects, guide discontinuation, and discuss safer alternatives according to your needs
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