In short, no - Ozempic and other GLP-1 RA medications have not yet been proven to be safe in pregnancy
3 Image Credit: Juan Gaertner / Shutterstock.com Changes in cravings, mood, and behavior The most cited GLP-1 RA-associated behavioral shift is the loss of obsessive and/or intrusive rumination about acquiring and eating food.GLP-1 RAs have been widely linked anecdotally to reduced food noise, a colloquial and still-evolving concept often framed as heightened and/or persistent food cue reactivity rather than a standardized clinical endpoint
This is a normal human biology
For me, that tradeoff was worth it
In the SUSTAIN-6 clinical trial from 2016, patients taking GLP-1 drugs were nearly 1.5 times more likely to develop retinopathy complications than those in the placebo group
You have to do a lot of calculations to come up with the right dose. Confusion over semaglutide dosages has led some people to accidentally administer doses that are 10 times higher than recommended