Ozempic Obsession - The 'Skinny Pen' That Destroys Peoples Faces? When Beauty Turns Ugly

I don't know why people are shocked their extremely rapid weightloss is effecting their skin.

There's something so dystopian about the 1% using a medicine to look thinner while the people who actually need it are suffering and are unable to live their lives because the rich are using it all.

I really hate the Ozempic weight loss trend, my mother has diabetes and keeps getting her prescription flagged because it's being abused. I've had to explain to pharmacists multiple times and even had to have her doctor yell at them because they weren't giving her the life saving medicine she needs, all thanks to assumptions and not bothering to look at her other prescriptions.

My fiance (who is a Type 2 diabetic) was prescribed this, and when they went to the pharmacy, the clerk initially denied they had any, so they went to give them their other prescription instead (the diabetes med they were using before) and then clerk was like 'omg you're diabetic? Yes we have it!' and they got their script filled haha.

I gotta reinforce what the video says, Ozempic face isn't a thing: it's just extremely rapid weightloss face. Doesn't matter if you get your stomach stapled or take this drug, if you lose weight faster than your skin can adapt you're gonna get saggy skin including in the face.

I'm type 1 diabetic (not the sort Ozempic is prescribed for) - during the pandemic there were (non diabetic) fitness influencers who had discovered CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) and were using it as a diet fad/hack to "hold themselves accountable" - this led to shortages worldwide for people who actually need it to monitor our glucose levels which keeps us alive. Madness.

I'm a primary care doctor. The number of patients who come to me asking for Ozempic that aren't even overweight is maddening. And some other side effects not mentioned here are severe abdominal cramps, watery diarrhea and sometimes gastritis. I'm the states insurance won't pay unless you meet specific criteria, and patients come back angry at the doctors, sometimes hostile and verbally threatening, because we can't force the insurance companies to pay for it and it's very expensive. More than one patient has demanded I lie in their chart so insurance will post this drug. So I despise this trend.

As someone who’s been on a medication for 10+ years and now struggling with a sudden shortage (adderall shortage didn’t hit my area until march and I was totally unaware it had been building elsewhere for months), I really empathize with the diabetics having to put up with life changes because of doctors casually prescribing medicine and the people seeking out drugs for the wrong reason. Pain in the butt.

As a diabetic, I think what bothers me the most is how this drug which helps people with diabetes survive and improve their lives is now on short supply and more expensive.

As a researcher in obesity, thank you very much for mentioning how it’s not easy for some people to lose excess weight from simply eating “healthier” and exercising more. We are all made differently and some have more trouble than other in additions to other health complications! Great video! Sharing it with all my colleagues🎉

My family and friends still cannot get their medicine due to this trend. In low income areas you literally can watch people die because of celebrity vanity. It’s sickening. The shortage is not getting better because the drug companies are trying to separate the use. Average people still do not have access to this prescription. It’s worse than the Adderal shortage for mental health.

I'm a type 2 diabetic and it took me almost a year to get my insurance to approve Ozempic because they wanted to make sure I wasn't just using it for weight loss. That was another year of 3-5 insulin shots per day, checking my glucose levels constantly and still having insane highs and lows with my glucose levels. After I finally got approved my glucose levels have evened out at normal levels and I've lost 40 lbs. I'm completely off insulin shots and just take pills and the weekly Ozempic. I just wish it didn't take so long because vain people ruined it for the people who need it for medical reasons. Love your videos James! You're one of the few voices of truth and reason in the beauty world!

Current update on Ozempic in the UK for NHS patients... We (Diabetic people) still can't get it because there isn't a steady supply of Ozempic. Can people who aren't diabetic please stop buying this privately? I'm currently on Liraglutide/Wegovy which is a daily shot and less effective in RCTs.

I think a point you’ve missed is that doctors are really only prescribing the strictly weight loss version, Wegovy, now. Ozempic guidelines have gotten much stricter to where you can’t easily get a prescription without having diabetes or other dangerous preexisting conditions. Doctors won’t really offer Ozempic or Trulicity (diabetic drugs) anymore due to shortages.

I'm a diabetic, and I was relieved that I could get my Ozempic prescription filled this week. The shortage is scary for those of us that need it! I'm a Registered Nurse, and this video is well done! Thank you, James!

I started using ozempic last fall because I was pre diabetic. I started at .5 mg and lost about 25 lbs in 3 months. I didn't really have side effects then. But the .5 mg wasn't working as well in month 4. I found myself eating through it. So my doctor increased it to 1 mg. And that's when I noticed the side effects. I was projectile vomiting, nauseated all the time, and had a major increase in the number of migraines I was getting. So I just stopped taking it. I wanted to start taking it again last February but they only were making the 2 mg dose, and had discontinued the lower dose. I didn't even bother trying that dose because I knew it would be too strong. But good news, my last blood work shows I am no longer pre diabetic!

As a diabetic I was put on this. I know why so many lose weight on it, you are too sick to eat. I vomited several times a day with zero warning for 5 days straight. I'd have one day where I didn't feel horrible then I'd have to give myself a shot the next day and the cycle would start all over again. That went on for 2.5 months. I begged my dr to take me off of it. No results are worth feeling like that.

I successfully convinced my type II diabetic aunt to go on Ozempic instead of getting gastric surgery (here in the U.S we are SO pro surgery regardless of the dangers and side-effects). She has a bad knee that hurts so much more with the extra weight she's carrying around, not to mention not being able to exercise in the quickest, most efficient ways (cardio). She got her sugar levels stable within a month and is soo much healthier now thanks to this shot 🥰 she's also saving a lot of money on insulin.

Regarding the Ozempic face: When I became vegan I lost 5kgs pretty quickly. Especially my grandparents always wanted me to lose weight even though I wasn't even near to being overweight. Anyways, they saw what those 5kgs did to my face and realized that maybe my past weight was perfectly fine for my body type. I looked older. I aged from 20 to 26.

Thank you for posting about this! I’m so tired of celebrities claiming their rapid weight loss is due to “exercise and portion control”. Yeah right 🙄 It’s disgraceful that people who genuinely need this medication for health reasons can’t get it due to Hollywood vanity 😬