In pharmacovigilance databases, anxiety comprised 38.7% of psychiatric adverse event reports, but psychiatric reports as a whole represented only 1.18% of total adverse event reports for GLP-1 receptor agonists
But they tend to be more affordable than other weight loss drugs, both with and without insurance
The gap between understanding milligrams on a prescription and reading units on an insulin syringe has confused more people than any other single aspect of semaglutide therapy
If someone loses weight steadily with minimal side effects on semaglutide, I have no clinical reason to push them toward tirzepatide
Common early side effects include nausea, mild abdominal discomfort, and changes in bowel habits, which generally improve within 24 weeks as the body adjusts to the medication
[43] A small study showed that low serum ferritin was correlated with hypothyroid lab markers