The little-known side effects of Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro no one talks about. Here's the price you really have to pay...

The little-known side effects of Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro no one talks about. Here's the price you really have to pay..

. By Anonymous Published: 20:50 EDT, 18 August 2024 | Updated: 20:54 EDT, 18 August 2024 e-mail View comments You don’t think about weight loss in terms of financial outlay. If anything, you end up saving money on expensive takeaways and nights out and literally dropping the pounds? Not these days.

For the last couple of years, I’ve been using weight-loss drugs – and now I’m trapped in the most expensive yo-yo diet of all time. I’ve spent thousands of pounds, taken on extra work, foregone luxuries and even taken out a bank loan. In all, it’s cost me almost £4,500.

And yet last week, when I got on the scales, I weighed 22stone and one pound. From start to finish, I’ve actually gained one pound in the last two years. I began using Ozempic (this contains the drug semaglutide, also used in Wegovy) in March 2022, aged 31 and weighing 22stone.

Despite my size, my GP told me they couldn’t prescribe weight-loss injections so I self-funded, shelling out around £200 a month and buying from private pharmacies. After 11 months, by February 2023, I had lost over three stone, going from 22stone to 19. That’s a size 26 down to a size 18.

I felt like an entirely different person. Not only did people notice and comment that I looked slimmer but I was moving more, I had more energy, my asthma had improved and I felt a hundred times happier. Then I stopp.