A Louisiana woman claims that she has suffered severe vomiting, stomach pain, and teeth loss as a result of taking the popular weight loss drugs.
Wednesday in the Western District of Louisiana of the United States District Court system, and the plaintiff is 44-year-old Jaclyn Bjorklund.According to the complaint, Bjorklund was prescribed and had been taking the drug Ozempic—developed by Novo Nordisk—for over a year. In July 2023, she was switched to the drug Mounjaro, developed by Eli Lilly.
Ozempic’s active ingredient is semaglutide, which mimics the action of a hunger-related hormone known as GLP-1, while Mounjaro’s active ingredient is tirzepatide, which mimics both GLP-1 and another hormone called GIP. Semaglutide was recently approved as a treatment for obesity in June 2021, under the brand name Wegovy, but Ozempic is only approved for type 2 diabetes.
and delayed gastric emptying . In clinical trials, these reported symptoms have tended to be mild to moderate in intensity and become less common over time. But Bjorklund alleges that both companies have intentionally “downplayed the severity” of these symptoms, while outright not warning people about the risk of specific complications likeparalyzed and can stop food entirely from reaching the small intestine.Bjorklund isn’t the first person to allege a possible connection between severe vomiting as well as gastroparesis and these drugs.
At this point, neither drug carries a label warning about possible gastroparesis, and it may take more research to confirm a causal link. There are other known risk factors for gastroparesis, including diabetes. And in some of these alleged cases, including Bjorklund’s, the patients have not been formally diagnosed with the condition by a doctor.
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