Lottie Moss & her ozempic experience

i know she doesn’t rly have the best rep but i feel like this is a good PSA for anyone that is considering trying off label ozempic (shaaamingly such as myself).

full transcript:

”A few months ago, I was not feeling happy about my weight, I had a friend, and she could get it for me. It was below board, from a doctor, but it wasn't like you go into a doctor's office and he prescribes it for you, takes your blood pressure, and takes tests, which is what you need when you go on something like Ozempic. At the end of the day it is a medication, it is dangerous and really meant for weight loss of people of a very large size.
When I was taking it, the amount that I was taking was meant for people who are 100 kilos and over and I'm in the 50s range. It's these small things I wish I'd known before taking it. But I took it, you inject it into your leg, and it was the worst decision I ever made.
This is a warning to everyone. Please, if you're thinking of taking it, do not take it, it's so not worth it. I would rather die any day than take it again. It made me feel so nauseous.
I took it for two weeks. It comes with a pen and different doses, you take one injection one week, one injection the next week and you take every week, and I've never felt sicker in my life. I was throwing up, it was horrible. I took a lower dosage the first time I took it then I went up higher. I ended up being in bed for two days, felt so sick, my weight had dropped. I started at about 60 kilos, and I went down to 57 with the first dose, then I went down to 54. It was crazy, my lowest was 53. In terms of a few weeks, that's not a healthy weightloss, not a healthy drop.
When I was in bed for those two days and it was at the end of it and I just wanted to come off it, because it's not like you can stopping taking it, it's not like a pill that you don't take when you wake up in the morning, it's in your system and it's there. I felt so sick one day I said to my friend, "I can't keep any water down, I can't keep any food down, no liquids, nothing. I need to go to hospital, I feel really sick."
We went to ER at three in the morning, we go and see one of the nurses and she's like "how much of a dose are you taking?" I was like however much and she was like "oh my god, that's so not the amount you should be taking." She asked how much weight I'd lost in two weeks and I told her…. She sent me to the emergency room, and I got wheelchaired through the hospital.
At one point, I went to the bathroom, and I felt really sick, I felt like I was going to pass out, I thought something was happening, I didn't feel good. As soon as I got into the room where I was seen by another nurse, I literally had a seizure from how dehydrated I was, which was honestly one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me in my life. My friend Reece had to hold my feet down and it was just so scary, the whole situation, I didn't know what was going on, my face was clenching up, my whole body was tense, my hands, it was so weird, your hands clench up and you can't move them and it feels like you're going to break your hand. It was honestly horrible.
I hope by me talking about this and saying my experience with it can be a lesson to some people, it's so not worth it. It's for diabetes, it's not for weight loss really. I get that in the media everyone and all these celebrities are on it right now and it's so hard to look at that and see these dramatic weight losses, especially for people with eating disorders and problems with eating, it's so hard to see that when maybe you're not someone who drops weight quickly or you're struggling with recovering.
This heroin chic trend right now coming back, which is something that happened in the 90s, we should not be going back there. This should not be a trend right now... Where did the body positivity go? I don't understand because we were doing so well, the curvy girls were eating and it was becoming more of a trend to be curvier and sexy and now it's gone back in time to this heroin chic, not eating, being super, super thin.
And obviously if that's your body type and you are naturally very thin then this excludes you but just be happy with your weight and happy you have a body that functions and works instead of putting it through something like that. It can be so detrimental to your body in the future.”