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Having a slim physique is the dream of many. Not only celebrities but also many men and women who can afford costly treatments do whatever they can to attain that. Weight loss drugs help them to a great extent to achieve that.
Some of the type-2 diabetes medications also help in weight loss treatments like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and so on. When people aspire for a quick remedy for their weight gain, they choose these diabetes drugs. Whatever gained in shortcuts won’t last long. People forget to realize that.
Even people who use these drugs for diabetes management tend to encounter weight loss as a side effect. Some of them take it as an added advantage, if they are overweight. However, the weight loss side effects can affect them very badly.
These drugs slow down the digestion process by making the food stay longer in the stomach. When the food stays in the stomach longer than the usual time, it would gradually make the stomach muscles weaker. This would lead to stomach paralysis.
Recently a Louisiana woman, Jaclyn Bjorklund, filed a class action lawsuit against the makers of Ozempic and Mounjaro for causing her stomach paralysis. She had been taking the medications to control her Type-2 diabetes. The long term use of these medications resulted in her excessive nausea and vomiting leading to tooth loss and stomach paralysis.
The makers of these medications, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lily were sued alleging that they purposely masked the stomach paralysis side effect from the consumers.
The weight loss drugs stomach paralysis lawsuit quotes many studies, which linked this adverse side effect to the weight loss drugs. However, the manufacturers claim that the link between the two was not proved yet.
The famous legal entity, Morgan & Morgan sued a lawsuit on behalf of Jaclyn Bjorklund. They claimed that this was not the only case but many other victims who encountered the same stomach paralysis issue were waiting to sue the wrongdoers.
Consumers and physicians should be aware of these kinds of drugs before prescribing or consuming to stay safe and healthy. If affected, the victims should keep their medical records intact to proceed with a claim.
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