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According to the SmPCs for these medications, the most frequently reported gastrointestinal adverse effects include nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, dyspepsia and flatulence
Yet, this mindset leads to patients who struggle later with fatigue, excess muscle loss, or difficulty maintaining results
This pattern of regain is consistent across trials of weight-loss medications in which participants were suddenly taken off the medication without a tapering schedule (where the dose is gradually reduced over time)
Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk recently conducted a large-scale study investigating whether weight-loss drug semaglutide could slow Alzheimers progression