Excess weight is a common contributor to back pain because it places extra pressure on the spine, muscles, and joints
These side effects can be intense enough for an estimated 10% to 20% of patients to stop using GLP-1s, and they tend to be dose dependent meaning that the higher the dose, the more intense or frequent the side effects can be
But before it was a viral medication, it was and still is, your bodys built-in metabolic GPS
Contraindications include personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, active pancreatitis, or severe kidney disease
However, this was a retrospective claims-based study with patients undergoing 13 different types of surgeries and without data on pre- and peri-operative GLP1-RA use and fasting times