The active ingredient, semaglutide, has traditionally been used to treat type 2 diabetes and it has also proven effective for non-diabetics
The injection may last weeks or months depending on the dosage of your prescription
Side effects of semaglutide If you experience side effects with semaglutide, such as severe gastrointestinal problems, diarrhea, stomach ache, vomiting, excessive burping, and abdominal discomfort, and they do not subside over time and are intolerable, consider switching to tirzepatide
Pieter Cohen, the study's senior author and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
In a recent post-hoc analysis of SUSTAIN 6, semaglutide was associated with less events of nephropathy, independent of baseline blood pressure (119)