When 28-year-old Danielle K. Gained around 50 pounds during the pandemic, she tried everything to drop the weight:
Intermittent fasting, working out consistently, and focusing on a balanced diet. Nothing made a difference on the scale or in the mirror.
Around the same time, Danielle's sister, who has type 1 diabetes, started taking a prescription drug called Ozempic-perhaps you've heard of it?-that has a known weight-loss side effect.
While the drug is FDA-approved to treat type 2 diabetes (not type 1 at this point), it may help some individuals with type 1 reduce the need for insulin injections, preliminary research suggests. (FYI: It's legal for a licensed provider to prescribe Ozempic off-label for type 1 diabetes or weight loss; your doctor must judge whether off-label use is appropriate for you.) Danielle noticed that her sister had shed "a significant amount of weight" after a year on Ozempic via self-administered injections. So, she started doing her own research, diving into Reddit threads about people's experiences. And then she asked her primary care doctor about it.
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