Oldvatr
Expert
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
The patient information for Semaglutide (Ozempic) has the following
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This medicine may increase your heart rate while you are at rest. Check with your doctor right away if you have fast or pounding heart beat.
Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) may occur if you do not take enough or skip a dose of your antidiabetic medicine, overeat or do not follow your meal plan, have a fever or infection, or do not exercise as much as usual.
Symptoms of high blood sugar include blurred vision, drowsiness, dry mouth, flushed, dry skin, fruit-like breath odor, increased urination (frequency and amount), ketones in the urine, loss of appetite, stomachache, nausea or vomiting, tiredness, trouble breathing (rapid and deep), unconsciousness, or unusual thirst.
If symptoms of high blood sugar occur, check your blood sugar level and then call your doctor for instructions.
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It does not define what a high sugar level is. but the med does have this as a known set of effects, which is surprising since the med is prescribed to diabetics.
I have found evidence that Semaglutide has been associated with severe DKA events requiring emergency treatment, The DKA was confirmed in this case, but it seems that the patient was also taking a gliflozin med as well. Since the Semaglutide had been recently added, and the known fact that the gliflozins do themselves cause DKA then the incidence of the event was ascribed as anothe gliflozin case, but it had been noted that the semaglutide addition within the week prior to the event had possibly triggered the event. It does seem to be rare, but ketones and palpitations do seem to be common side effects. Maybe what you experienced was not quite the full monty.
https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(21)02354-0/fulltext
This drug has recently been approved in the UK as a general anti obesity treatment so is no longer restricted for diabetes users only.
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This medicine may increase your heart rate while you are at rest. Check with your doctor right away if you have fast or pounding heart beat.
Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) may occur if you do not take enough or skip a dose of your antidiabetic medicine, overeat or do not follow your meal plan, have a fever or infection, or do not exercise as much as usual.
Symptoms of high blood sugar include blurred vision, drowsiness, dry mouth, flushed, dry skin, fruit-like breath odor, increased urination (frequency and amount), ketones in the urine, loss of appetite, stomachache, nausea or vomiting, tiredness, trouble breathing (rapid and deep), unconsciousness, or unusual thirst.
If symptoms of high blood sugar occur, check your blood sugar level and then call your doctor for instructions.
"
It does not define what a high sugar level is. but the med does have this as a known set of effects, which is surprising since the med is prescribed to diabetics.
I have found evidence that Semaglutide has been associated with severe DKA events requiring emergency treatment, The DKA was confirmed in this case, but it seems that the patient was also taking a gliflozin med as well. Since the Semaglutide had been recently added, and the known fact that the gliflozins do themselves cause DKA then the incidence of the event was ascribed as anothe gliflozin case, but it had been noted that the semaglutide addition within the week prior to the event had possibly triggered the event. It does seem to be rare, but ketones and palpitations do seem to be common side effects. Maybe what you experienced was not quite the full monty.
https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(21)02354-0/fulltext
This drug has recently been approved in the UK as a general anti obesity treatment so is no longer restricted for diabetes users only.