Wegovy what is your opinion

[Shabana1974]

In July it was Approved wegovy to reduce the risk of Stroke and Heart attacks. bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

What are your thoughts about this?

Would you take it if offered?

[RufusScamp]

I would not take it, but that is just a personal fad. I hate taking as much as a simple pain killer. It does seem to have many positive effects.

[davebal67]

Every drug has side effects. I took Champix to stop smoking 15 years ago but you needed will power and really wanting to quit smoking.

Wegovy doesn't reduce the risks of heart and strokes it just works in reducing your appetite and hence you lose weight but needs to be done in conjuction with diet and excercise. By losing weight you then improve your overall metabolic health and then reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke but the damage maybe have done earlier if you have been overweight for a long time.

Maybe try healthy eating combined with excercise to see if you can lose weight without the need for drugs.

I took metformin in 2021 which one of its side effects was losing weight. It also helps suppress hunger and it helped me combined with diet and excercise to lose 6 stone.

My H1bac went from 98 down to 33. But I had blocked arteries and needed a double bypass.

[Shabana1974 in reply to davebal67]

This is true, it's not for me personally I just found the article interesting and and wondered what other people's thoughts were.