Now I'm going to be talking to you about another medication for obesity, which is called semaglutide or wengovir. Semaglutide contains a hormone that we all produce when we eat, and it tells our brains to feel full.
Therefore, by giving you this, medication, we trick your brain into thinking that it is full, and, therefore, you will eat less even less than what you you might be eating, at the moment.
It is a very safe medication, and in terms of effectiveness we don't know when we started how well it is going to work for you, but we do know whether it is working for you after the first three to four months of treatment.
If you have not lost weight, then we stop the medication and think about another option. If you have lost weight, then it means that you are a responder to the medication, and it also means two more things.
You will continue to lose weight for the first twelve months of your treatment, and then the weight loss will stop, and then you will plateau.
It is important when you reach that plateau that you do not stop the medication. Because if you are to maintain the weight that you have lost, you need to continue taking the medication long term.
And we do know that this medication is very effective and very safe even if you take it long term. The side effects are the same like Saxenda, so they include nausea being the commonest, constipation, or diarrhea.
Now these side effects take place initially when you start the medication for the first few weeks, if not months, and they will disappear completely.
That happens in nine out of ten people who do manage to continue to take the medication longer term without suffering from from complications or side effects.
There are only two, very uncommon side effects or complications that you need to be aware of.
The first one is gallstones. Gallstones can appear and cause inflammation of, of your gallbladder after any treatment which is effective for weight loss.
But even if you are unlikely to do get, gallstone disease, then we stop the medication, and there are no long term consequences.
The same applies for another very rare complication of semaglutide or with Gobi, which is called pancreatitis.
So what happens is in less than three in a thousand of people who get the medication, and, the difference here is that pancreatitis causes abdominal pain.
If that happens, you need to, be seen too by a medical person, and in it is very in the unlikely event that it does happen, you may need to be admitted to hospital for a day or two.
However, the very good news is that when we stop the medication, the pancreatitis disappears, and there are no long term consequences whatsoever.
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