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In order to lose weight, obese people seek to obtain the drug for diabetics on social networks, where resellers are on the lookout.
Last summer, when Isabella explained on the social network TikTok why she was taking Ozempic, she received a barrage of aggressive, even hateful, comments. The drug marketed in France since 2019 is dedicated to the treatment of type 2 diabetes, he is told. Although she is not diabetic, this 39-year-old hypnotherapist does not really have a choice. Suffering from endometriosis and having suffered from several hernias, she must lose ten kilos, otherwise the surgical reconstruction of her intestinal wall cannot take place. His doctor prescribed Ozempic to lose weight. “In two weeks, I lost five kilos. I stopped because of the side effects, it was enough to allow the operation.
The use of Ozempic is not limited to the fight against diabetes in France. For certain obese patients like Isabella, opting for Ozempic to lose weight is done within a legal framework, reimbursed by social security, with a prescription signed by their doctor. This one “benefits from freedom of prescription”, even if the prescription outside the marketing authorization (AMM) “must remain exceptional”, recalled the
