Peatful
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AhFrom a personal experience perspective:
I had two female patients (one 30’s and the other 40’s) last year that went unresponsive while on it for weight loss and came to the hospital I was working at for ventilator weaning after a previous ICU stay. Both were females and were successfully weaned from the vent. The one in her 40’s remains severely debilitated requiring 24/7 care and a trach. The lady in her 30’s came back to the hospital a couple months after discharge to thank us for helping her. She was living at home again with her husband and young daughter and only needed a walker to get around. We had already removed her trach before she left our facility. Sadly the day she came in she said “I’m still fat.”
I tell anyone who asks my opinion that I think it’s too risky and there doesn’t seem to be enough long term safety to warrant taking it imo.
Remember the weight loss drug Fen-Phen?
Exact same thing happened with a patient I was treating
Young mother
Saw her years later
She was still with trache
Completely disabled
(I was actually serving at a Thanksgiving event at a low income ministry and she was there with her kids. Drug destroyed her life).
Pharmaceuticals don’t heal