Daily Mail reported on Americans who lost their sight after the drug Ozempic

In the United States, more and more residents who use the diabetes and weight loss drug Ozempic are experiencing vision loss. This was reported by the Daily Mail on February 10.

The publication told about a woman who took an injection for diabetes and woke up the next morning blind in her left eye. She stopped taking the medication afterward, but had to take it again because of her diabetes. Two weeks after that, she lost vision in her right eye as well.

It was clarified that another woman who had been taking the drug for a year lost her vision due to damage to the blood vessels in her retina.

The researchers also found that seven patients were diagnosed with a condition that blocks blood flow to the optic nerve.

According to experts, the exact cause of vision loss in the patients has not been clarified. Presumably, such an effect could be caused by a rapid drop in blood sugar levels, which adversely affects blood vessels.

Lose weight, but health: in Moscow, a network of pharmacies selling "gray" "Ozempik" was covered up

A fashionable drug of a manufacturer that left the Russian Federation was distributed without documents - seized drugs worth millions of rubles

Earlier, in December last year, the development director of the analytical company RNC Nikolai Bespalov reported that the illegal turnover of the remedy "Ozempik" in Russia for January - October 2024 may be from 1 to 1.5 billion rubles.

It was specified that the official sales of the drug, amounted to only 562.8 million rubles. This is due to the fact that the last batch of Ozempik was supplied to Russia in December 2023, after which it stopped exporting. As a result, the overwhelming part of the semaglutide-based drugs market was occupied by Russian analogs of Ozempik.