Ozempic User Will Suffer Diarrhea Forever After Weight Loss Drug Caused ‘Life-Threatening’ Injury to Bowels, Lawsuit Claims

A woman who claimed to use Ozempic for weight loss has filed lawsuits saying the drug brought on a bowel injury, causing her to experience diarrhea for the rest of her life, according to a report. 

The Daily Mail reported that the woman, unidentified by name, along with nearly a dozen others, filed lawsuits against the parent company of Ozempic, Novo Nordisk, and Wegovy, a similar drug.

The woman and the others are claiming in the lawsuits that injecting themselves with Ozempic caused gastroparesis, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a condition in which the stomach has difficulty getting emptied.

The woman had to get an eight-hour operation to repair her colon after contracting gastroparesis. After the surgery ended, doctors told her she “will never have a solid bowel movement again,” the Daily Mail reported. 

In court filings, the woman is allegedly saying Novo Nordisk failed “to properly warn about the risk of gastroparesis on the drugs’ packaging.”

The lawsuit filed against Wegovy claims that another user didn’t have bowel movements for a week after using the drug. 

The Daily Mail identified one woman, Brea Hand, who uses Ozempic for weight loss and to treat pre-diabetes. Hand, 23 and from Oklahoma, told the Daily Mail she was diagnosed with gastroparesis after getting injected with the drug. She’s one of the people suing Novo Nordisk. 

“They said my body was so acidotic that if I would have waited one more day that I wouldn’t have made it through,” Hand said in the lawsuit, according to the Daily Mail. “It was scary. It was painful. I have not ever experienced that kind of pain in my entire life and I do not ever want to go through that again.”

She said she thinks Novo Nordisk should “definitely advertise more of the risks it does have.”