Nausea, diarrhea, and decreased appetite occur most frequently but typically improve within the first few weeks
Joint Pain (Arthralgia) Joints can ache as load and gait change while someone loses weight, or because posture adjusts faster than connective tissues can adapt
Promisingly, because GLP-1 medications promote weight loss and, therefore, reduce fat tissue, they might help downregulate pro-inflammatory molecules
But nobody talks about what happens when things do not go perfectly
For those without pre-existing pancreatic disease, GLP-1 medications are considered to have a favorable safety profile, with pancreatitis being rare and not definitively proven to increase in well-controlled trial data. David Cutler, MD Cutler said that for most people, the absolute risk of experiencing pancreatitis will be very low