Man Hospitalized After Taking Unapproved Weight-Loss Drug
GLP-1s are close to a miracle for people with obesity trying to move the needle on the scale and for people who have diabetes. One in eight people is taking one form or another, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation . But getting FDA-approved medications is key, because there are a lot of copycats on the market that aren’t safe. One man found out the hard way, and it sent him to the emergency department. A 32-year-old man with a history of high blood pressure arrived at his local hospital with a bout of diarrhea that lasted a week. His symptoms started are giving himself a 10 mg shot of retatrutide, which is not FDA approved. After a few weeks, he increased the dose to 20 mg. The next day, he repeated the dose and started to feel incredibly sick. He was having bowel movements every 20 to 30 minutes and became weak. When he arrived at the hospital, his potassium was low, his sodium was borderline, and he was "profoundly dehydrated," showing signs of early kidney injury...
