A WOMAN who went on Mounjaro in a bid to lose weight has issued an urgent warning to anyone considering the fat jab.
Lucinda explained that the weight “piled on” during the Covid-19 lockdown, so her “usual weight” of 10 to 10-and-a-half stone went out the window.
She ended up at 20 stone – double her pre-pandemic weight – and decided to go and seek advice from her GP.
The doctor suggested going on a supported by the NHS, which Lucinda did, but there was hardly any change to her health.
So the next step was to go on a weight loss injection called Wegovy, also known as semaglutide, and Lucinda lost in the space of two months.
“I was then taken off this because I've decided myself that I'm gonna go down the route of a bariatric ,” she explained.
“And I've just been given the OK for that, which is amazing news for me!”
However, as she was still struggling to lose weight before the operation, she decided to “take it upon” herself to try Mounjaro.
“I was okay with it for the first two weeks,” Lucinda continued.
“I injected as I should, I followed the instructions.
“And I woke up one morning and I was blind
“Blind, couldn't see around.”
Lucinda called her doctor, “panicking”,and admitted she could only just see the screen on her phone.
When she spoke to the doctor and told him she'd been taking Mounjaro he told her to “come off it now” and to “stop immediately”.
“The number of cases they've had of people losing their vision on Mounjaro injections, and it's not mentioned in the news?” Lucinda questioned.
Concluding her video, she urged people not to “risk” taking the drug as she said: “I'm 33.
“Can't be going blind at 33 off of taking a weight loss injection!”
She also insisted: “You just got to be so careful with these things.
There's so many hidden side effects.
“The best thing to do is go to your doctor and tell them you are really struggling with weight loss and you need help, and they will put you in the right direction.”
“Mounjaro, please don't risk it,” she wrote over the top of her video.
Scientifically speaking, Mounjaro leads to a rapid improvement in blood sugar levels, which can temporarily worsen a condition called diabetic retinopathy – which affects the blood vessels in the retina.
This can then result in blurry vision.
