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“I lost 4 stone but then I collapsed in front of my kids… I almost died.”
People, People, People! What is Wrong with This Picture?
- Article in Black
- Absurdity in Red
- My Commentary in Purple
“A mother claims she almost died when the skinny jabs she used to fit into her holiday clothes turned her urine black and left her collapsing in front of her kids every day.”
In all my days as a person on earth (23,503), I have never seen black urine. That is with 30 years of Chronic Kidney Disease behind me, untold numbers of pyelonephritis (severe kidney infections) that hospitalized me, with endless UTIs with blood in my urine, and even when I have been dehydrated enough to faint and have pyelonephritis at the same time. Included in all those days, I have looked at hundreds of thousands of urine specimens of pregnant and non-pregnant women over the last 40 years. And changed countless diapers for far too many decades.
Urine is only black with certain genetic diseases. Dehydration and malnutrition do not qualify. If her illness was affecting her kidneys and that was added to the dehydration, then her urine would be dark red (blood) with dark yellow mixed in. So, her urine was certainly dark, but not black. However, saying it was black is more dramatic than “…turned her urine dark yellow and left her collapsing….”
This doesn’t even address the vanity part of getting the GLP-1 in the first place.
“She did not consult a doctor and paid around £200 every month for the jabs….”
What is there to say about this?
“The mum dropped from 15 stone (210 lbs.) to 11 stone (154 lbs.) in four months. …she could not eat or drink without feeling sick.”
That is losing 14 lbs. a month!
It’s really hard to comprehend someone not being a tad distressed at losing so much so fast. The normal side effect of nausea isn’t something that causes a 14 lb. weight loss a month. For four months!
“She said her urine turned black due to being dehydrated and was feeling more unwell but was embarrassed to tell anyone that she was using the drug.”
Please, anyone who is reading this. If your pee turns purple, green, black, or any weird color in the rainbow, PLEASE GET HELP! There are farrrrr more distressing results from not getting help than embarrassment. Like… DYING!
“The mum-of-two said she would pass out, usually at the end of every day, and was finally taken to hospital when she began falling unconscious in the car.”
Soooo, her afternoon nap consisted of daily passing out in front of her kids? Did no one think, “WTF is wrong with mum?!”
She was obviously weighing herself since she knew she was losing 14 lbs. a month. Did she hit the scale before she faceplanted onto the bed?
(I want to scream the next sentence, but will control my capital letters.)
And she got behind the wheel of a car?!?!?!?!?!
She clearly needed a lot more than her pee checked at the hospital.
“Doctors at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary reportedly said the jab could be the cause of the problem….”
“(She) has now sworn off the jabs after fearing she could have died.”
Okay, I’m thinking the jabs are the least of her issues. Can we count the levels of bad judgment, bad decision making, and bad choices this person made in just one tiny small article in the UK Sunday Express?
Why Am I Writing This?
I just had to say something. I am darn tootin’ tired of these stoopid articles freaking, seemingly sane people, out about our precious medications. These GLP-1s save lives. Many lives, including my own. It’s time to correct the record when the press and lawyers have a field day scaring people.
If you find something you think I would enjoy tearing apart, please put the link in the comments. I come across something like this every other day and this was a delightful piece to write. I am sure I will write more. I think this will be a fun little series for all of us!
This is the first in a series of examining GLP-1 Horror Stories in the (usually UK) press. While no one, not even lawyers or, possibly the person taking GLP-1s themselves, knows the whole story, I am taking the story at its word in the press. Part of that is because people read the headline and let their imaginations run away with them without examing facts. Another part is because what is stated as fact is easy for someone who has been on GLP-1s for over three years (me) to decipher and translate the garbage into real world circumstances. While I am not, nor have ever been, a doctor, I am a retired midwife and a research nerd. I know these medications really well and know I can do these stories justice.
If I am missing anything, feel free to say so in the comments.
Wow, I can honestly say when it comes to the stories like those I skim on past them. If I have issues I go to my doctor otherwise stuff like that I’d read would effect my thinking of continuing to use the product. I wonder what was in it for her to put that article out there? Seems like there must be some kind of compensation that would have been given.
I know the jab works for me! I haven’t had much side effects whatsoever in my year and a half outside of mild nausea.
What a crazy story!
Crazy story, indeed!
We are so lucky that we both have very few to no side effects. Lucky us!
Hugs!
If this was a drug for anything other than obesity, it wouldn’t make the headlines. “They” (whoever that is) do t want us to be thin. If they make these meds sound scary enough, they can protect their skinny privilege.
I agree with everything you say. Ugh… these stories make me crazy!
Love ya, Mindy!