Americans left BLIND, paralyzed and with teeth falling out after Ozempic - now they're suing for millions

When Monica Church was prescribed Ozempic to dainty her diabetes successful October 2023, she was told it would assistance easiness her symptoms. 

By Christmas, the 55 twelvemonth aged pistillate from Michigan was enactment successful the infirmary for 2 weeks due to the fact that of abdominal pain, vomiting and tummy paralysis. 

She mislaid the quality to devour foods she utilized to enjoy, similar pizza and bread, and present lone eats tiny meals to debar upsetting her stomach. She said she wasn't told astir these broadside effects by her doctor. 

Ms Church isn't alone. She's 1 of a growing fig of radical joining up with lawsuits against Novo Nordisk and its genitor company, Eli Lilly, for claims that they didn't adequately show immoderate of the risks of the cause connected it's packaging. 

Robert King, a New York based lawyer representing 400 antithetic patients, told DailyMail.com that tummy issues are by acold the astir communal complaint. 

But he's besides representing radical who got humor clots aft opening the cause and radical who assertion that the cause caused blindness, caused their teeth to autumn retired and near them paralyzed.

He said that radical repeatedly archer him they privation they were amended informed astir the risks of the drugs earlier taking it. 

Mr King said: 'I don't deliberation anyone would hold to imaginable blindness. You know, that's a that's a large beingness lawsuit that nary 1 would ever fishy is related to a weight loss issue.' 

Ozempic, and different drugs similar Mounjaro, Wegovy and Trulicity, are a people of drugs called GLP-1 agonist. 

They mimic a hormone that controls feelings of fullness and however rapidly nutrient moves done the body.

These drugs were primitively created to dainty diabetes, but noting however good it helped radical driblet pounds, doctors began prescribing them for radical trying to suffer weight. 

A May 2024 canvass found that 1 successful 8 adults are taking a GLP-1 agonist - which could correspond arsenic galore as 30million people. 

Mr King said that these lawsuits began successful the autumn of 2023, but successful the past year, the fig of radical joining litigation person been steadily climbing. 

Cecily King, 43, Kentuckian had been taking GLP drugs since September 2021. 

Over time, she developed gastroparesis, a paralysis of the tummy which tin origin vomiting's, constipation, malnutrition, acerb reflux and humor sweetener problems. 

In Ms King's case, the stalling retired of her tummy caused her severe, persistent vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal symptom that sent her to the exigency room.

These damages person been permanent, and she inactive suffers with GI issues.

Ms Church, the Michigan patient, told USA Today that surviving with this grounds was difficult. 

She said: 'I couldn’t devour anything. I couldn’t portion anything. I had specified burning successful my tummy and successful my thorax that thing helped.'

Ms King is 1 of the plaintiffs suing Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. Her suit claims that the companies: 'downplayed the severity of the gastrointestinal events caused by its GLP-1RAs.' 

Gastroparesis tin go truthful terrible that it threatens your life, arsenic successful the lawsuit of Louisville’s Jacqueline Barber, 49. Barber told Time that her doc said it would 'work wonders' for her diabetes. 

Instead, she said it wrecked her stomach, and she became furniture bound, throwing up perpetually for the twelvemonth she was connected the drug. 

She dropped 140 pounds, her teeth began crumbling from the tummy acerb and she had to commencement utilizing a walker due to the fact that she became truthful weak. 

Mr King said determination are besides immoderate cases wherever patients are alleging that beingness threatening humor clots are linked to their GLP-1 drug. 

Florida man Roderick Shirely, 83 began taking Ozempic successful 2022 connected the proposal of his endocrinologist. At first, helium tolerated it well.

But successful September 2023, Mr Shirley developed thorax pain, and went to the doctor. There, they recovered a ample humor clot successful his hep and lungs, called a deep-vein thrombosis. breached disconnected and travelled to his lungs. This was perchance cutting disconnected humor travel to the beingness redeeming organ, damaging it. 

He needed exigency surgery, and astir died doubly portion connected the operating table. He besides had 3 cardiac arrest. 

 Afterwards, helium hospitalized for 3 weeks, wracking up aesculapian bills. Mr Shirely is different plaintiff successful the case, and his lawsuit alleges that his: 'life is everlastingly changed due to the fact that of his usage of Ozempic.' 

There is simply a study performed by scientists astatine Chenzhen Longhua District Central Hospital successful China linking GLP drugs to the benignant of humor clots suffered by Mr Shirely. 

However, the grounds isn't conclusive. There are besides studies that suggest the cause tin trim humor clots and associated bosom problems. 

The companies that manufacture these drugs robustly contradict these claims.  

A spokesperson for Novo Nordisk previously told DailyMail.com that these lawsuits are unfounded. They said the broadside effects and risks of Ozempic are listed intelligibly stated connected the label.

They added: ‘Novo Nordisk stands down the information and efficacy of each of our GLP-1 medicines erstwhile they are utilized arsenic indicated and erstwhile they are taken nether the attraction of a licensed healthcare professional.’

Ozempic’s FDA-approved informing statement mentions ‘gastrointestinal adverse reactions’.

It does not look that immoderate of the labels see notation of gastroparesis.

Still, successful these cases, the plaintiffs authorities that their extremity isn't to get escaped of Ozempic, but to assistance radical beryllium much alert of what the risks of taking it are. 

Barber said: 'I conscionable privation radical to person the acquisition I didn’t'.