Social media users are horrified to discover yet another unpleasant side effect of 'King Kong' jab Mounjaro

It's been hailed arsenic a 'miracle' fat-busting cause and a breakthrough successful the warfare connected obesity — but users of Mounjaro person revealed yet different unpleasant broadside effect.

Despite their undeniable slimming effects, injections of GLP-1 drugs, specified arsenic Ozempic and Wegovy, person been linked to a catalogue of broadside effects including musculus loss, hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment and 'Ozempic face'. 

Now users of weight-loss jab tirzepatide, sold arsenic Mounjaro and coined the 'King Kong' of slimming injections, are complaining the medicine is leaving them feeling permanently 'freezing' cold.

Scores of TikTok users person shared clips demonstrating their drug-induced chills, tagging the videos with the hashtag 'jaro jitters' and 'Mounjaro broadside effects'.

One caller TikTok video posted by @katie.k1986, who has been taking the cause for conscionable implicit a month, sees the societal media idiosyncratic wrapped up successful a fleece portion telling followers she is 'so acold I could beryllium successful Greenland'.

Several TikTok users commented connected the video, echoing Katie's experience. 

'I'm watching this video nether an electrical blanket,' said one, portion different willed the menopause to statesman to summation her assemblage temperature. 

Another video posted by @life.withleanne, who has been injecting Mounjaro for astir six months, sees the societal media suggest that Eskimos are warmer than her. 

Meanwhile idiosyncratic @nicinackinoo said: 'I am wearing a granny nighty, a dressing gown, a propulsion and different propulsion and socks and I americium inactive shivering.'

Now, Professor Alex Miras, starring obesity adept from Ulster University, has offered a elemental mentation for the phenomenon. 

He explained that erstwhile we suffer weight, our vigor expenditure reduces successful an effort to sphere fat — meaning we pain less calories. 

But the process of burning vigor generates heat, meaning we consciousness colder erstwhile are assemblage does this little often. 

Professor Miras told MailOnline: 'When radical scope their value plateau, which is usually a twelvemonth aft starting the medication, they commencement burning much vigor and are little apt to kick of feeling cold.'

Professor John Wilding, an adept successful cardiovascular and metabolic medicine astatine the University of Liverpool, said feeling acold is simply the effect of losing fat. 

He told MailOnline: 'People who suffer value volition person little fat, and arsenic this acts arsenic an insulator, it mightiness marque consciousness that they consciousness the acold more; determination is besides a flimsy slowing of your vigor expenditure. 

'Cold intolerance is known to hap with value loss, whether this happens by dieting, medicines, oregon with value nonaccomplishment surgery. 

'So, if radical are experiencing this, it is apt owed to the value loss, alternatively than a circumstantial effect of the medicine used.'

Clinical trials person reported a fig of broadside effects from taking Mounjaro.

One, involving 900 participants, recovered a 5th suffered from nausea and diarrhoea, and astir 1 successful 10 reported vomiting oregon constipation. 

US pharmaceutical elephantine Eli Lilly, who makes the drug, said Mounjaro's broadside effects were astir commonly reported erstwhile the dose was increased.

Only astir 4 per cent and 7.5 per cent of participants, successful the 10mg and 15mg dosing cohorts respectively, discontinue the survey owed to broadside effects.

Other radical taking the cause extracurricular of objective trials person reported experiencing hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment portion taking Mounjaro.

EU cause watchdog, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), said earlier this twelvemonth that probe connected rodents has suggested the artificial hormones packaged successful tirzepatide could rise the hazard of medullary thyroid cancer.

The EMA has ruled that a monitoring survey of patients taking the cause is required to research the imaginable of a raised crab hazard successful humans.

Some users person besides commented that GLP-1 drugs origin premature aging.  

That's due to the fact that weight-loss injections don't people abdominous specifically, instead, triggering weight loss by affecting appetite.

The effect is that patients tin besides suffer musculus wide by not eating arsenic overmuch protein, the gathering artifact of muscle, arsenic earlier taking the drug.

Fat besides drops disconnected the face, not conscionable the belly, making galore radical look gaunt, known arsenic 'Ozempic face'.

Since the abdominous successful our look helps gives creaseless plump cheeks and wrinkle escaped foreheads, rapidly losing it tin marque radical rapidly look overmuch older.

However, similar galore drugs, the broadside effects of Mounjaro tin beryllium serious. 

Susan McGowan, a 58 year-old caregiver from Lanarkshire, died from aggregate organ failure, septic daze and pancreatitis aft taking 2 low-dose injections of tirzepatide.

She took the jabs for a two-week play earlier her decease connected September 4. It is thought to beryllium the archetypal clip the medicine has been listed arsenic a contributing origin connected a decease certificate.

In different case, Meredith Hotchkiss, a caregiver from Meridian, Idaho successful the US, said she volition present apt beryllium conduit fed for the remainder of her life, aft taking the injection for conscionable a substance of weeks.

The 56-year-old who said the jab had 'devastated' her beingness is 1 hundreds of patients who person joined a a multi-state US suit against the drugmakers of Mounjaro and different value nonaccomplishment jab Ozempic.

Thousands much patients who besides suffered utmost side-effects are expected to articulation the ineligible enactment arsenic it progresses, lawyers say.