the lyric also reminds me of the olivia rodrigo lyric "i'm so sick of 17 where's my effing teenage dream"
but yeah i can't seem to wrap my head around why being thin is such a craze to the point of abusing drugs and causing a shortage. it's 2024 like you said we're supposed to be past all that but nah... how sad
I have a Malabsorption Bile Disorder, and Ozempic has completely changed my life. For the first time in my life, my disease is under control, marking a significant shift in my health journey.
Having Malabsorption Bile Disorder has made managing my health challenging, with many treatments providing limited relief. The introduction of Ozempic into my regimen has been transformative, helping to control my condition in a way I hadn't experienced before. This personal journey underscores the importance of finding the right medical treatments tailored to one's specific health needs and the potential of medications like Ozempic to offer benefits beyond their initial indications.
My medication, prescribed by my physician and specially prepared by a local pharmacy, costs $310 monthly. This prescription includes delivery directly to my home, complete with needles and sterile pads for administration.
Ozempic is also used for people that have a high risk of stroke, heart attack or other cardiovascular disorders (including post heart transplants). These people that are only using it because they think they need to loose a touch of weight don’t understand the severity of taking it away from people that actually need it - diabetics and those who have severe cardiovascular diseases. It’s embarrassing that it’s become such a craze because we’re so obsessed with how we look, when it could be someone’s life or death.
I keep seeing people say 'well if it helps people loose weight then good for them i have no problem with it' without knowing the first thing about what a lifelong medication does to people's bodies who don't need it for its intended purpose
As someone who has a chronic illness and has to take lifelong drugs + injections I can’t justify people deciding willingly to take a medication for an illness they don’t have, risking their physical and mental health. I understand society pressure and all, especially if your job is tied to your image, but something needs to change.
So much about body positivity but we are always at square one.
Thank you for sharing with vulnerability and honesty in this post <3
I'm curious about this passage: "The Ozempic craze is telling us that thin, is once again 'in'” -- in a piece I just published myself, I quoted a writer who said: "What’s occurring isn’t the sudden resurgence of thinness following a body-positive idyll, but a return to the unabashed, public coveting of emaciation …"
In other words, it's not like thin was ever "out," but there was this hush-hush feeling about it; you couldn't be so loudly and obviously covetous, maybe, without suffering social consequences? Is that how it felt to you, or did you really feel like most people actively and truly cared less about pursuing thinness? I'm really interested in the felt experience around this for other people, because tbh, I was always really... idk... sus about thinness being "out." I think a lot of people were just cloaking their thinness worship in "wellness" pursuits, or pretending they were only doing things for "health"... it always felt so obvious to me that most (not all, of course) people still really wanted to be thin. Maybe I'm just older and cynical.
the lyric also reminds me of the olivia rodrigo lyric "i'm so sick of 17 where's my effing teenage dream"
but yeah i can't seem to wrap my head around why being thin is such a craze to the point of abusing drugs and causing a shortage. it's 2024 like you said we're supposed to be past all that but nah... how sad
I have a Malabsorption Bile Disorder, and Ozempic has completely changed my life. For the first time in my life, my disease is under control, marking a significant shift in my health journey.
Having Malabsorption Bile Disorder has made managing my health challenging, with many treatments providing limited relief. The introduction of Ozempic into my regimen has been transformative, helping to control my condition in a way I hadn't experienced before. This personal journey underscores the importance of finding the right medical treatments tailored to one's specific health needs and the potential of medications like Ozempic to offer benefits beyond their initial indications.
My medication, prescribed by my physician and specially prepared by a local pharmacy, costs $310 monthly. This prescription includes delivery directly to my home, complete with needles and sterile pads for administration.
🤍🤍🤍🤍 even reading this a second time it’s still such a powerful read.
How have we come so far and yet thinness is still the “ideal” 😞
Our bodies are so wonderful I hate that we feel this pressure to f*** with them 😢
this was really beautiful, thanks for your bravery <3
Can I just..... "exist, as you are, in defiance of..." is such a beautiful phrase. Thank you for sharing this again.
Ozempic is also used for people that have a high risk of stroke, heart attack or other cardiovascular disorders (including post heart transplants). These people that are only using it because they think they need to loose a touch of weight don’t understand the severity of taking it away from people that actually need it - diabetics and those who have severe cardiovascular diseases. It’s embarrassing that it’s become such a craze because we’re so obsessed with how we look, when it could be someone’s life or death.
I keep seeing people say 'well if it helps people loose weight then good for them i have no problem with it' without knowing the first thing about what a lifelong medication does to people's bodies who don't need it for its intended purpose
As someone who has a chronic illness and has to take lifelong drugs + injections I can’t justify people deciding willingly to take a medication for an illness they don’t have, risking their physical and mental health. I understand society pressure and all, especially if your job is tied to your image, but something needs to change.
So much about body positivity but we are always at square one.
Stop over-eating. When I was a teenager nobody was fat, i.e. 1960s .
Forget taking drugs for weight loss, look how much food you are shoving in your mouth and get off your arse, go for a run.
Thank you for sharing with vulnerability and honesty in this post <3
I'm curious about this passage: "The Ozempic craze is telling us that thin, is once again 'in'” -- in a piece I just published myself, I quoted a writer who said: "What’s occurring isn’t the sudden resurgence of thinness following a body-positive idyll, but a return to the unabashed, public coveting of emaciation …"
In other words, it's not like thin was ever "out," but there was this hush-hush feeling about it; you couldn't be so loudly and obviously covetous, maybe, without suffering social consequences? Is that how it felt to you, or did you really feel like most people actively and truly cared less about pursuing thinness? I'm really interested in the felt experience around this for other people, because tbh, I was always really... idk... sus about thinness being "out." I think a lot of people were just cloaking their thinness worship in "wellness" pursuits, or pretending they were only doing things for "health"... it always felt so obvious to me that most (not all, of course) people still really wanted to be thin. Maybe I'm just older and cynical.