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I saw a patient recently who went from 320 pounds to 180 pounds on Mounjaro, but got so badly constipated they ended up in the emergency room needing to be disimpacted
A physician-supervised plan can help answer whether the medication is appropriate, which option fits the patients risk profile, what dose should be used, how quickly the dose should increase, what side effects should be expected, when the dose should be held or adjusted, how much protein the patient should eat, how muscle can be preserved, what labs should be tracked, and what long-term maintenance should look like
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For patients experiencing significant discomfort, symptomatic management may be appropriate
" More research is needed into why and how these taste change vary across individuals as GLP-1s become an increasingly mainstream option for weight loss, Doty and other experts say especially as use among Americans has more than doubled in the past year