Food lingers in the stomach longer before it’s ferried to the intestines, making people feel fuller longer. The difference this time was that he’d started taking Ozempic for weight loss two months earlier. In the meantime, in a just-published editorial , he and his co-authors recommend that people taking the drugs for weight loss consider stopping them for three weeks before undergoing sedation. If the stomach isn’t empty, people can end up regurgitating food from the stomach and then inhaling it into the lungs. Unlike Wegovy, Ozempic hasn’t been officially approved by Health Canada for weight loss, though doctors can prescribe it “off label” for obesity.
