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Prescription weight loss drugs carry real risk
The medications this site writes about — semaglutide, tirzepatide, and other GLP-1 receptor agonists — are serious prescription drugs, not supplements. Their labels warn about thyroid C-cell tumors (they must not be used by anyone with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or MEN 2), and about pancreatitis, gallbladder problems, kidney injury, and harm in pregnancy. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation are common, especially during dose escalation. Whether any of these medications is a reasonable choice for you is a judgment only a licensed clinician can make after evaluating you — not a judgment a website can make, including this one.
A specific caution about compounded GLP-1s
A number of the programs ranked on this site dispense compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide — versions mixed by a pharmacy for an individual patient. U.S. law permits compounding in defined situations, but compounded drugs are never FDA-approved: no regulator has vetted that specific vial for safety, potency, or manufacturing quality before sale, and the FDA has publicly warned about dosing mistakes and questionable ingredients in some compounded GLP-1 products. When our pages describe compounded medication, we are reporting what a provider sells — we are not vouching for it, and we never describe a compounded product as FDA-approved because that would be false.
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