Michael Buontempo, a resident physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, explains: Most hair shedding on GLP-1s looks like androgenetic alopecia unmasked by an episode of telogen effluvium driven by the magnitude of weight loss, rather than a direct drug toxicity. This means some people discover they have genetic hair loss when the telogen effluvium pulls away enough hair to reveal the underlying pattern
Obesity Semaglutide is HC approved for weight management in those with a BMI 27 with comorbidities or BMI 30
Lifestyle modifications may alleviate sweating
Patients evaluating these options should consider not only cost but also how individual genetic and biomarker factors may relate to treatment response
It can be administered in the thigh, abdomen, or upper arm , depending on patient preference
That is completely absent in the prior two medications, says Rutuja Patel, DO, the medical director of medical weight management at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage and Delnor Hospitals in Illinois