Despite the rates of nausea observed in the PIONEER trials, only a small increase in discontinuation of oral semaglutide as compared with the active drug arms was found.[15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22] GI side effects are usually transient in nature and can be managed by proper patient counselling
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This is usually telogen effluvium, a temporary shedding triggered by rapid weight loss and low nutrition, not the drug attacking your follicles
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Funding This work was supported by the Research Excellence Program-Instituto Aggeu Magalhes (IAM-PROEP#400208/2019-9), the Knowledge Generation Program of the Fundao Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ