Maintaining weight loss requires continued use
Many people tolerate more food at midday than at night
Hold the vial up to a light source and look through it
Consult With an Eye Doctor Ultimately, more research is needed to determine the correlation between semaglutide use and NAION, sometimes referred to as Ozempic blindness
For example, people with a history of heavy drinking who took semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) reported fewer alcohol cravings, drank less when they did drink and had fewer heavy drinking episodes than those who took a placebo, according to a 2025 double-blind, randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry
Second, outcome ascertainment was based on administrative coding within electronic health records, which may be subject to misclassification or underreporting, particularly for diagnoses such as chronic pancreatitis or early pancreatic cancer