I started taking it in November and I’m down 30 pounds and my retina has detached 2x for no apparent reason since then. My drinking is unchanged, except I get full sooner and drink slower. Because of the discomfort.
Oh my, is retinal detachment a known potential side effect of the drug? Or is that a complication of diabetic retinopathy or some other condition that you already had? This sounds frightening. Hope they were able to reattach it, and hope you're doing alright.
I can’t find the specific study this website cites, but it mentions:
> In a 2-year trial among patients with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular risk, patients treated with this drug experienced a great incidence of diabetic retinopathy complications (3% vs 1.8%). The absolute risk was greater in patients with a history of diabetic retinopathy at baseline (8.2%[drug] vs 5.2%[placebo]) than those without (0.7%[drug] vs 0.4%[placebo]).
Non diabetic, didn’t/don’t have diabetic retinopathy. I had assumed that the detachments were unrelated to Semaglutide but just happened as a freak coincidence in time.
The no apparent reason was a bit of hyperbole, since my vitreous was pulling away from the retina and brought some pieces with it during the process. But as to why that was happening at my current age is unknown. Second was likely related to stress in the eye from healing from the first surgery. But the point was I didn’t take any blows to the head or eye, or any other common cause of retinal detachments.
This was covered in a recent YouTube video I saw on semaglutide treatment. The real problem is rapid changes in your blood glucose levels can radically change your eyesight, regardless of the cause. So, with Semaglutide and other drugs, you need to have a slow ramp-up period and let your body get adjusted to the drug, otherwise you risk having those rapid changes to your blood glucose levels.
Thanks, I am stable for now. There is some vision loss but only in the periphery, my most recent surgery was on Tuesday so it’s not clear how much is permanently lost and how much will continue to return as the eye heals.
