London women are falling pregnant on Ozempic — but no one knows if it's safe yet
“All that money spent to get skinny and then you go and get pregnant? I’d be livid,” says Frankie*, a 29-year-old Londoner who recently applied for the diabetes drug Ozempic, which has been discovered to have desirable weight loss effects.
Despite doing extensive research into Ozempic, Frankie says she saw no warning of the fact that it counteracts some birth controls, or can potentially increase your fertility. “For real, I had no idea,” she reveals.
Frankie is one of many women only just learning about this side effect of the increasingly popular diabetes drug (generically known as semaglutide). Luckily for her, she didn’t realise it via a test. But Ali did. “I was shocked,” says the 34-year-old mum of two who, up until last year, thought she had incredibly low fertility.
