This is just terrifying…
A mom from Newcastle, England is putting out a warning to those thinking about buying weight loss drugs from social media! Leigh-Anne Lagden told Kennedy News & Media earlier this week she had a horrifying “overdose” after an Instagram account sent her weight loss medication for free to promote their brand. She claimed:
“The injections didn’t cost me a penny. The page sent them to me and I was meant to be on them for a month as I was meant to be promoting their brand. It came in a liquid solution with a needle so you had to make it up yourself.”
And make it up she did! The 26-year-old mother of one took the injection — the brand’s “recommended” dose, which was 0.5 milliliters. Horrifyingly, she had some serious side effects of the medication:
“I was throwing up for four days nonstop straight after I took the injection. My vomit was black and I was bedbound.”
WTF??
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Leigh-Anne claimed she contacted the company, but the only response she got was that nausea was a common occurrence when first starting the injections. Things didn’t improve, though, and she ended up going to the emergency room two days after taking her first dose:
“They sent an ambulance out to me. I wasn’t eating or drinking and I couldn’t keep everything down. When I told them my sick was black, they told me it was blood. I was just throwing up blood. I thought I was going to die and I felt like I was going to die.”
Holy s**t…
Mom Overdosed on Weight Loss Drug She Got on Instagram, Recalls 'Throwing Up Blood': 'Thought I Was Going to Die' https://t.co/rgT8gdsn7O
— People (@people) November 7, 2024
After her initial trip to the emergency room with bloody vomit, she was sent home a day later. She said for an entire week the only thing she could keep down were popsicles, and as you can imagine, she ended up right back in the ER. She recalled her heart rate skyrocketing one day:
“They asked if I was on any drugs because my heart was beating so fast. My bloods came back and they said they were off the charts and my liver was extremely abnormal.”
It’s at this point she claims the hospital told her she “overdosed” on the drug — because she took “five days worth” in one go:
“I think the reason I got so poorly was because I took five days worth in one hit. In the hospital they told me I overdosed but that is what [the Instagram page], told me to take.”
Leigh-Anne said she contacted the brand after this, but they had no remorse for her health problems. She even claimed to have reached out to other content creators, who said they were told to only take 0.1 milliliter, unlike herself:
“They made me take five times the amount.”
The momfluencer said what she took was a GLP-1 drug — so something like the ever-popular Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and Mounjaro. All in all, she said she’s done with the weight loss drug fad for good. She said she’s no longer taking the “easy way out”:
“I’d never take these again. I’ve learned my lesson and am now losing weight the normal way by going to the gym and working out.”
And for anyone feeling like she was about her weight, she offered some wisdom:
“Don’t be so hard on yourself. I thought I was big and needed to take these injections when in reality I was a healthy, normal size. Don’t be taking these weight loss injections off strangers on the internet. Do your research first.”
Good advice! Leave medication to the medical professionals, and not some random running an Instagram account!
We’re glad to hear Leigh-Anne is doing better now. What a scary situation. Reactions, Perezcious readers?
[Image via Eyepix/WENN]
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