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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

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.

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