Nothing can scare Jennifer Fessler away from using Ozempic — even an impacted bowel.
All through Monday’s episode of her “Two Jersey Js” podcast with Jackie Goldschneider, the “Precise Housewives of New Jersey” newcomer revealed she dealt with a reasonably uncomfortable side impression after taking the celebrity-loved weight discount drug.
“I’ve been on, and I’m not going to call it Ozempic — that’s been the umbrella determine. Nonetheless I’ve been on semaglutide for over a 12 months now, and I’ve misplaced probably 22 kilos,” Fessler, 55, talked about all through the podcast. (Notably, semaglutide is the energetic ingredient in drugs like Ozempic.)
No matter admitting to being “a raging hypochondriac,” Fessler says when it comes to points involving her “bodily look” her nervousness goes “out the window.”
“I’m not afraid of Ozempic and I’ll inform you I’ve had an experience that was not good — and I’m pretty optimistic it was regarding the semaglutide — the place I wanted to go to the hospital for an impacted bowel … and I’m nonetheless not nervous about it.”
Fessler outlined that certainly one of many “undesirable unwanted side effects” of the drug is likely to be “constipation,” which she dealt with for a while nonetheless decided to brush off.
“I was ingesting no water, consuming no greens on account of one factor that happens, a model new experience for me, is with the flexibility to eat what I would like even when it’s not in all probability essentially the most healthful choices and nonetheless shed additional kilos,” she outlined. “So probably for the first time in my life, I’m shedding weight on pizza and bagels and ice cream.
“Having talked about that, I seen there was constipation, I didn’t do one thing about it. I wasn’t taking Miralax, that you just take every morning, or any type of stool softener,” she talked about. “I hadn’t gone in per week, then it was per week and a half.”
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However, she stopped her story mid-way by to admit that she was “accountable” for “ignoring” the symptoms and has since modified her strategies.
“I haven’t had a problem since,” she talked about.
When Goldschneider launched up that “muscle loss” was one different acknowledged side impression, Fessler revealed that she did lose some muscle and commenced going to the doctor “every month” to get it checked.
“Bodily, I actually really feel hundreds increased in clothes,” Fessler talked about. “As soon as I’m not in clothes I look 90 on account of I’ve gone up and down my higher than 20 kilos in my life … so there could also be a number of pores and pores and skin that exists now whilst you lose muscle and fat.”
“As soon as extra, I’ve to take accountability for that inside the sense that, you perceive, you don’t positioned on muscle whilst you merely lay horizontal in your mattress consuming chips. It doesn’t work like that,” she continued, noting that she simply these days employed a non-public coach.
Although Fessler spoke candidly about her willpower to go on the burden loss drug, Goldschneider voiced her disdain for the treatment, which she claims “higher than half” of the “RHONJ” cast is for the time being on.
“I’m an outspoken advocate for consuming dysfunction restoration and a extremely sturdy opponent of semaglutides for shedding these ultimate 10 kilos,” she outlined.
“I consider it’s a extremely dangerous improvement nonetheless out of respect for each other and our friendship, we now have in no way talked about it,” she continued.
Fessler, who moreover simply these days purchased a facelift and nostril job, first hinted that she was taking the favored drug in March whereas on “Watch What Happens Reside with Andy Cohen.”
By the taping, the actual fact TV star admitted that she misplaced “a number of weight” by taking “peptides” — nonetheless carried out coy when requested immediately if she was on Ozempic.
“You talked about it, I didn’t. Nonetheless … irrespective of works, proper right here I’m,” she joked.
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