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Are ozemic babies a real thing?

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Beware of ozemic babies.

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There was a recent article that came out and said that you might have an increased risk of getting pregnant if you're on ozemic.

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The reason for that is as follows.

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Ozemic on this class of medications helps you lose weight through delayed gastricymptic, meaning food moves more slowly from the stomach to the intestines.

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You feel more full, you eat less, you lose weight.

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But that delayed gastricymptic can also affect how well absorbed your oral contraceptive pill is.

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So if it doesn't get absorbed, your ability to get pregnant may be higher.

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The short answer is yes they can be, but let's take a look at what the manufacturers are saying.

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This is from Eli Lilly. It's the prescribing information for tersepartide, which can be found online.

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And in their prescribing information, they put this recommendation that females using oral contraceptives,

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AKA the birth control pill, switched to either a non-oral contraceptive method,

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or add on a barrier method of contraceptive for four weeks after starting manjaro and for four weeks after each dose escalation.

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And this is something that Lilly actually studied.

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They looked at both Tylenol and birth control absorption.

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And what they saw was that there was decreased absorption of birth control and Tylenol the first four weeks after starting a medication and after dose increases.

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Interestingly, when you look at the prescribing information for other GLP1 medications, for example,

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this is from Novo looking at semagletide, they do not state the same observed decreased absorption of oral contraception.

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They do get the same vague warning of because of the delayed gastric emptying.

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There may be the potential to impact the absorption of medications, but they also state that this has not been observed in trials with semagletide.

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So, yeah, Ozempic and manjaro babies can definitely be a thing, and manjaro clearly states on their prescribing information that a backup method should be used those first four weeks when decreased absorption of a contraceptive pill is observed to be greatest.

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And the other thing too is that weight loss in general can improve fertility and increase the chances of you becoming pregnant.