15 articles
There is a used needle in a yogurt pot and two vials you will not use. The needle needs a hard container tonight, the vials go to a take-back option or your pharmacist, and the empty box needs your name scratched out first.
Sep 9, 2026
Three months in, there are handfuls of hair in the shower. Losing hair rapidly is a reason to see a provider, and shedding after a big change to the body usually eases over 6 to 8 months, though it can last longer.
You get burning in your chest at night now, and two of the printed warning signs, loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss, overlap with what your weight care changes. Those go to your prescriber with the burning, the other signs mean a doctor, and some chest pain means 911.
Your sister swears by a weight-loss supplement, and you have two bottles of your own from last year. FDA approved neither before it reached the shelf, and prescription drugs have been found hidden in such products, so show both to your prescriber first.
You have put on a good deal of weight since starting a medicine for your mood, and your psychiatrist has never mentioned it. Some medicines for depression are among those that may add weight, so raise it with the prescriber, and keep taking it as prescribed meanwhile.
Someone outside a pharmacy is offering the weekly injection you were prescribed for about a third of the pharmacy price. Here is what can go wrong with medicine bought this way, how to check a seller's license, and what to try when the price is the problem.
You have type 2 diabetes, your eye exam is two years overdue, and you are starting weight care. One weight medicine's label ties rapid improvement in blood sugar control to a temporary worsening of diabetic retinopathy, so book the exam now.
An hour after an injection your face went hot and hives came up, then faded. How much of the body was involved helps sort a severe reaction from a mild one, timing cannot rule a severe one out, and a severe reaction means calling 911 without waiting.
You take the pill, you have started a weekly weight medicine, and you might try for a baby next year. The labels of the two approved weekly weight medicines give different instructions on birth control and on when to stop, so which one you take decides what you do next.
Sep 8, 2026
You have had two rounds of bad pain under your right ribs since the weight started coming off. Fast weight loss can make gallstones more likely, an attack that has passed can come back, and some signs mean getting help tonight.
A short note when a new journal piece lands.
