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Leslie Gammon opened up about her GLP-1 overdose on the \u201cToday Show.\u201d \/ NBC\/Today Show<\/p>\n
In October 2025, Gammon began using the telehealth company, Amble.<\/p>\n
She said she was only in contact with her doctor through email, but received a vial of compounded GLP-1 drug and a syringe in the mail.<\/p>\n
Dr. Fatima Syed, an associate professor of medicine at Duke University and a medical weight management specialist at Duke Health in Durham, told NBC that compounded GLP-1 drugs are not reviewed by the FDA, unlike brand-name weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro.<\/p>\n
Yet these custom-made drugs are often prescribed by telehealth companies because of lower prices.<\/p>\n
Gammon, who had previously lost 18 pounds in four months with a GLP-1 prescribed through another telehealth company, noticed shortly that the new medication was not adequately suppressing her appetite.<\/p>\n
After two weeks, Gammon emailed her provider, who sent her a new vial with instructions to increase her dosage from 8 units to 46 units.<\/p>\n
“That sort of scared me,” Gammon told NBC. “I contacted the doctor, and I said this seems to be a little bit more than what I’m supposed to be taking. And then the response I got back, I think a day later, was just follow the doctor’s directions.”<\/p>\n
Because she was worried about the new amount prescribed, Gammon said she injected 30 units\u201416 units less than prescribed.<\/p>\n
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Popular GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy are FDA-approved, but some telehealth companies prefer prescribing compounded GLP-1s. \/ UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Gammon felt the effect on her body in two hours. She began throwing up and could not stop for days.<\/p>\n
“I was hurting, I mean, it hurt. I couldn’t talk, like, nearly a week after, my ribs felt like they were being beaten up,” she said.<\/p>\n
After visiting the emergency room, Gammon spent three days in the hospital.<\/p>\n
“I asked the doctor if I could be put in a coma until it was over,” she told the outlet, further recalling that the doctors told her boyfriend that Gammon had suffered a GLP-1 overdose.<\/p>\n
Gammon said she later heard from a nurse that the 46-unit prescription was almost five times the amount she should have been taking.<\/p>\n
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GLP-1 weight loss drugs are increasingly popular. \/ Lee Smith\/Reuters<\/p>\n
Although the worst symptoms began to ease, Gammon was unable to keep solid food down for the next month.<\/p>\n
NBC asked Gammon about who she thought was responsible for the GLP-1 overdose.<\/p>\n
“I think the doctor,” she said. “I think it was a mistake. They’re human, they make mistakes. But myself, too, as well. I should have educated myself more.”<\/p>\n
She added, “I’m not dumb. I mean, I have a college degree. I should have known.”<\/p>\n
Gammon said she contacted Amble about her hefty $9,000 hospital bill, but the company has yet to respond. She has since stopped using GLP-1 drugs.<\/p>\n
GLP-1 overdoses are a growing phenomenon.<\/p>\n
The symptoms might be similar to well-known side effects of GLP-1s, such as vomiting and diarrhea, and can lead to issues such as serious dehydration.<\/p>\n
The Looker reached out to Amble for comment but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54-year-old woman says she ended up at the hospital after taking a popular weight loss drug. Leslie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,283732,84,283731,377,7817],"class_list":["post-807966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gammon","tag-health","tag-leslie-gammon","tag-medication","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}