{"id":624586,"date":"2026-09-23T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624586\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:56:10","slug":"lawsuits-allege-ozempic-other-glp-1-medications-may-cause-sudden-vision-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624586\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits allege Ozempic, other GLP-1 medications may cause sudden vision loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 There are new questions about a rare eye condition possibly linked to popular GLP-1 drugs that are used for diabetes and weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Lawsuits allege that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound may be linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK559045\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy<\/a>, a rare optic nerve condition that causes sudden vision loss.<\/p>\n<p>One woman taking a GLP-1 for weight loss said she woke up one morning and had lost vision in her right eye. The woman, who works as a nurse practitioner, said she can no longer read, which has impacted her ability to do her job.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of other Americans are also suing the drugmakers, saying they weren&#8217;t adequately warned of the condition.<\/p>\n<p>However, the companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news\/drugmakers-face-lawsuits-alleging-glp-1-medications-caused-sudden-vision-loss-092226.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dispute<\/a> the claims and say there is no proof the medicine caused vision loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 There are new questions about a rare eye condition possibly linked to popular GLP-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3761,8441,163,8442,85,46,265,564,482,43,4179,8444,105,8443,8440,8445,1481],"class_list":["post-624586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}