UPDATE - We completely missed the symptoms
https://www.reddit.com/r/Retatrutide/s/H8IwWQHl9S
My wife is a type 2 diabetic. She has been on prescription Mounjaro (Tirzepatide) for a little over 3 years now. 7.5mg worked wonders at controlling her sugars and she certainly didn't mind the weight loss that came with it.
She had the normal gastrointestinal side effects that accompany any of the GLP-1s. It never even crossed our minds that her side effects could be anything else.
WHAT I AM ABOUT TO TELL YOU ISN'T FEAR MONGERING. I still believe in the GLP-1s, and I in no way believe they were the cause.
7 days ago my wife was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic colon cancer. She had all the symptoms and WE IGNORED THEM. The GLP-1 side effects are exactly the same as cancer symptoms. It never even crossed our minds that there might be something else going on.
3 days ago my wife underwent emergency surgery to remove 2 of the 3 tumors. She is weak, but stable. Hopefully she will be home by next weekend. We are gearing up for the biggest fight of our lives. It is a fight that the statistics say we can't win. We intend to prove them wrong.
I did not write this to scare anyone away from taking GLP-1s. I did write this in hopes that it will scare somebody in to scheduling that colonoscopy they have been putting off.
I do not believe that the Tirzepatide caused this, but I know it hid the symptoms, and we would have caught it sooner without it.
Please get your colonoscopy done. It might save your life