Having lots of back pain by my kidney and now spreading .

OUCH ... after 2 months on OZEMPIC, I ended up in hospital with Pancreatitis. My 38 year old daughter was on Ozempic for 3 months and ended up in hospital in excruciating pain and had her gall bladder removed.
Neither of us had any symptoms previously. Neither of us was obese, but wanted to lose a little weight. Ozempic sounded too good to be true and it was

Ronc531, CT is better for soft tissue, glad you are repeating it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8039426/
You aren't advised to stop Ozempic abruptly because of rapid rises in blood sugar. You might talk to your prescribing doctor about easing off of it until there is better understanding of your increasing pain.

I wouldn't stop without a doctor advising me.

I've been taking it for 7 or 8 years now. never had a problem with it.

But i will bring it up to my doctor. My CT scan showed I had Pancreatitis before

I would like to say I take it for my diabetes, it has helped a lot to control it. I've even been able to get off a couple other meds I was taking.

I think anything you take can have side effects.

I know that Ozempic can be a very helpful drug to those suffering from Diabetes. I believe that it was intended for that purpose.
Keep well,

What can a person with stage 3 ckd do day before a colonoscopy e.g drinks apart from water and soup. Nervous as it's only been 2 months since diagnosed and my first colonoscopy with ckd.
Thank you. Looking forward to hear from this wonderful page with wonderful people.

Yes, that is what is was approved for. It isn't approved for weight loss.

One of the issues I've had is that there was a shortage because people were buying it for weight loss.

@ronc531 welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. What did you have a CT scan of and why? You mentioned “little changes a little grow but not too much”. You also mentioned “kidney cancer stage 4”. Have you been diagnosed with Kidney Cancer stage 4? I want to make sure I understand. There may be a group and / or discussion that deals more specifically with Kidney Cancer. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) doesn’t usually cause the kind of pain that you are describing.
In regards to Ozempic, it is a medication used to treat Diabetes as you know. One of it’s side effects is weight loss and as you noted lots of people are using it for that but that wasn’t what it was designed for. I am unaware of Ozempic being related to pancreatitis, gall bladder issues or causing pain.

@karina1954 I have stage 4 CKD since 2016. I’ve had a colonoscopy since that time. If you’ve never had one before I’ve got to say that the prep is worse than the procedure itself. If anything the prep is good for your kidneys because you will be avoiding red meat, having soft foods, then clear liquids (avoiding red or purple fluids) and consuming SO much clear liquids as part of the pre-med. it not only cleans out your GI system; it thoroughly flushes your kidneys in the process. My hopes and prayers are with you that it all goes well!

The prep suck!

the first time didn't work and had to do it a second time and drink 2 gallons of the prep liquid, worst tasting stuff ever.

that still didn't work so they finally had me swallow a small camera to go through my system.