Dr Sheharyar Quraishi, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist exapkins what the common side effects might occur when people take GLP-1 inhibitors for Diabetes. He explains that doses are usually started at lower levels so any side effects are also lesser in effect and then increased gradually.
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Treatment is normally associated with nausea, sickness, GI side effects, body cramps, bloatedness. In rare circumstances, the GLP-1 can aggravate cold stones or cause inflammation of the pancreas. But the overall number remains very small, maybe one in 10,000. And normally patients are given an escalated dose with GLP-1, so they develop tolerance over a matter of weeks, which means you can start with a smaller dose which the risk of adverse side effects is smaller, but then the dose is escalated over a matter of weeks, so people can develop tolerance and the escalation is somewhere between four to six weeks.
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