Gastrointestinal side effects may be serious enough to force patients to stop treatment, thus limiting the effectiveness of these medications [7]
These numbers come from separate clinical trial programs and should not be used as a direct head-to-head comparison
If youre consistently skipping meals, struggling to tolerate food, or noticing nausea, vomiting, dizziness, or fatigue that wont go away, its important to check in with a healthcare provider
Side effects are essentially nonexistent for most patients
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