I can add another unpleasant side-effect to the list I suffered after starting weight loss injections: NADINE DORRIES

On Saturday, I wrote astir my acquisition connected 1 of nan caller Ozempic-like weight-loss jabs. It was accompanied by a photograph showing nan melodramatic translator successful my fig aft conscionable 4 weeks.

Despite immoderate unpleasant side-effects, I shared pinch Mail readers my delight astatine nan results and really I felt I'd turned my life and wellness around.

I'm surely nary snowflake erstwhile it comes to maltreatment connected societal media but moreover I was taken backmost by nan response.

'Stop taking narcotics that should beryllium utilized to dainty group pinch diabetes,' admonished 1 post. 'Well done connected your support for Big Pharma,' sneered another. Yet another: 'Why don't you lose weight successful a bully way, pinch fare and exercise.' (Like I hadn't tried that!) And these are conscionable immoderate of nan milder comments.

It would look that fat-shaming women has now been replaced by jab-shaming. You don't person to beryllium a personnel of Mensa to activity retired that nan mostly of users of nan caller injections are women, truthful instrumentality retired nan ducking stool!

Since I started my play injections of Mounjaro — I'm now six weeks successful and 14 lb down — and person been speaking astir it openly, galore women, young and old, person confided successful maine that they, too, are utilizing nan jabs.

The quality is that they are doing it successful secret. They haven't told husbands, partners, friends aliases family, contempt nan truth that most, for illustration me, had semipermanent wellness issues which impacted some their day-to-day wellbeing and longevity.

Some were embarrassed, immoderate ashamed. One female whispered: 'I consciousness arsenic if I'm cheating, and nary 1 likes a cheat.'

I've learned that being a fare bore and picking astatine a lettuce leafage is acceptable — but, whoa, it's decidedly not done to admit that 'I jab my belly erstwhile a week and nan weight is dropping off'.

What you are really saying is: I'm receiving maximum use pinch minimal effort. And that conscionable isn't on.

We are women. We are expected to beryllium martyrs. Inflicted pinch unpredictable hormones, we were calved to suffer.

And God forbid that vanity should beryllium our information — which mostly seems to beryllium nan assumption.

I turned to nan jabs aft my GP flagged up respective wellness concerns. I was two-stone overweight, pre-diabetic, pinch cholesterin levels refusing to autumn to an acceptable level moreover connected statins, and signs of non-alcohol-related fatty liver disease. Plus I'd already had a hep replacement.

Every female I've spoken to has her ain communicative to show astir their weight issues. Menopausal women who find shifting pounds truthful overmuch harder than they did erstwhile younger. Women who juggle careers pinch moving homes and raising children, who can't find nan clip for a haircut, fto unsocial fresh successful a fare and workout regime.

Women who are carers, giving almost each of their power to personification else. One young female told maine that she had polycystic ovary syndrome, pinch accompanying insulin resistance, which made losing weight an moreover greater situation for her.

And yet these women each felt that by turning to nan jabs they were doing thing wrong.

This cannot continue. One successful 4 adults successful England is obese. Overweight patients costs nan NHS almost £7 cardinal a year. Extra poundage is simply a thief of lives and joy, linked to a agelong database of chronic and life-threatening disease, from diabetes, changeable and crab to associated problems, mediocre intersexual function, intelligence wellness issues... and connected and on.

During nan pandemic, we learned that obesity tripled your consequence of being hospitalised and was linked to accrued fatality from nan virus.

As a erstwhile nurse, I understand nan very existent interest of doctors that Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are being utilized by individuals who aren't overweight but conscionable want to suffer a fewer pounds for cosmetic reasons — and spot nan jabs arsenic a fast-track measurement to do it.

And, yes, unscrupulous online pharmacies and clinicians who are prescribing them to group who don't meet nan objective criteria should beryllium clamped down on.

But let's not suffer show of those group whose wellness these jabs person nan powerfulness to transform.

My proposal to women reasoning astir utilizing them is to activity aesculapian proposal first, do your investigation and beryllium alert of nan side-effects earlier you commencement — and, importantly, to beryllium honorable astir having nan jabs if that is what you determine to do.

That way, you will beryllium an inspiration and an encouragement to different women.

We request to telephone retired jab-shaming and nip it successful nan bud now, because galore women's lives whitethorn dangle connected it — and truthful does our NHS.

Harsh to beryllium axed for a sex 

I am nan butt of jokes successful my location erstwhile it comes to sport. I can't count nan number of times I've been asked 'Aren't location dishes to beryllium done?' whenever I've tried to subordinate successful a speech astir cricket aliases football. It ever gets a laughter — not slightest from me.

But possibly I should cancel members of my family, conscionable for illustration Eurosport cancelled seasoned sports commentator Bob Ballard aft he made a quip astir nan Australian women's 4x100m freestyle relay squad — who'd conscionable won Olympic golden — taking their clip to time off nan Paris Aquatics Centre.

'You cognize what women are like... hanging around, doing their make-up,' he joked. Yes it was ill-judged. But kicking him retired of nan Games, pinch presumably career-damaging consequences, is acold worse.

When nan caller bid of Strictly — nan 20th — kicks disconnected adjacent month, it's going to beryllium down to america devoted fans to spiritually raise nan show up to its glitterball heights again aft nan scandals of nan past fewer months. I'm judge we won't fto nan caller harvest of celebrities and their master partners down.

The Conservative activity title is nether way. I'm saying nothing…yet.