Dozens of patients have contacted the ABC, reporting alarming side effects including vomiting blood and permanent tingling in their fingers after taking replica weight loss drugs.
Australians are reporting alarming side effects, including vomiting blood and nerve damage, after injecting replica weight loss drugs.
"I was ignoring the text messages and then I was blocking numbers. I finally answered one and I was like, 'can you please delete my number?' TCP targeted doctors worldwide via fax, with advertising material promising cheap compounded versions of weight loss medications that many of their patients wanted.In Australia, compounding pharmacies are meant to fill a gap in the market, providing one-off medications for patients with a script when there's no commercial product available.
The Adelaide woman was prescribed diabetes drug Mounjaro by a specialist who told her losing weight could help her sleep apnoea. That patient had elevated B6 levels that couldn't be explained. It was suspected the compounded medication from TCP could be the cause. "I started taking it straight away, and it really affected me. I don't know what it was doing, it was making me out of breath. Just standing up from my bed I would get dizzy," she said.
It's not known what conditions TCP was manufacturing the compounded medications in or where the active ingredients were being sourced from.In a statement released last month, the TGA said it would "continue to dedicate resources to investigate this matter and take appropriate enforcement action against anyone found to have breached the law".
"This included medical professionals in Australia and overseas being sent faxes promoting the medicines," it noted. Large quantities of Ozempic's active ingredient seized from Melbourne pharmacy amid TGA investigationDespite ongoing investigations into TCP, Mr Azzer last month begun to register companies in the UK under the same name as those he used to accept money for the replica weight loss drugs in Australia.
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