32 Common Items That Are So Widely Misused You Might Not Even Know Their Original Purpose

We use the plastic yellow egg things the toys from Kinder eggs come in now

It still counts as running.... away from your housework

To be fair, you can also use it to bring herbs if you want to do that. Is even quite practical. I have one that looks like a fat round cat, and I don't even drink, let alone smoke anything.

My 76 yr old mother with diabetes relys on Ozempic and will some times have to go without for a week or two because the pharmacy is out. Very concerning just for someone else's vanity.

Ozempic is FDA approved for weight loss, it just got renamed Wegovy for marketing purposes. I'm a prescriber, and at least here in Connecticut, they both have pretty good availability right now. What's more difficult it getting it covered by insurance. Very expensive, and when prescribed for weight loss, it's usually not covered.

Keep in mind. The pharmaceutical companies can increase production fairly rapidly with their available resource base, but won't because artificial scarcity and quarterly savings are more important than your life.

I can't comprehend how egoistic people are who take it without a prescribtion of a doctor. But I never understood why some people are ready to risk their health for their looks either. That stuff could have impact on other medication or cause completely new health problems just like any other meds can. However I bet if the same folks get prescribed a drug for actual health problems, they want to know if there are any sideeffects and if there are some "natural ways" for healing, so they don't have to ingest "those bad chemicals". Like the ones getting botox injections but flip about getting a flu shot.

My health is being jeapardized due this shortage. I'm hoping that the company that makes Ozempic will make more for those of that need it!! Both diabetes and weight problems. It's so scary to be honest.....

American health system is quite something...

Always wondered how Jabba the Hutt would have done with ozympic. No doubt he wouldn't share

Let's not forget that using these kinds of meds for weight loss instead of the intended purpose is causing stomach paralysis and if you discontinue using it you regain the weight

Obesity is the underlying issue for everyone taking ozempic regardless of whether they have clinical indicators of type 2 diabetes yet or not. Type 2 diabetes is caused by obesity so you can look at using ozempic for weight loss as diabetes prevention. From that standpoint, it's better to treat obesity before irreversible insulin resistance (the cause of type 2 diabetes) develops. Type 1 diabetics use insulin, so who uses Ozempic or why doesn't affect them. The increased use of sensors by nondiabetics seems to have made them cheaper, more widely available, and more sophisticated. There really aren't that many type 1 diabetics (comparatively speaking), but the fitness industry is huge. In the case of sensors, a broader spectrum of demand has resulted in better products.

Using a medication to lose weight is not vanity. That is an ignorant and uninformed opinion that is not supported by science. Obesity is a medical condition that affects millions of people, most of whom have struggled their entire lives. You need to get educated so you don't continue with your erroneous belief.

When my doctor recommended me to a weight loss counselor to discuss the different drugs available (Ozempic, Saxanda and 3rd one I can't recall the name of), the counselor said straight out that unless I actually had diabetes, I wasn't getting Ozempic.

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Pharmacys should give to diabetic patients first.

I read somewhere when I first went on Wegovy (needed because I was extremely overweight and have now lost 130lbs) that it was the injector that was more scarce than the medication itself. I thought that made more sense, but I don't recall the source. And my insurance covered it. I am not an elitist or anything like that and would NEVER have been able to afford it and would still be struggling. I actually had bariatric surgery 15 years ago and lost maybe 50 pounds from that which left me still obese. I am hoping that will make me unlikely to have issues from the stomach paralysis another poster mentioned.

Because if you can afford it you probably aren’t aware it wasn’t made “just” for your lazy aßß.

oh oh oh ozempic!

There's this thing called diet and exercise. It works pretty well.

What’s preventing the companies from ramping up production? That’s the real issue here.

I had trouble getting Trulicity because so many doctors had to switch patients from Ozempic to Trulicity because Ozempic was out of stock due to so many who were taking it to lose weight.

This just ticks me off. My hubby NEEDS his shots to stay alive, and yet we have to work so hard to get them.

Jokes on them. The weight comes back with a vengeance once you stop taking semaglutides. Can you really afford to take it for the rest of your life? Why not just stop drinking soda, eating a diet that's almost completely ultra-processed food, and cut back on added sugar. And for God's sake go outside. Problem solved. And don't come at me about poverty and food deserts. If you can afford Ozempic, you can afford to eat right. This is addressed to people taking Ozempic out of vanity and laziness, not people with bona fide medical issues causing obesity.

People get soooo pissed off when you point out that it’s vanity too. If they care so much about health, why can’t they just eat healthily and exercise?

Also not recommended for your ear canal

We live in a world now where one app can require reading hundreds of pages of Ts&Cs. It's ridiculous and needs to be sorted out. It is not the fault of the consumer.

Yeah that's where baking pans go.

I use mine for weighing foster kittens =)

You want clean ear canals, the nurse at the clinic I went to recommended Debrox. It comes as a little kit with the Debrox drops and a little squeeze bulb. Huge game changer for me. Followed the instructions to the letter and my ear wax is gone.

In the pictured example. Strangely, the brick and the Benzoate of Soda are both shelf stable so they could have easily included it with the brick but they didn't. Hmmmmm....

Archaeology major. Can confirm: the agricultural revolution happened because beer.

Oh, good god......🥴

But it tastes so much better when baked.

CERTAINLY NOT ONE OF THE KINDS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE!!!!!!! I sure love shattering my pelvis. /s

As an adult wth bowel issues, electrolyte drinks are a must. Luckily in Japan they sell non-flavored electrolyte drinks. They even come in gel style packs.

I've never used my hydroponics kit to grow pot (which is legal where I am). I actually grow veggies. You should try it. Much cheaper than using the grocery store and you get fresh year-round produce.