Country star Faith Hill's daughter says Ozempic helped ease her PCOS symptoms trends now
People are now using the popular weight-loss drug Ozempic to help their polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which causes enlarged ovaries with small cysts.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's daughter Gracie McGraw, 26, revealed she has been taking Mounjaro, another version of the drug, to ease her symptoms.
Mounjaro, the brand name for tirzepatide, is an FDA-approved prescription medicine for people with type 2 diabetes, but some doctors have started prescribing it off-label for weight loss.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) deems PCOS an obesity-related condition, leading some medical professionals to understand why Ozempic and other brands could ease symptoms.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's daughter Gracie McGraw, 26, revealed she has been taking Mounjaro, another version of the drug, to ease her PCOS symptoms
Gracie McGraw (far right) with mother (second from left) Faith Hill, father Tim McGraw and sisters at the TIME 100 Gala in New York City in 2015
Ms McGraw said in an Instagram comment last week: 'I did use Ozempic last year, yes. I am now on a low dose of Mounjaro for my PCOS as well as working out.'
She previously said: 'I am on medication for PCOS and it has regulated my hormones and metabolism.'
Ms McGraw first revealed her diagnosis in March last year. She said: 'I just wanted to share really quick that I have recently been diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome).
'To get the correct diagnosis you would need two out of the five characteristics of PCOS, and I had four.
'During my appointment with my endocrinologist, I realized that may [have] been a factor in my issues with weight, so we decided to try a medicine to regulate my body more normally and create the tools to continue to keep my body and myself healthy as I get older.
'I’m learning to navigate the new blemishes but I don’t think that I would have ever allowed myself to go to a doctors appointment like this unless I had taken the correct steps toward my mental health, because as much as physical health is important, mental goes hand and hand.'
She added: 'The medicine I’m taking has given me a body I haven’t had in years (maybe ever?) in a good way though. It’s weird to see how your body can change so rapidly but I’m finding new ways to love her and new things to love about her every day.
'I was prescribed Qysmia and Ozempic (Ozempic is also given to patients who are diabetic, I am not
