The relatively new drug safety issue of vision loss linked to Rybelsus and Ozempic was the subject of a recent medical study that had this stated Objective, or purpose: “To investigate the association between semaglutide use and the risk of NAION among patients with diabetes.” On March 27, 2025, the JAMA Ophthalmology medical journal published … [Read more...]
Ozempic Vision Loss Due to Increased Risk of NAION
Here is the most recent development concerning Ozempic vision loss and blindness: The European Union’s drug regulator said it would assess two new Danish studies that link Novo Nordisk’s popular diabetes drug Ozempic to a rare eye disease. The studies published earlier this week had found Ozempic significantly increases the risk of type 2 … [Read more...]
Syfovre Claims: Vision Loss and Blindness: Law / Legal
Syfovre claims for vision loss and blindness involving retinal vasculitis diagnosed after a patient’s first Syfovre injection are being filed as drug injury lawsuits. The basis for these product liability Syfovre lawsuits is the drug company Apellis Pharmaceuticals failed to warn about retinal vasculitis as a side effect until it revised the … [Read more...]
Ozempic Side Effects Include Eye Problems With Possible Vision Loss
In July 2024 we learned from a recent medical study that Ozempic side effects include eye problems with possible vision loss. More specifically, nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) has been linked to semaglutide — the active ingredient in Ozempic as well as Wegovy and Rybelsus. As such, this finding about the new NAION Ozempic … [Read more...]
Syfovre: Eye Problems After Injection of Syfovre (pegcetacoplan)
This blog post is about a 78-year-old woman with Syfovre eye problems involving vision loss in the first part of 2023. This Syfovre side effects case was reported in “Retinal vasculitis following intravitreal pegcetacoplan administration”, a medical journal article that appeared in the March 2024 edition of the American Journal of Ophthalmology … [Read more...]
Syfovre Eye Injury Cases Update One Year After First Reports: “Uncertain”
Beginning in April 2023, there have been reports of Syfovre eye injury cases, including retinal vasculitis resulting in significant vision loss. As of the beginning of April 2024, however, retina specialists seem to agree that both the etiology and the incidence rate of retinal vasculitis after Syfovre injections remain uncertain. Put in more … [Read more...]
Syfovre Eye Injuries Decreased Vision For Patients After Syfovre Treatments
Members of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) Research and Safety in Therapeutics (ReST) Committee recently issued a general report on cases where Syfovre eye injuries decreased vision for patients after Syfovre treatments. In summary, this report revealed that at least 13 patients had Syfovre retinal-related vision loss in … [Read more...]
Syfovre Vision Side Effects Cases Reported at Ophthalmology Meeting
A Syfovre vision side effects cases presentation was one of the most important at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) in San Francisco in early November. William J. Johnson, M.D., of the Wolfe Clinic in Iowa, reported on Syfovre vision side effects cases ranging from hemorrhagic occlusive vasculitis-type … [Read more...]
Syfovre Eye Injections Adverse Reactions Update August 2023
We have some new information about Syfovre eye injections adverse reactions causing vision loss and blindness from Apellis Pharmaceuticals and the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS). Apellis Pharmaceuticals said that it has confirmed seven cases of Syfovre eye injections adverse reactions. More specifically, these Syfovre vision loss … [Read more...]
Syfovre-related Vision Loss Reported In Patients After Their First Injection
Syfovre-related vision loss has been reported in patients after the first time they used a Syfovre injection treatment for geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In mid-July 2023 the American Society of Retinal Specialists (ASRS) issued a warning letter about Syfovre-related vision loss as well as some other … [Read more...]