I Couldn’t Stop Throwing Up: Ozempic, Constant Vomiting, and the Trips to the ER

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Your Stomach Symptoms Were Real

If you took brand-name Ozempic, Wegovy, or Rybelsus and were diagnosed with a tested, documented stomach injury with an ER or hospital visit, you may qualify.

No Ozempic or other GLP-1 lawsuit has been settled, and no court or jury has found that these medications caused anyone's injury — the litigation is ongoing, with major expert-evidence rulings still ahead. Whether any individual has a claim depends on their own medical records and the law of their state.

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No Ozempic or other GLP-1 lawsuit has been settled, and no court or jury has found that these medications caused anyone's injury — the litigation is ongoing, with major expert-evidence rulings still ahead. Whether any individual has a claim depends on their own medical records and the law of their state. Do not stop, start, or change any prescribed medication because of anything on this page. Those decisions belong with your prescriber. Attorney Advertising.

Vomiting that will not stop — often of food eaten many hours earlier — is the symptom that sends most people with GLP-1 stomach injuries to an emergency room, usually for dehydration, uncontrolled nausea, or an inability to keep anything down. Those ER and hospital records matter more than most people realize: the referral criteria for stomach-injury claims require an emergency room visit or hospital admission connected to the injury. Federal GLP-1 stomach cases are consolidated as MDL 3094, where 4,025 cases were pending as of October 2026.

Reports submitted to FDA are not verified and do not establish causation.

What this actually looks like

It is rarely one dramatic episode. It is a pattern that grinds down over months: throwing up something you ate the night before, a body that just rejects solids, never knowing what will set it off. People stop eating in front of others. They keep a bag in the car.

Then something tips it over — a day of not keeping water down, a fainting spell, pain that gets frightening — and there is an ER visit. Then another. IV fluids, anti-nausea medication, bloodwork, sometimes an admission, often a discharge without a clear answer.

The downstream damage is worth naming, because people are frequently embarrassed by it: rapid weight loss and muscle wasting, weakness, teeth damaged by stomach acid, recurring dehydration, and the sheer cost — in money, in missed work, in time with family that got given up.

“They kept telling me nothing was wrong”

Being disbelieved is close to the standard experience here. People are told it is anxiety. They are told it is an eating disorder, sometimes for years, sometimes by specialists. They are told the medication cannot possibly still be doing this. Some are told, more or less, that people could see them eating so nothing could be wrong.

You are not the first person to be told this was in your head. Nothing on this page is a test of whether you are believable, and no part of a case review is designed to catch you out. The questions asked at intake are about dates and documents, not about whether the illness was real.

The drug worked. That’s what makes this hard.

Many people reading this got the result they were hoping for before the vomiting started, and some are still taking the medication now. Both things can be true. You can be grateful it worked and still be owed the truth about what it did.

Whatever your reason for taking it — that isn’t what this is about. What matters is what you were told about the risks, and what you weren’t. You did what your doctor and the label told you was safe.

Why the ER visit matters — and what it is not

The referral criteria for this track include a requirement that there was an emergency room visit or hospital admission connected to the stomach injury. It is worth being straightforward about why, because the requirement can land badly if it goes unexplained.

It is not a judgment that people who managed at home were less ill. Plenty of people were sicker at home for longer than someone else was in a hospital bed for two days. What an ER or admission record does is create contemporaneous, objective documentation — written by clinicians, at the time, for treatment reasons and not for a lawsuit. That is what a case is built from, and its absence is a proof problem rather than a credibility problem.

Practically: if you went in even once, even if they sent you home that night, it counts and is worth telling us about. Urgent care, infusion visits and repeat outpatient appointments are worth mentioning too, because what is in the chart is not always what you would expect.

If you never went in at all — you toughed it out, or had no insurance, or had been dismissed so often that going back felt pointless — say so anyway. That is a review path, not a closed door. It does not fit this referral track’s current criteria, and we will tell you so honestly, but criteria differ between firms and change over time.

The testing question, in one paragraph

If your diagnosis was gastroparesis, there is a second documentation issue you should know about: on August 15, 2025, the court overseeing these cases ruled that a gastroparesis claim must be supported by a properly performed gastric emptying study. Most people diagnosed with gastroparesis never had that test, because it is under-used in ordinary practice — that is a gap in how the condition is normally diagnosed, not a reflection on you or your doctor. We explain the test and what to do about it here.

Who may qualify today

• Brand-name Ozempic, Wegovy, or Rybelsus. Compounded or generic semaglutide, and Mounjaro, Zepbound or Trulicity, don’t fit today’s stomach-injury criteria — tell us anyway; criteria differ by track.
• Gastroparesis confirmed by a gastric emptying study, or gastric obstruction confirmed by other objective testing.
• Diagnosed while taking the medication, or within about 30 days of stopping.
• Diagnosed before December 31, 2024.
• An emergency room visit or hospital admission connected to the injury — one is enough.
• Age 75 or under at intake, and not already represented by another lawyer for this issue.
• Severe nausea and vomiting alone, without one of the diagnoses above, isn’t currently enough for this referral track. Tell us anyway — we would rather give you a straight answer than leave you guessing.

You are not suing your doctor

This is a claim against the companies that made and labeled the medication — Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. It is not a claim against the emergency physicians who treated you, your prescriber, or your pharmacy. The clinicians who documented those visits are the people whose records help a claim most.

Common questions

Related stomach-injury topics: bowel obstruction & ileus, feeding tubes, the gastric emptying study, and stomach paralysis (gastroparesis).