Shocking photos show the moment a single mom nearly died in front of her children after injecting herself with a “counterfeit skinny jab” she purchased off the internet.
Michelle Sword, 45, collapsed and suffered a seizure at her home in September when her blood sugar dropped to dangerously low levels following her self-administering of the drug.
The mom-of-two — who hails from Oxfordshire, England — did not name the specific shot she injected, but said it came from a family of drugs known as GLP-1 RAs. Drugs in that category include semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy.
Sword told Kennedy News that she had tried the drug “legitimately” back in 2020 and found that it helped her lose weight.
Earlier this year, Sword says she started piling the pounds back on and decided to obtain the medication without a doctor’s prescription.
“I knew it was very popular now and would be harder to get [from a doctor],” she stated. “It was coming up on my newsfeed all the time.”
“I contacted this one company [online] and asked if it was the official weight-loss drug and they said yes,” the mom further explained, saying it was selling for $190. “It looked exactly the same and two days later it was at my door. There was no questions asked about me — no medical questions. They didn’t even ask me how much I weighed.”
Sword injected her first shot of the drug — which she now believes to be an internet fake — on Sep. 20 and began feeling unwell just 15 minutes later.
“I started to feel strange,” Sword said. “I felt disoriented and strange and unbeknown to me I was sweating. My daughter Cadie said at this point I was mumbling and my eyes looked different. “
Afterward, the mom lost consciousness prompting her young daughter to run to a neighbor’s house for help.
Realizing Sword’s condition was dire, the neighbor phoned for an ambulance, with paramedics arriving on the scene and rushing the mom to a nearby hospital.
“They were trying to administer liquid glucose but nobody could get anything into my veins so they started squeezing glucose gel in my mouth,” the traumatized mother claimed. “Apparently I regained consciousness in the ambulance and they were trying to feed me pastries to up my blood sugars… It was an out-of-body experience for me. I could hear people saying my name but I was just mumbling.”
Sword subsequently lost consciousness again and was rushed into the emergency room when she arrived at the hospital.
“I think all my levels were going crazy at this point — my heart rate, sugar levels, potassium levels,” she stated.
The Brit revealed that her blood sugar levels dropped to 0.6mmol/l. According to the the UK’s National Health Service, the target range for blood glucose is 4 to 7mmol/l.
“It took about an hour and thankfully my blood sugars came up and I got out of the danger zone,” Sword stated. “I regained consciousness and they said to me you are lucky to be alive. Doctors said they’d never seen anyone survive 0.6 blood sugar levels and that I was a miracle.”
Sword believes the injectable she used actually contained pure insulin, causing her levels to drastically drop.
“I was told my children would’ve come home to a dead body if no one was in [the house at the time she passed out],” the mom dramatically declared.
She is now warning others not to purchase drugs over the internet, urging those who want to try Ozempic to go through legitimate means.
“I’m incredibly embarrassed I put myself in that situation,” she said. “Nothing is worth losing your life over. I apologized to my kids and said I’m so sorry. I’m so angry and ashamed at myself. I will never do anything like this again. It’s not worth taking a gamble with your life.”
Sword’s story comes just a month after health authorities warned of the drastic rise in fraudulent Ozempic pens around the wold.
Several weeks ago, several people in Austria were hospitalized from injecting themselves with a pseudo substance.
Like Sword, the patients suffered hypoglycemia and seizures, indicating that the pens contained insulin instead of semaglutide.
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