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Posted on 01/26/2023 12:40:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Good for you on managing without medication. I have long read that vigorous exercise, diet and increasing social communication with others is an excellent alternative for mant persons with this issue.
There must be a lot of gym rats in Florida. I take supplemental testosterone for hypogonadism, but there always seems to be a shortage down here in Pensacola.
I just became a pharmacy tech in Chicagoland, and we get calls all day every day for Adderall and Ozempic and similar medications. It’s awful.
Rather than take some responsibility for their behavior, people want a magic pill to lose weight, taking life-saving meds from others.
Ozempic also causes diarrhea and nausea, which is another way you lose weight.
Same thing with Mounjaro, injectable med for diabetes, with side effect of weight loss, mostly related to appetite suppression. There’s a nationwide shortage, so all that is available is 2.5 mg dosage, which is not nearly as effective as the 5mg dose I’m supposed to take. Too bad that doctors weren’t so eager to prescribe ivermectin off label for covid, like they’re prescribing these diabetic drugs to overweight people who don’t even have diabetes. Without insurance, these meds are $1000 A month, so naturally drug reps are pushing it like crazy.
I have lost over 35 pounds on Ozempic. I am preventing my once inevitable diabetes from ever happening. If big pharma can make unlimited vaccines that I don’t want, they can ramp up production of Ozempic.
If you look carefully (as I did) you’ll see that the drug itself is made in Denmark. So whatever laws they have on the books there are the ones by which the company must abide. Also,I’ve read more than a few times that demand for it has recently skyrocketed mainly thanks to “the amply endowed”,leaving us diabetics in a bind.
RULES!
Not guilty!!
Novo Nordisk sources their semaglutide (the ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) from several places. For that sold in the U.S. they package it into the injector pens in a U.S. plant, that plant failed a FDA inspection months ago so the production was halted until they got their act together. That was what caused the supply shortage, not a shortage of the actual medicine.
It's not fat people denying you medicine, blame it on the manufacturer who can't get their act together to ensure an adequate supply. Obesity kills more people than diabetes if you want to rank who needs it the most. Wegovy is FDA approved for weight loss, it's pretty much the only weight loss drug on the market that actually works while there are many for diabetes. I'm sure all those obese people who have been trying to lose weight for years and now have something to help them wish they'd thought of eating a salad and taking a walk, if only they'd known it was so easy to lose weight they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble.
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