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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Don’t need the weight loss. If people don’t need weight loss and go on Ozempic, they often get low blood sugar and don’t feel very well. So they don’t really want to be on it anyway.“For the most part, doctors are not recklessly giving this medication to people who don’t need the weight loss.” —Jeff TollHave you encountered any difficulties in supplying the drug?Definitely, it’s really hard to get them. And sometimes, some of the drugs in the class are harder to get for some time, then the manufacturer makes more, and the other ones are harder to get. In our practice, we have a bunch of care coordinators who are on top of all aspects of people’s care, including how they can get their medications. They’ve been able to sort of navigate that, but I imagine a lot of practices are having difficulty right now. And I imagine there are people having trouble finding it independently.Are you more optimistic about Ozempic and generic semaglutide over previous “miracle” drugs?Yeah, I think so. Anything that is an amphetamine or amphetamine-like drug will have inherent risk of harm to it; it can lower your appetite but potentially have all sorts of side effects, including anxiety and insomnia. The nice thing about Ozempic is that it’s a drug that’s metabolically beneficial. So it’s not causing weight loss through some bad side effect; it’s actually improving our metabolism, helping us lose weight, and lowering our appetite. Hopefully, the FDA is tracking all this over a period of at least 10 years, similarly to how they tracked its impact on diabetics. Hopefully, we make sure that the track record continues to be safe, but this one appears to be much safer and more beneficial than other drugs like Fen-Phen were in the 90s.
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