Oh, goody, here we go again. They’ve now targeted metformin and insulin for a cancer scare. The last time they started the craze about using a diebatic drug for something else it was Ozympic and now you can’t find it. I had to go to another drug and I pray the media doesn’t find out or they will be advertising it as a diet drug also.
I don’t use metformin anymore but it is the normal starting drug for low level diabetese and many start on it that need help. And insulin is way out of line as using it will place those in a lowering of their sugar numbers and they can go into diabetic shock. And if some think the doctors can moderate it you are talking about a drug that reacts to food intake from a previous day, rest, stress, and other illnesses tht trigger the other factors.
And just like Ozempic, it will be hard to find for those that are actual diabetics and need it to stay alive. Somebody is going to get killed.
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Metformin is a pretty rough drug. Can get prettt ugly renal side effects if not careful. However, this far terzepitide and sister drugs only seem to carry the risk of MEN if you have a family history. It’s wayyyyy more endocrinologically active than we are giving it credit for is my thought.
Just like oncology, I think endocrine is coming into its golden age.