I’m not going to tell anyone to take or not take the drugs in question, I will say this be aware of who is paying for and producing the reports of fantastic new uses for these drugs and what the ultimate goal is of these studies
IMO, if you traced the funding of these studies you would find it’s the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing these drugs with the ultimate goal to expand their use by getting Medicare and other health insurance companies to pay for the drugs by requiring coverage
Given how the USA has an major epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease what better way to help resolve these problems than requiring third party payment instead of lifestyle changes
It’s the skeptic in me that thinks any deal to good to be true probably is
I agree with you completely. Every person reacts to every drug differently and you can’t say that because it works for me it’s going to work for you. One of the reasons I wrote how it did work for me is that I dislike the other side of the discussion being lopsided. When everyone talks about the negative side-effects, someone has to say when the stuff DOES work. Two sides to everything and I had been seeing conversations that felt totally off-balance.
I don’t like taking meds. Never have. Drag my tail and avoid whatever I can. But I’ve hit 80 years old this year and don’t have a lot of options. Took 6 months before I agreed to let them experiment with the Rybelsus on me. Just because it worked doesn’t mean I won’t fight the next pill they try to give me just as hard.
Diabetes runs in our family. Father died at 49 from it. Brother is late 80’s and has it bad. Since I’ve always refused insulin, it’s pretty amazing to find something that seems to be protecting me at my age.
I have been on Mounjaro since it came out, and its worked great for me.
My family literally is larger than average. My great grandfather and all his children each weighed over 350 pounds. My great uncle, Elmer “Big Bones” Remmer, (the black sheep of the family and part of the California mob) was the person about whom the mob term “whale” was coined.
While I was never that large, I weighed more than 200 pounds in the 9th grade, and ultimately maxed out at about 260. Like all but one of my siblings, I developed diabetes and sleep apnea as an adult. I had a heart issue requiring a stent from stress when my now-ex wife first cheated on, and then left me.
My doctor put me first on Ozempic, and then on Mounjaro when it came out. On Mounjaro, I lost about 35 pounds over the first 9 months, plateaued for a while, then recently lost about another 10 pounds. At 65, my A1C is good, I feel much better with the weight off, and haven’t had any further heart issues.
All with no side effects that I have noticed. So its been literally a lifesaver for me.