"Kissable-Lickable Iguanas For Diabetics ™"
"No up-front costs. See if you pre-qualify today!"
Posted on 07/20/2005 11:01:06 AM PDT by Millee
Two new diabetes medications have helped some patients control their weight. Barbara Oster has had diabetes for 15 years, and her medication wasn't working so well, reported WBAL-TV in Baltimore.
"It just blows you up, makes you feel like you're gaining all this weight," she said.
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved two new diabetes drugs -- Byetta and Symlin -- that studies have proved help patients control their illness and cut back their eating.
"One of the lovely side effects of both drugs is people tend to lose weight," said Dr. Paula Yutzy, a diabetes educator at Baltimore's Mercy Medical Center.
Byetta comes from the saliva of a scary-looking lizard -- the Gila monster. The drugs mimic the effects of hormones, helping to regulate the disease by controlling liver functions and digestion, as well as making patients feel more full.
Yutzy said she's glad the medications have reached the public.
"When you have diabetes, you don't have cruise control, and so you have to monitor your blood sugar, watch what you're eating, take your medicine -- there's a lot more involved in staying at the right speed," Yutzy said.
The drugs have to be injected, but Oster said it's no big deal for most diabetics because the needles are tiny.
"The girls at work, when I stick my fingers, say, 'OK, let me get out of the room!' But it doesn't hurt," she said.
Patients still have to watch their diet, exercise and monitor their other drugs.
"It has taken a long time to bring this drug to market, but those of us in the diabetes world are very excited about it," Oster said.
Oster has only been taking Symlin for two weeks, but she said she already feels positive results.
No, I'm NOT GOING TO KISS A LIZARD!.........
"French Kissing a Gila Monster, for Fun and Profit" on sale soon, at Amazon.com.
what does it do? make you hurl when they tell you it is lizard spit?
After turning diabetic due to pancreatic cancer, I'd suck a fart out of a lizard's butt if it would improve my condition.
That mental imagery alone will fret ten pound off me. No wonder Matalin is so skinny.
The drug is synthetic, they just discovered by studying the saliva of the Gila Monster.
Spread it all over your pasta and it curbs your appetite remarkably well. ;)
"Kissable-Lickable Iguanas For Diabetics ™"
"No up-front costs. See if you pre-qualify today!"
Maybe so, but no more "unappetizing" than having to inject myself four (sometimes five) times a day, live on bland food that wouldn't interest a starving rat, lose my eyesight, get enormous scars from surgeries, completely lose the ability to perform (and then learn that the drugs that can help will accelerate your blindness) and have to worry that every cut or bruise may turn gangrenous.
You think I wouldn't do it if I thought it'd make a difference?
Hmmm this looks interesting.
Semper Fi
I think I sent you a copy of that off Yahoo some weeks ago...
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