Posted on 06/09/2021 9:00:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
It’s just a common diabetes drug with a new name and at a higher dose.
Hint, hint.
And a big, big price
The usual routine:
1 wonder drug announced.
2 drug sells like hotcakes.
3 side effects thst were suppressed in the trials documentation rear their ugly heads.
4 drug withdrawn.
5 No one is punished either at the FDA or the drug company for the fraud and damaged users.
“common diabetes drug ... higher dose”
which means one of two things:
A. one can expect it to cause hypoglycemia for those who already have normal or low blood sugar ...
B. It never worked as a diabetes drug ....
“My advice to you is to, uh, avoid any type of food product that your neighborhood supermarket might try to sell you.” - The Ladies Man (Tim Meadows), Saturday Night Live.
$15k per year, and may cause thyroid cancer and kidney failure.
Simpler and cheaper to just back off on the carbs.
yeah, i think i’d let Mikey try it first ...
Ping
Here’s a thought.
1. Eat less calories. Especially but not exclusively carbohydrates such as breads and pasta, alcohol, soda. Eat smaller portions. Stop eating at fast food places.
2. Burn more calories. Get exercise. Don’t drive so much.
It’s that simple.
And a new trademark protecting it.
Remember when PhenFen came out in the 1990s and was a game changer for weight loss? And it was effective at weight loss. About a year later they discovered it was also effective damaging cardiac valves.
at 333 dollars per injection apparently
Exactly what happens. Then the law firms hit the airwaves looking for victims.
Novo is notorious for holding their drugs in high esteem.
Be very careful of what your doctor prescribes as there are almost always alternatives that are more fairly priced. I see this as particularly true for maladies that are in vogue or common such as Type 2, HBP, chronic pain and arthritis.
If I cut the carbs and switch to fats I can eat until I feel sick at meals and lose weight.
Keeping to a reasonably low carb diet lets me maintain a good weight.
Don’t change what you stuff in the pie hole, take a shot and don’t worry about potential complications resulting from a type 2 diabetics drug that increases insulin production. Don’t quite understand that either as diebetics have problems processing insulin at cellular level. Why should anyone want them making more? Good medicine doesn’t mean good health unless it means production of a revenue stream.
WARNING: RISK OF THYROID C-CELL TUMORS
In rodents, semaglutide causes dose-dependent and treatment-duration-dependent thyroid C-cell tumors at clinically relevant exposures. It is unknown whether Ozempic® causes thyroid C-cell tumors, including medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), in humans as human relevance of semaglutide-induced rodent thyroid C-cell tumors has not been determined.
Ozempic® is contraindicated in patients with a personal or family history of MTC and in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2). Counsel patients regarding the potential risk for MTC with the use of Ozempic® and inform them of symptoms of thyroid tumors (eg, a mass in the neck, dysphagia, dyspnea, persistent hoarseness). Routine monitoring of serum calcitonin or using thyroid ultrasound is of uncertain value for early detection of MTC in patients treated with Ozempic®.
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