My cousin is a director of a large pharma company. Listening to him talk, in a positive vein, about his business, I always come away with the difference between him and the corner drug dealer: His firm pushes legal drugs. See, a drug dealer may sell you heroin which you use because it makes you feel good. It is illegal and not FDA controlled. My cousin’s firm sells/pushes drugs they say are good for you and are controlled (as in by patent).
Recently he was telling me his firm just lost the rights to a drug which has gone generic which will cost billions in revenues. I asked, based on experience, why not just make a drug that combines two, rename it, get a new patent and go forward. He laughed and said they used to do that but lost a court case on making such marketing ploys.
Seems I used to take one of these marketing ploys. My doc said he was told a “new drug” would allow me to take two drugs but in one capsul. Of course, the two by themselves had generics, the one capsule had the two generics being marketed as a propriety drug. I wonder if one of the drug sales reps in the short skirts who used to visit the doctors office representing drug companies suggested the single tablet concept to boost sales. Of course they did!
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last Sept. A1C was 12.5 I was in seriously bad shape. Overweight by about 50 lbs. Vision problems. Fatigue. Constant need to pee.
Went after it aggressively. In 3 months, blood sugar went from the initial diagnosis of 366 to an average of 115. Lost a bunch of weight. The smirking, smarmy doc then wanted to put me on injectables. When I said in essence, WTF, he then tried to push Invokana on me. I got up and left.
Now, my A1C is 5.7. I’ve dropped 45 lbs and feel great. I’ve been taking metformin, but I suspect that I’ll be able to drop that as well.
My water pill is a 2 stage drug Dyazide, 1 side protects from kidney damage the HCTZ stops fluid retention around heart.