My father has T2 and ozempic has been amazing for him. He’s insulin-dependent, but his endocrinologist has told him that soon he’ll probably be able to drop the shots before meals and just do the 1x/day long-acting shot. It’s pretty amazing!
Glad to hear! That could save him up to 6 needles a day - a finger poke for blood sugar testing and an insulin injection, both x3 meals
I think the downside of these drugs (GLP-1 receptor agonists) is their marketing for weight loss. It’s another way of making our obesogenic society more profitable for drug makers while people keep getting more unhealthy and have increasing out-of-pocket medication costs
(Edit: claudication was not the feared diabetes complication I thought the headline was referring to. What about blindness, amputation, heart attack/stroke?)
