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    5 days ago

    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?)