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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s really a shame these drugs are so expensive. We actually have a viable solution to the obesity epidemic here. [/quote]

There are a LOT of side effects. It's not a magic cure.[/quote]

For some people it essentially is, though. I have a close friend who has lost 45 lbs easily with minimal side effects. It is causing her to do some work in therapy because it is causing her to examine many years of self-flagellation about “self-control” that turned out to be inappropriate self-loathing; it turns out on Wegovy “self-control” is a non-issue. In other words what she perceived as a moral failing turned out to be a straightforward physical issue.

What is interesting is that though she has very good blood sugar levels (surprisingly good A1C for instance), she always believed that her blood sugar levels were hiding some pre-diabetic issues because she would occasionally have issues with hypoglycemia (measured with a pin prick). She has been tested for blood sugar issues many times but her fasting tests have always come back in very healthy ranges. But after about a month on Wegovy, after she adjusted (a couple of weeks) but before she lost significant weight, she was calling me to talk about how much generally “better” she felt. She wasn’t hungry all the time, wasn’t thinking about food all the time, but also as she said she just “felt better.” Her take on it is that she’s had low-level blood sugar issues for years, that were undetectable by normal A1C tests, but that the Wegovy alleviates. She had to stop Wegovy for about two weeks a month ago because of supply issues and not only did the food cravings come back, she said she felt a lot worse generally. She is trying to figure out what to do now because she doesn't want to stop the Wegovy even though she is almost at her goal weight because she feels so much physically better on it. Oddly her fasting A1C hasn’t changed much at all, but she hasn’t had any hypoglycemic incidents since she started.

I sort of wonder if there are a lot of sub clinical diabetics walking around out there, probably people who struggle with weight.

I keep asking her to do a DCUM AMA because I think folks would find it interesting but so far she isn’t interested. [/quote]

When did she start taking it? [/quote]

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