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  Just look at some of the comments here alone. Many people saying “stop being lazy and move more” as opposed to accepting that obesity is out of many peoples control and some people are even genetically predisposed to be overweight. Ive seen and read about fecal transplants as a way to change the bacteria in your belly to help with obesity. 
  For many people it is not a matter of “move more, eat less”.
context: I was on a migraine medication that is also popular for weight loss. I did lose a lot of weight, which wasn't bad but I also would sometimes not feel my nose, had weird out of body feelings sometimes and boughts of nausea. Finally stopped taking it because I realized it really did live up to its nickname dopamax. >
  
  Oh God Topomax is awful.  I have been on that in the past and it really does affect your memory and cognition. >
  
  Same with Sumatriptan. >
  
  Sumatriptan is a nasty drug.  Temporary relief that builds into rebound headaches when you take it too often. >
  
  Sumatriptan, rebound headaches are the worst! Sumatriptan - Imitrex does work great with minimal side effects but you have to be very careful with it and only take a small dose in frequent if you don’t want those horrid rebound headaches >
  
  articles like this will increase the popularity of Ozempic as a weight loss drug. The irony. >
  
  Well they mention it like 10x during commercials, so seems to be the plan.  How else they gonna be able to overcharge and things like that. >
  
  Oh oh oh, ozempic
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  I'm guessing this is why my doctor was asking me yesterday whether my pharmacy was having difficulty delivering my trulicity to me. I had a three month supply so I haven't had to fill it lately. Here's hoping I can get it when I need it. >
  
  I'm on ozempic, my pharmacy gives me a month's supply even though it's supposed to be 3 months. The hassle between them and insurance has been epic >
  
  I’m not on ozempic but it really is fucked how any step of the process can just override your doctor and say nope! This is all you’re getting! Or just refuse to dispense/cover a drug at all, even if they’re not supposed to. Appeals and bureaucracy don’t mean shit when you need your medicine TODAY. >
  
  I am an obesity and weight management researcher. Although I have worked on studies involving diabetes, most of my work is explicitly focused on weight management, eating, and obesity rather than diabetes itself.
  Because of that, my NIH funding comes through NIDDK, the institute focused on diabetes. Most researchers and clinicians are excited by being able to use this class of drugs for folks with obesity and overweight. It likely would have a bigger impact on diabetes than as a direct treatment for diabetes. The problem with finding them varies based on the specific drug but often relates to the actual delivery mechanism rather than the drug itself being in shortage. But that varies. The use for cosmetic reasons is very questionable, but also not likely to be a major driver of shortages.
  Unfortunately obesity (and to a lesser extent diabetes as well) is often treated as a moral failing like drug and alcohol abuse with people more focused on blaming the folks with it rather than on actual effective solutions. Not only is this unhelpful, but it also involves an extremely simplistic understanding of both the biological and behavioral factors involved. It's always so disheartening to see.