It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

[kerravonsen]

We live in a mad world, in which the actions of one person caused a cascade where not one single person considered the possible consequences of their actions. I don't know who the original person was, but there must have been one; the very first person to post on social media about the miracle weight-loss drug, Ozempic. (They didn't mention, or bother to find out, that its primary purpose was to treat diabetes.)

Wow, everyone said, this is amazing, I'm gonna tell everyone I know.

Wow, the newsmedia said, this would make a great story. It won't do any harm, and heck, we don't give a damn if it does any harm, that would make another great story.

Wow, many people said, I'm gonna bug my doctor to prescribe it to me "off-label" (that is, a prescription for a medicine which uses it for something other than what its official purpose is).

Sure, many doctors said, it won't do any harm, it's only for one (two, three, five) of my patients.

Worldwide shortage of Ozempic ensues.

Oh, many doctors said, I'll prescribe Trulicity to my diabetic patients instead.

Worldwide shortage of Trulicity ensues.

And that affects me. Which makes me mad.

Comments

[thewayne]

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the stomach paralysis cases that I heard about were people taking too much to increase weight loss.  While the news sources that I read are fairly trustworthy, frequently they lack detail that I'd like.  As far as taking it for life, that's definitely the weight control side rather than for diabetes.  I'm glad the Trulicity works well for you, I hadn't heard of that one.  Diabetes is not a thing in my family, I don't keep up on drug brand names in that field.