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Semaglutide has been on the market since 2017 and clinical trials commenced in 2008. So we have a fair amount of data on longer-term users. It wasn't being used
by tyre 3y ago
Semaglutide has been on the market since 2017 and clinical trials commenced in 2008. So we have a fair amount of data on longer-term users. It wasn't being used for general obesity until recently.
- onionisafruit 3y agoMy doctor has been prescribing it for obesity for about five years.
- bamboozled 3y agoDoesn’t work for everyone. I have relatives on it. Still big. The best improvement they made was giving up alcohol.
- fragmede 3y agoGiving up alcohol is huge though
- bamboozled 3y agoYeah, I just meant that they've done both, Ozempic and Alcohol, it was a noticable change after giving up the alcohol, awesome weight loss, the Ozempic hasn't changed a lot.
- fragmede 3y agothe belief is that the ozempic is what's allows the giving up of alcohol
- mmcnl 3y agoBut has it had long-term studies as a weight-loss drug instead of a diabetes treatment? The results might be different.
- fragmede 3y agoit might be, but the question is if there's some long term bad effect, like it causes brain bleeds if you take it for 20 years or something. I don't think patients taking it for weight-loss instead of diabetes changes the underlying biological processes that happens as a result of taking the medication, so long term studies based on diabetes patients is useful information for non-diabetes patients.