EXENATIDE vs ORAL SEMAGLUTIDE

60yr SW 95kg GW 70kg After 5 months I’ve achieved my goal weight. I’ve not been this weight since a teenager. Tried every diet over the years but only had temporary success. Always struggled with food noise. Retired early as a GP in the UK due to MH in 2022. Turned 60 earlier this year & finall

I'm just curious. The more I experience this pain and weakness the more I realize this is what sleep deprivation is. Without proper restorative sleep you get the exact same symptoms. Poorer sleep leads to a disruption in hormonal levels which makes sense why this affects more women then men. They

I just finished reading an *excellent* series of blog posts about how the fear of insulin is mostly bullshit. I wanted to understand the articles better, and contribute to fittit, so I went through each article and summarized them the best as I could in layman terms. All of them are worth a read, an

Since we can't submit links on this sub, I'm pasting an interesting article I saw today. It's by Sarah Zhang for the Atlantic. Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting

Fair warning: this will be a long post filled with data and graphs and some potentially controversial commentary. You may feel the urge to express how I am doing something wrong, not eating enough, etc. I’ve seen and read it all so it will fall on deaf ears here, but have at it I suppose. I plan to

My health plan formulary updates for GLPS! As a PA tech, not looking forward to alllllll the calls and PAs we’re about to get lol -GLP medications for diabetes will require step-therapy on October 1 2023. This update applies to dulaglutide (Trulicity), exenatide (Bydureon and Byetta), liraglutide (

Invex Therapeutics # Background Invex Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company incorporated on the 8th of March in 2019 which is repurposing an orphan drug (Exenatide) for initial use in the indication of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH). A basic understanding of the sc

Commented on the Novo Nordisk post on LinkedIn and this was the response I got! They're both Novo Nordisk drugs, too

For the analysis, Prime Therapeutics excluded patients with type 2 diabetes to focus on obesity treatment. Nearly half of the patients were prescribed Novo's injected Ozempic or Wegovy, both of which contain the active ingredient semaglutide. Others were taking Saxenda (liraglutide), an older Novo G