Every one of us who has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes has seen this Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES9XjAg09U
Every one of you who, like me, would like something MAGIC to happen if I do something simple like drinking lemon water after I get up in the morning.
And just like me, you have a healthy aversion to being conned.
But, maybe like me, I sometime wonder if the Medical Establishment IS conning me to sell Metformin; and in my case…well, it was one of the biggest shocks of my life.
My doctor suggested I start taking the solid form of Ozempic; it’s called Rybelsus. I talked about my adventures with it in this entry: Guy's Gotta Talk -- About DIABETES; breast cancer, Azheimer's: GUY’S GOTTA TALK ABOUT…TYPE 2 DIABETES #23: Ozempic, Rybelsus, and Me
So, he increased it a couple times, and at this last checkup, I A1c had dropped from 7.7 to 6.8!!! I was thrilled. He upped it one more time, I suppose thinking that “more is better”. I had the prescription for 14 mg (double my most recent prescription) of Rybelsus filled. I went to pick it up, and when the pharmacist tendered it, in addition to my cheaper meds, I had to pay over $535 for the new prescription! I about fainted!
I was even more stunned, when I read on the receipt that the RETAIL price for my three-month prescription of Rybelsus was… $3420.99! (I’d add about thirty exclamation points here, but I don’t feel like wasting perfectly good ranting space!
So, it makes sense that I (who have really good health insurance) was stunned to find out what anyone who does NOT have access to good insurance would have to face. IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCES THE MEDICATION. Possibly a medication that would save or extent their lives.
That explains then, the “confidence schemes” set up by people without scruples of any kind that claim to want to “help” others cheaply. Others like me, only with lesser (or even NO) insurance.
It explains the FEAR we have a claims of “amazing stuff” like an artificial pancreas, regrowing our own pancreas, diabetes-damaged cells being regenerated, I react like “I get suspicious that gobbledygook is being written to cover up a lack of facts with absurdly used terms substituted for straightforward language.” I am a suspicious kind of person when it comes to medicine: especially when young doctors – or physicians assistants (whose training, while different from mine in the INTENT, is no more than the education I got my Masters of Science in School Counseling for – both are Masters degrees. A PA cannot practice in the US WITHOUT a MD supervising them.
So, when something DOES come along that sounds FAKE, we shout FAKE and run the opposite direction.
While I am NOT a PA or an MD, I am a reasonably intelligent person who has a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and who reads constantly (journals, biology summary sites, science research, and am in contact with some of my former students who ARE researchers in medical biology or are doctors themselves) in my field as it has advanced since I graduated (when I took an Immunology class in 1977, the textbook had NO MENTION OF AIDS!))
I can only state to you that when I DO report on some new advancement, I’m not getting my information from whacky sites, but from SCIENCE sites. Check the links below each article. I always link to the source of my information.
So, while I am SKEPTICAL BY NATURE, I delight when I am convinced through data that something NEW is coming out to help us with Type 2 diabetes live longer and healthier lives.
EVIDENCE THAT PEOPLE AVOID RESEARCH THAT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. So, from my own blog:
Articles on CURES for Type 2 diabetes: 5
Number of hits: 166
NEARBY Articles NOT about CURES for Type 2 diabetes: 5
Number of hits: 314
The numbers speak for themselves -- maybe we're giving up HOPE because of the TRASH out there. But not ALL of it is trash.
And just like me, you have a healthy aversion to being conned.
But, maybe like me, I sometime wonder if the Medical Establishment IS conning me to sell Metformin; and in my case…well, it was one of the biggest shocks of my life.
My doctor suggested I start taking the solid form of Ozempic; it’s called Rybelsus. I talked about my adventures with it in this entry: Guy's Gotta Talk -- About DIABETES; breast cancer, Azheimer's: GUY’S GOTTA TALK ABOUT…TYPE 2 DIABETES #23: Ozempic, Rybelsus, and Me
So, he increased it a couple times, and at this last checkup, I A1c had dropped from 7.7 to 6.8!!! I was thrilled. He upped it one more time, I suppose thinking that “more is better”. I had the prescription for 14 mg (double my most recent prescription) of Rybelsus filled. I went to pick it up, and when the pharmacist tendered it, in addition to my cheaper meds, I had to pay over $535 for the new prescription! I about fainted!
I was even more stunned, when I read on the receipt that the RETAIL price for my three-month prescription of Rybelsus was… $3420.99! (I’d add about thirty exclamation points here, but I don’t feel like wasting perfectly good ranting space!
So, it makes sense that I (who have really good health insurance) was stunned to find out what anyone who does NOT have access to good insurance would have to face. IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCES THE MEDICATION. Possibly a medication that would save or extent their lives.
That explains then, the “confidence schemes” set up by people without scruples of any kind that claim to want to “help” others cheaply. Others like me, only with lesser (or even NO) insurance.
It explains the FEAR we have a claims of “amazing stuff” like an artificial pancreas, regrowing our own pancreas, diabetes-damaged cells being regenerated, I react like “I get suspicious that gobbledygook is being written to cover up a lack of facts with absurdly used terms substituted for straightforward language.” I am a suspicious kind of person when it comes to medicine: especially when young doctors – or physicians assistants (whose training, while different from mine in the INTENT, is no more than the education I got my Masters of Science in School Counseling for – both are Masters degrees. A PA cannot practice in the US WITHOUT a MD supervising them.
So, when something DOES come along that sounds FAKE, we shout FAKE and run the opposite direction.
While I am NOT a PA or an MD, I am a reasonably intelligent person who has a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and who reads constantly (journals, biology summary sites, science research, and am in contact with some of my former students who ARE researchers in medical biology or are doctors themselves) in my field as it has advanced since I graduated (when I took an Immunology class in 1977, the textbook had NO MENTION OF AIDS!))
I can only state to you that when I DO report on some new advancement, I’m not getting my information from whacky sites, but from SCIENCE sites. Check the links below each article. I always link to the source of my information.
So, while I am SKEPTICAL BY NATURE, I delight when I am convinced through data that something NEW is coming out to help us with Type 2 diabetes live longer and healthier lives.
EVIDENCE THAT PEOPLE AVOID RESEARCH THAT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. So, from my own blog:
Articles on CURES for Type 2 diabetes: 5
Number of hits: 166
NEARBY Articles NOT about CURES for Type 2 diabetes: 5
Number of hits: 314
The numbers speak for themselves -- maybe we're giving up HOPE because of the TRASH out there. But not ALL of it is trash.
THERE IS HOPE THAT THERE MIGHT BE A CURE FOR TYPE 2...
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