For the first time since I started this blog eleven years ago, it’s going to be about me. I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes two weeks ago. While people are happy to talk about their experiences with diabetes, I WASN’T comfortable with talking about diabetes. My wife is Type 2, as are several friends of ours. The “other Type” of diabetes was what caused the death of my Best Man a year after my wife and I got married. He was diagnosed with diabetes when he was a kid. It was called Juvenile Diabetes then. Today it’s Type 1. Since then, I haven’t WANTED to talk about diabetes at all. But…for my own education and maybe helping someone else, and not one to shut up for any known reason, I’m reopening my blog rather than starting a new one. I MAY take a pause and write about Breast Cancer or Alzheimer’s as medical headlines dictate; but this time I’m going to drag anyone along who wants to join my HIGHLY RELUCTANT journey toward better understanding of my life with Type 2 Diabetes. You’re Welcome to join me!Ozempic is killing us.
Not the drug, but the ABSURD PRICE THE DRUG COMPANY IS CHARGING US:
We will have to pay this same price again once I run out of this set of injections and my Medicare co-pay kicks in.
So, I’ve decided to fight back: “GUY’S GOTTA TALK ABOUT…TYPE 2 DIABETES #39B: A MONTH After Switching To Ozempic Every OTHER Week” The science ALSO supports this move, at least for me. https://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2026/03/guys-gotta-talk-abouttype-2-diabetes.html
HOWEVER...
The BIGGEST problem is that the drug company that makes Ozempic found out that people who are NOT diabetic want to use it to lose weight: “Data analyzed by Trillian Health, and reported by CNN, shows that a third of patients on Ozempic have no history of diabetes. This means that doctors are prescribing the drug “off-label,” presumably for another condition, such as weight loss. The off-label prescription of Ozempic is up to a third, or 33%, from 16% in 2021. Many doctors may feel as though they have no choice but to prescribe Ozempic to their patients who are clamoring for semaglutide to help in their weight loss. Even if doctors wanted to write a prescription for Wegovy, they may not have been able to.” https://medicine.iu.edu/blogs/bioethics/on-the-increase-in-use-of-glp-1s#:~:text=Data%20analyzed%20by%20Trillian%20Health,not%20have%20been%20able%20to.
However, THE most alarming thing strikes through to the heart of the career I had for 41 years?
“…a national study from Michigan Medicine shows that the use of these weight loss drugs is increasing rapidly in adolescents and young adults 12-25 years, especially females.” https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/young-people-are-increasingly-using-wegovy-and-ozempic
WHAT KIND OF MESSAGES ARE US ADULTS SENDING TO OUR (The collective SOCIETAL “our”) CHILDREN?
However, THE most alarming thing strikes through to the heart of the career I had for 41 years?
“…a national study from Michigan Medicine shows that the use of these weight loss drugs is increasing rapidly in adolescents and young adults 12-25 years, especially females.” https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/young-people-are-increasingly-using-wegovy-and-ozempic
WHAT KIND OF MESSAGES ARE US ADULTS SENDING TO OUR (The collective SOCIETAL “our”) CHILDREN?
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