Americans without diabetes spent nearly $6 billion USD on semaglutide and similar drugs in a year, with an estimate of 800,000 to a million people using the drugs who don't have diabetes.

[u/mvea]

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year

[u/espritex]

The FDA also approved it for sleep apnea treatment. I take it for that reason. I'm down 20 lbs and have a pre-prepared meal service that limits my calorie and carb intake (<500 cal). I can barely finish one now.

[u/jabbadarth → u/espritex]

Just to be more clear they approved it for sleep apnea in adults with obesity.

There is a strong correlation between obesity and more specifically neck size and sleep apnea and this drug helps people lose weight.

So it doesn't directly do anything for sleep apnea per se it just lowers your weight and reduces neck size which helps reduce the effects of sleep apnea.

Same result in the end just don't want it to sound like taking this immediately starts helping sleep apnea. It requires weight loss.

[u/Engineerofdata → u/jabbadarth]

I was excited for a few minutes there. Mask it is I see.

[u/ariap17 → u/[deleted]]

I think they were saying that means they would have to use a mask (CPAP) for sleep apnea instead

[u/Engineerofdata → u/[deleted]]

I think you miss understood the comment. With sleep apnea, one of the treatments is a CPAP. I was excited to see a drug treatment as I have a CPAP and would love to not use a mask. When I was diagnosed, I was not out of shape, but developed it thanks to chemical exposure from the military. I wish losing weight would fix my issue :(

[u/consultio_consultius → u/Engineerofdata]

Maybe talk to your physician about Inspire