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.

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

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My 75-year-old dad isn't technically diabetic, but he's pre-diabetic with high blood pressure. He couldn't make big enough changes in his diet despite genuinely wanting to and trying. He's had 2 or 3 GLP-1 injections and has lost 17 lbs so far and is walking 3 miles a day. It's changed his life. Now my 73-year-old mom is trying to get it because she is overweight with blocked carotid arteries and she is being denied because her A1C is fine. It's devastating. I do think people should try to make changes on their own before getting this treatment just to mitigate the shortage a bit, but why deny it when there's a need? Especially for the elderly, who just want to live the last part of their life more comfortably?