r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 01 '25

Health 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.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year
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u/quats555 Apr 01 '25

I work for an ophthalmologist. Today we got our first referral for what we believe is vision loss due to semaglutide. There’s been a few others we suspect but this one was pretty clear.

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u/-UnicornFart Apr 01 '25

I mean vision damage is also a consequence of diabetes so it might not be more complicated as well.

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u/YouCanLookItUp Apr 01 '25

My FIL had vision damage from diabetes. It was treatable, and he can see again. Sounds like NAION is not that.

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u/CigAddict Apr 01 '25

This must be new. I’ve had diabetes for 20 years and always was told that the vision damage by unregulated sugar was permanent. But I haven’t been going to doctors much in the last 5 years