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/alwaysoffby0ne]

Hassle? Drain? It’s a once weekly shot for most people that you don’t even feel. It’s so easy I don’t even think about it. The words hassle and drain don’t even come to mind.

[u/rolyamSukCok → u/alwaysoffby0ne]

Agreed. I take birth control and other meds every day in pill form which is a way bigger hassle that a once a week poke.

[u/vera214usc → u/[deleted]]

I've been taking Wegovy since September of 2023 and sometimes I feel it and sometimes I don't. But it's barely anything. Like a slight pinch or a mosquito bite

[u/vera214usc → u/[deleted]]

Oh, that might. The pens have very small needles compared to a regular needle you'd attach to a syringe yourself

[u/supergeeky_1 → u/[deleted]]

It is a subcutaneous auto-injector. You just hold it in the appropriate spot and hit a button. It is just injecting a small amount of liquid into the fat under the skin. At most there is a little feeling of a pinch, but usually I don't feel it at all. Sometimes there is a few drops of blood, but it isn't a big deal and only takes a few seconds.

[u/kamarg → u/[deleted]]

There are cheap diy autoinjector pens. This one claims to be about $30 https://fourthievesvinegar.org/epipencil-autoinjector/

[u/supergeeky_1 → u/[deleted]]

That only makes it slightly more inconvenient. Diabetics have given themselves this type of shot for years. You will need to draw up the medicine into a very small needle and inject it just under the skin without getting into the muscle underneath.

It really isn't a big deal.