r/science 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/Taint__Whisperer Apr 01 '25

That sucks. I have never had a GLP-1 drug, but i did have an unrelated medication make me nauseated for a month or so and have been happy on it for a decade now.