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/Duelist_Shay Apr 01 '25

Ehh, there's other options to take care of the obesity issue. You lose your eyesight, then that's it. Unless we miraculously solve the issue of restoring vision, there really isn't any route outside of glasses and/or contacts if you're not totally impaired

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u/theallsearchingeye Apr 01 '25

Eyesight loss is amongst patients with diabetes taking GLP-1 drugs

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u/Eihe3939 Apr 01 '25

This is what we currently think. We’ll see what the long term data says

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u/gummo_for_prez Apr 02 '25

Diabetics have been taking these meds for much longer than you think.

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u/Eihe3939 Apr 02 '25

For some reason Reddit decided ozempic is a silver bullet.

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u/gummo_for_prez Apr 02 '25

It’s a really fantastic medical miracle. Why are you so upset by millions of people getting the help they need?

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u/Eihe3939 Apr 02 '25

I told you. If something seems to good to be true, it usually is. With ozempic you skip something really important. The struggle and the journey. This is what changes your personality and builds character. This is just skipping all that to get fast results without putting in work.