Did you have any side effects with it would you recommend it? 🥰
@A DiabetesTeam Member there is at least 2 or 3 other members that I know are taking it. Since it was just approved earlier this year it may take a while for it to come into wide use.
It is simply a "supercharged" version of the super popular Ozempic - containing the same (active drug) with a secondary add on that is intended to start the release of insulin (your own) sooner in the digestive process and then keep it working longer.
The "earlier release" is the "improvement" that this drug claims to do. So in theory it should be a little better than Ozempic and the other drugs in that class (which include Rybelsus and Trulicity as well), but until it's in wide use and they get a couple of years of real life results, it's still a mostly "looks better on paper" at the moment.
Otherwise the benefits, side effects, pros/cons "should be" identical to the other drugs in the class (called GLP-1 Agonists - so named for the "insulin turning on hormone, GLP-1" that they are (messing with))
@A DiabetesTeam Member diabetes should not affect your breathing as a normal/typical (side effect).
However, if you develop cardiovascular disease as a later stage complication, which usually manifests as congestive heart failure, then yes, breathing would be affected.
But rather than a "diabetes caused this" it would be instead diabetes caused a complication that then caused that complication - so "slightly removed" from drawing a direct line from one to the other.
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Helps me keep my numbers steady