re: Semaglutide injections

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You refuse to even acknowledge the nearly overwhelming health benefits from taking the drug & only focus on a few negatives.

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What health benefits does it offer that a general healthy lifestyle do not?

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What health benefits does it offer that a general healthy lifestyle do not?

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The cognitive dissonance on this board is astounding.

If these injections were ONLY available to those 350+ and anyone 275 or below wasn't eligible, they would be shouting about taking the easy way out.

But because the easy way is available to them it's A-okay.

And for the record, I'm not against these medications if you can take them forever. Kathy Bates looks fantastic. She is healthier. She will stay that way because she has the means to do so.

Most on this board do not have the means to do so for their remaining years. I've already seen it happen in real life with people I know. They get on the shots, they lose weight, something happens where they can't do the shots, they balloon back up. This is not a strawman. It is anecdotal, but I have already seen it happen to nearly every person who has taken these shots.

Just figure out why you're so fat and then attack that part. It's much healthier and much more sustaining than taking shots the rest of your life.

I'd love for this country to collectively drop 50 pounds per overweight person. It'd make going out and about a lot nicer. People would be be more friendly, more patient, less impulsive. But this is not sustaining.

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Or that I’ve helped out a couple from the board?

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That you're bypassing ethical standards by telling people on this board, people with whom you have no history, that you can help them out point blank. How would you even know without doing a medical workup?

It's, and I can't stress this enough, incredibly uncomfortable to watch.

Yes, sure. But there is a gray line you’re skirting where you’re basically telling people that you can get them injections before even speaking with them.

I have no doubt that you’re not doing anything illegal. I’m sure you cross your Ts and dot your Is. I’m just telling you from an outside perspective, it reeks of sketch and implies an untoward respect of ethics

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I get new patients all the time in clinic that I’ve never met before either. But I talk with them and get a history and then ask if they have any history of pancreatitis or multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. We talk about all the possible GI side effects and then I prescribe it, it’s sent to their door, and then they take the medicine.

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You do a 15 minute telemedicine call and then put them on hormone therapy

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it reeks of sketch and implies an untoward respect of ethics

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I do understand that.

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And you just don’t care. Which is probably worse

And your rationale is “well, I’m less sketchy than some gray market website”

As someone who’s beholden to ethical standards as well, it’s truly a disgrace

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But yall are all fatasses who take them so you get emotional as frick when those concerns are voiced

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I lost 42 pounds the old fashioned way then have built 15 pounds of muscle. 24 BMI and 14% BF… but keep judging from your pedestal little buddy

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You do a 15 minute telemedicine call and then put them on hormone therapy

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So do the dozens of TRT clinics… what’s your point? Providers also order abx, steroids, cough suppressants, etc through 15 min telemedicine. You’re just upset he’s doing it for weight loss.

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The failure of people that can't manage those small "barriers" to their health will still find a way to end up with a bunch of health conditions, regardless of GLP use. Yes, they'll be less fat, which is better. But you have to be fricking weak as shite not to even do what 70 year old women do in any mall that is still open.

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So in other words, you are either ignorant of the enormous health benefits, or more likely, you too are knowingly omitting any mention of them; because they don't fit y'alls B.S. narrative.