{"id":2884,"date":"2024-03-24T05:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T06:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2024-03-24T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T07:27:20","slug":"patients-hate-forever-drugs-are-ozempic-and-wegovy-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"Patients Hate \u2018Forever\u2019 Drugs. Are Ozempic and Wegovy Different?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most people, study after study shows, don\u2019t take the medicines prescribed for them. It doesn\u2019t matter what they are \u2014 statins<\/a>, high blood pressure drugs<\/a>, drugs to lower blood sugar<\/a>, asthma drugs<\/a>. Either patients never start taking them, or they stop.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a problem that doctors call nonadherence \u2014 the common human tendency to resist medical treatment \u2014 and it leads to countless deaths and billions of dollars of preventable medical costs each year.<\/p>\n

But that resistance may be overcome by the blockbuster obesity drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, which have astounded the world with the way they help people lose weight and keep it off. Though it\u2019s still early days, and there is a paucity of data on compliance with the new drugs, <\/strong>doctors say they are noticing another astounding effect: Patients seem to take them faithfully, week in and week out.<\/p>\n

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Some patients may have to get over an initial reluctance to start. A national survey<\/a> showed that when people were told they would gain weight back if they stopped taking the drugs, most lost interest in starting them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In one small study, patients stopped refilling prescriptions for months at a time, perhaps because of side effects, lack of availability, or insurance and cost issues.<\/p>\n

But anecdotally, doctors and patients say, those who begin taking the drugs are continuing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t intend to ever stop taking this medicine,\u201d said Kimberly DelRosso of Pembroke, Mass., who takes Wegovy.<\/p>\n

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Most people, study after study shows, don\u2019t take the medicines prescribed for them. It doesn\u2019t matter what they are \u2014 statins, high blood pressure drugs, drugs to lower blood sugar, asthma drugs. Either patients never start taking them, or they stop.It\u2019s a problem that doctors call nonadherence \u2014 the common human tendency to resist medical treatment \u2014 and it leads to countless deaths and billions of dollars of preventable medical costs each year.But that resistance may be overcome by the blockbuster obesity drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, which have astounded the world with the way they help people lose weight and keep it off. Though it\u2019s still early days, and there is a paucity of data on compliance with the new drugs, doctors say they are noticing another astounding effect: Patients seem to take them faithfully, week in and week out.Some patients may have to get over an initial reluctance to start. A national survey showed that when people were told they would gain weight back if they stopped taking the drugs, most lost interest in starting them.In one small study, patients stopped refilling prescriptions for months at a time, perhaps because of side effects, lack of availability, or insurance and cost issues.But anecdotally, doctors and patients say, those who begin taking the drugs are continuing.\u201cI don\u2019t intend to ever stop taking this medicine,\u201d said Kimberly DelRosso of Pembroke, Mass., who takes Wegovy.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2886,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}