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Millions of patients rely on insulin. But with new drugs, some have been able to lower their doses or stop taking it altogether.<\/p>\n

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For over 20 years, Betsy Chadwell carried her insulin pens everywhere. Day in and day out, she carefully calibrated the doses needed to keep her Type 2 diabetes in check. \u201cEvery meal, and every morning and every night \u2014 it controls your life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In late 2021, she started on the diabetes drug Ozempic. Within months, she was able to stop taking the short-acting insulin she typically took before each meal altogether, and she has substantially reduced the dose of long-acting insulin she uses daily. Scaling back on insulin has given her a sense of freedom, she said. She still uses a continuous glucose monitor<\/a> to track her blood sugar, meticulously watching for slumps and spikes \u2014 but even as she took less insulin, she said, Ozempic has helped keep her glucose levels more under control.<\/p>\n

Millions of Americans rely on some form of insulin, a lifesaving drug that has long been a mainstay of diabetes treatment. But it can also be a burden to patients like Ms. Chadwell, who must juggle different formulations and doses, and often must have insulin on hand at all times. <\/p>\n

\u201cI really feel for those patients, because you can never stop having it in the back of your mind,\u201d said Dr. Scott Hagan, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington who studies obesity. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But in recent years, Ozempic and a similar drug, Mounjaro \u2014 both weekly shots that can lower blood sugar, in part by mimicking a hormone that stimulates insulin production \u2014 have offered patients an enticing new option to try managing their Type 2 diabetes without relying as heavily on insulin.<\/p>\n

And drugmakers are examining other ways these drugs might work alongside insulin: Novo Nordisk, the company that makes Ozempic, is studying a new drug called IcoSema, a weekly shot that combines insulin icodec (an ultra long-acting version of insulin) and semaglutide, the compound in Ozempic.<\/p>\n

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Millions of patients rely on insulin. But with new drugs, some have been able to lower their doses or stop taking it altogether.For over 20 years, Betsy Chadwell carried her insulin pens everywhere. Day in and day out, she carefully calibrated the doses needed to keep her Type 2 diabetes in check. \u201cEvery meal, and every morning and every night \u2014 it controls your life,\u201d she said.In late 2021, she started on the diabetes drug Ozempic. Within months, she was able to stop taking the short-acting insulin she typically took before each meal altogether, and she has substantially reduced the dose of long-acting insulin she uses daily. Scaling back on insulin has given her a sense of freedom, she said. She still uses a continuous glucose monitor to track her blood sugar, meticulously watching for slumps and spikes \u2014 but even as she took less insulin, she said, Ozempic has helped keep her glucose levels more under control.Millions of Americans rely on some form of insulin, a lifesaving drug that has long been a mainstay of diabetes treatment. But it can also be a burden to patients like Ms. Chadwell, who must juggle different formulations and doses, and often must have insulin on hand at all times. \u201cI really feel for those patients, because you can never stop having it in the back of your mind,\u201d said Dr. Scott Hagan, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington who studies obesity. But in recent years, Ozempic and a similar drug, Mounjaro \u2014 both weekly shots that can lower blood sugar, in part by mimicking a hormone that stimulates insulin production \u2014 have offered patients an enticing new option to try managing their Type 2 diabetes without relying as heavily on insulin.And drugmakers are examining other ways these drugs might work alongside insulin: Novo Nordisk, the company that makes Ozempic, is studying a new drug called IcoSema, a weekly shot that combines insulin icodec (an ultra long-acting version of insulin) and semaglutide, the compound in Ozempic.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":6057,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6055","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\/6055","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=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}