• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    That’s always a bad idea. That’s part of your medical records, and could influence future options when your health changes. Say you’re I’m hospital for something pancreas related, and they need to use something to manage your blood sugar long enough to get your body working right again. If you say that you’ve poorly tolerated a drug, they’ll deprioritze not only that drug, but ones similar to it, in favor of ones that you’ve tolerated or haven’t had at all, whether or not the original drug is a better choice.

    I’m all for navigating a complex system with created data when it’s necessary, but you really, really only want to do it when there aren’t other options. And, as much as it sucks, the drug they’re on is often better for the reason they’re on it instead of others. Lying to switch back would be detrimental to their overall health

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        No, would be. I chose the word for a reason. That reason being that the drugs in question and the reasons they’re prescribed would absolutely, 100% lead to issues if changed by deceit.

        You don’t fuck with shit that moderates your blood sugar without careful consideration, and they titration on/off.

        Those issues may or may not be major, but even minor changes to blood sugar and a1c away from targets cause accumulated problems. This isn’t hypothetical. Treatment of “borderline” diabetes in specific (as well as full diabetes, obviously) is a fairly careful balance. Just switching between something like metformin and ones of the injectables is a step to be taken with careful consideration.

        There are hypothetical situations in which lying to your doctor to manipulate which drugs you get becomes a possible health risk rather than a certain one, but it’s still fucking stupid, and it’s stupid to recommend anyone do so. Diabetes ain’t one of them.

        With ozempic vs mounjaro, the less selective (or more general, if you prefer) action of mounjaro has concrete benefits to a1c control, and if your doctor is switching you, there’s a reason. Lying interferes with best practices, period; lying about something that’s as fiddly and risky as diabetes, well, it’s like wu-tang.

        Just so you know, if you’re going to *fix shit, you might want to know what the fuck you’re talking about. That goes double when the person you think you’re correcting has a background in medicine. Don’t be a douche, in other words.

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          1 day ago

          Don’t be a douche, in other words.

          Don’t be a douche with insults.

          OP was using ozempic before without problems, that’s why I proposed that.

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              22 hours ago

              You are implying that you know about medication a lot.
              What are the particular bad consequences of using ozempic vs mounjaro?

              Answer to that question would make your point clearer.

              P.S. Medical professionals, unfortunately, are not infallible nor are they always professional or acting in patient best interests.
              My doctor prescribed me umifenovir for example.

              Generally, though, I would rely on their opinion, with double checking via other specialists , if possible.