chest rockwell
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I've been reading through the site for roughly a month, picking up whatever I could. I feel like I'm ready enough now to start adding something to the forum.
Weight has been a fight for as long as I can remember, and last May I learned I was a type 2 diabetic. Insulin jabs came first, and my doctor was willing to add Ozempic — aimed at my insulin resistance rather than shedding pounds. Right after the diagnosis I was back at the Dr repeatedly while they tuned my insulin. Somewhere in there I realised the Dr was leaving me parked on the starting Ozempic dose instead of stepping it up on the usual schedule. No side effects whatsoever, and honestly I couldn't tell it was doing a thing. He wouldn't raise the dose and I didn't push back, figuring he just wanted to ease me in.
Then a few months on, my employer switched the insurance plan. All at once the Ozempic was refused. They wanted paperwork of every description proving why it was needed, etc etc ect. Their line was that nothing would be approved until I'd spent at least 6 months on the top metformin dose and my diabetic AC1 readings were still off. My doctor didn't appear willing to fight my corner, and bluntly told me the Ozempic wasn't really necessary because my sugars looked controlled on the insulin I was already taking. I asked him to go on writing the script anyway and said not to fret, I'd cover it myself. That went on for several months.
So I went hunting for another route, given that my doctor had no appetite for raising my doses or getting the insurer to say yes. That's when a Telehealth outfit came into the picture. I'd heard such companies turn you away once they know you're on insulin shots, so I kept that detail to myself. By then I'd made up my mind that tirzepatide suited me better than semaglutide. Looking back, that call was probably the smartest thing I'd done in years.
Jump to today: 85 lbs gone, and my daily insulin jab is weaned down to 15 units. The pre-meal injections are done with entirely. Where I began was 40 units each morning plus 15 units ahead of every meal.
A 6 month appointment with my Dr is on the horizon in July. With this much weight gone and the insulin cut back so far, it feels like there's no way around telling him what I've been up to. Honestly.... he might wash his hands of me as a patient, and by now I couldn't care less.
What pulled me to this site ..... the FDA restrictions and the big pharmacy chains making affordable GLP1s so hard to get leave me genuinely scared. It seems to get worse by the day. Given my diabetes and how my body works, I know this is something I'll likely need for the rest of my life. This place might be what lets me keep going down the road I'm on. Lose access to any GLP1s.... and all of it counts for nothing. The weight returns and so does every diabetic problem that rides along with it.
Happy to be part of this!
Weight has been a fight for as long as I can remember, and last May I learned I was a type 2 diabetic. Insulin jabs came first, and my doctor was willing to add Ozempic — aimed at my insulin resistance rather than shedding pounds. Right after the diagnosis I was back at the Dr repeatedly while they tuned my insulin. Somewhere in there I realised the Dr was leaving me parked on the starting Ozempic dose instead of stepping it up on the usual schedule. No side effects whatsoever, and honestly I couldn't tell it was doing a thing. He wouldn't raise the dose and I didn't push back, figuring he just wanted to ease me in.
Then a few months on, my employer switched the insurance plan. All at once the Ozempic was refused. They wanted paperwork of every description proving why it was needed, etc etc ect. Their line was that nothing would be approved until I'd spent at least 6 months on the top metformin dose and my diabetic AC1 readings were still off. My doctor didn't appear willing to fight my corner, and bluntly told me the Ozempic wasn't really necessary because my sugars looked controlled on the insulin I was already taking. I asked him to go on writing the script anyway and said not to fret, I'd cover it myself. That went on for several months.
So I went hunting for another route, given that my doctor had no appetite for raising my doses or getting the insurer to say yes. That's when a Telehealth outfit came into the picture. I'd heard such companies turn you away once they know you're on insulin shots, so I kept that detail to myself. By then I'd made up my mind that tirzepatide suited me better than semaglutide. Looking back, that call was probably the smartest thing I'd done in years.
Jump to today: 85 lbs gone, and my daily insulin jab is weaned down to 15 units. The pre-meal injections are done with entirely. Where I began was 40 units each morning plus 15 units ahead of every meal.
A 6 month appointment with my Dr is on the horizon in July. With this much weight gone and the insulin cut back so far, it feels like there's no way around telling him what I've been up to. Honestly.... he might wash his hands of me as a patient, and by now I couldn't care less.
What pulled me to this site ..... the FDA restrictions and the big pharmacy chains making affordable GLP1s so hard to get leave me genuinely scared. It seems to get worse by the day. Given my diabetes and how my body works, I know this is something I'll likely need for the rest of my life. This place might be what lets me keep going down the road I'm on. Lose access to any GLP1s.... and all of it counts for nothing. The weight returns and so does every diabetic problem that rides along with it.
Happy to be part of this!