Know Diabetes Status Before Starting GLP 1s

The reason they label them differently is because of insurance reimbursement and FDA approvals. So the FDA approval approves a drug for one thing. When they approve it for something else, they generally would call it something else if it's not going to be covering the same disease even though the drugs are identical. So the question you had was, should you know if you have diabetes? You know, absolutely. If you're a diabetic, that needs to be managed anyways, you still might be using the same exact drug. The end is not just weight loss, it's also management of blood sugar. In our practice, we're not treating diabetes. That's not our sweet spot. We treat more obesity or overweight f patient want to lose weight. But if you're a diabetic, your family doctor is really comfortable with prescribing these medications. And interestingly, it's way more likely to be covered by insurance if you're a diabetic than non diabetic. So that might be another reason that you talk to your family doctors or working with potentially other diabetes medications.