@earther Interesting that your cardiologist won't prescribe Jardiance for the reasons you gave. From what I've seen the ads for this and other similar drugs are pushing its use in heart failure, along with the weight loss and any number of providers are prescribing it. It's good to hear from the folks who have taken these drugs and find their conditions being improved significantly, and more power to them I say. But I'm still leery of the side effects, especially considering what happened to my brother who was taking an SGLT-2 drug.

I saw my own cardiologist a couple weeks ago, and while I agreed with him that losing weight would go a long way in improving my comorbidities ( including pulmonary hypertension, though without symptoms, at this point) and I'm working on it, I told him I would NOT consider taking any of those drugs because I was leery about 1) the need to take the drugs forever for continued weight maintenance, and 2) short term side effects and 3) the long term side effects we don't know about yet. He agreed with me, nodded when I mentioned the side effects and said, "well, I won't prescribe them then". Fortunately, this guy listens to me, so many docs don't.