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Is anyone else talking Wegovy for heat disease?
The FDA recently approved Wegovy for heart disease. My medicare Advance Plan now covers it at $99 a month so I started on it this week. I cannot take any statins, I couldn’t even take red yeast rice. I was on Repatha which brought my numbers down, but it has the nasty side effect of maybe making you diabetic which worried me greatly. Repatha brought my numbers down so now that i have switched to Wegovy I’m wondering if Wegovy will maintain those lower numbers for me. I do like the Wegovy side effect of weight loss. I LOVE how my brain is thinking about food now.
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What is the source for your comment that Repatha maybe “making you diabetic “?
Hope Wegovy helps.
Many sites report this. This is from the Repatha site.
The most common side effects of Repatha® include: runny nose, sore throat, symptoms of the common cold, flu or flu-like symptoms, back pain, high blood sugar levels (diabetes) and redness, pain, or bruising at the injection site.
Thank you for sharing. I can't seem to get my Medicare Plan (Humana) to cover it at all.
Try again. They are required to cover it once it is approved by the FDA for heart disease, which it has been. You also have to have a BMI of 26, I think. 26 is just very slightly overweight on the scale. Not much. I also have Humana and they very recently started covering it. Two weeks ago they didn't cover it. Keep checking with them.
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