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While these medications can be highly effective, insurance coverage often requires prior authorization, insurance verification, and supporting medical documentation

Ive observed that there are 5 obstacles patients experience with these medications as treatments for obesity and diabetes: Cost of the meds Side effects and tolerability Fear of needles Concerns about safety The moral failing of needing a medication Oral GLP1 drugs like orforglipron (Foundayo) and Wegovy work almost as well as the injectable version of these drugs The FDA just approved oral Foundayo for the treatment of obesity based on the results of the ATTAIN-1 trial, recently published in NEJM

Long-Term Success Maintaining weight loss long term often requires more than just GLP-1s