How can we run a long study for weight loss, and then not give patients a transitional dose at the end of the study?? We are going to have patients successfully lose a lot of weight, and then just make them go cold turnkey with no lower dose of therapy for a while? Shame shame.
most patients would jump at the chance to be a part of a long-term weight loss trial and get FREE medication for years ( in many cases), and they are fully informed of the duration. There are other options that can be RX'd by their Dr. post-trial. Were you a patient in the trial?
Although what you say makes sense...I have a feeling that most patients want even more for free, like the OP is crying about. They somehow ignore what they get and instead focus on not getting even more. People are stupid.
That’s our society. They get stuff for free, complain, then sue when they eat too much and gain the weight back and complain they are victims.
How can you do that? It’s really easy - at the end of the trial, you just quit giving them medicine. It happens at the end of every clinical trial ever conducted that was intended to gain approval for a product. It’s actually illegal to distribute non-approved medication to patients not enrolled in a clinical trial. Shame shame on you for expecting Novo Nordisk to break the law. You should have more integrity.
If any study patients actually “lose a lot of weight” then it is because they got off their butts and started exercising and stopped eating crap, so those patients will be just fine. No one is gong to lose a ton of weight just by using semaglutide. Patients need to stop being lazy and looking for a quick fix and put in the work and change their lifestyle.
Although loving a healthy lifestyle in important, there are plenty of people who lose a lot of weight by simply taking a GLP1. You’re not hungry and you’re full. All the time. Not eating makes people lose weight.
