Dr. Abud Bakri
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I'm eating so much.
I'm like, okay, whatever.
You got bunk pen from overseas.
I go to do a shift.
I was on a night shift that day.
And I've never had Charizard-like projectile vomiting.
Oof.
And low blood sugar, presumably.
The blood sugar effects for non-diabetics don't get that low, but it was just miserable.
Like I would go admit a patient, go upstairs, vomit in the call room.
You just gave a really good reason why people shouldn't just do what you just described.
No, they shouldn't do that.
And then go back to the ER, admit a patient.
And it was the most miserable night of my life.
So you have to be very careful how you use these drugs.
That's why I titrate very slowly.
Luckily, with the newer ones, the effects are much less.
Like people who report triseptide and redditrutide even have less of these gastrointestinal effects.
But that's a peptide gone wrong story.
And the big thing they're trying to do now is classify it as a biologic.