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Sara

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

And so I called a couple of them and then I made an appointment with one of them.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

I went and I met, went to their office.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

I met this very nice nurse.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

We talked all about my, you know, medical history and what my goals were.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

And, and then, and she explained, you know, like what the options were.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

Cause it was like, you know, you could take semaglutide, you could take trisepatide.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

Uh, I can try.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

So, uh, so semaglutide, uh, you know, was the sort of the first drug out and then they developed this terzepatide and the difference is I don't, I actually don't really know what the difference is.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

I do know that they have slightly different side effects.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

I know that the terzepatide is, is I think is that bound is the brand name.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

They, uh,

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

I think that it can, you need a little bit less of it.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

And, you know, she, and also my doctor, doctor who I have had like check-ins with, like, you know, if the semaglute kind of stops working well, you can always like switch to this, but I've never needed to do that.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

So yes, then this very nice nurse, she wrote me a prescription and, you know, you started on a very low dose and, you know, she and I had routine check-ins, typically a phone check-in where it's like every, at the beginning, it's like every week or every couple of weeks, like, how are you feeling?

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

Do you, have you had any weight loss?

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

Like what's,

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

How's your cravings?

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

Do you have any side effects?

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

I think the common side effects oftentimes are nausea.

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1431 - Sara Went on a GLP1 & Lost Weight and Lowered her Cholesterol & A1C

You could have some vomiting.