Whether the medication is covered depends on your specific plan, how the drug is prescribed, and whether you meet strict clinical requirements
Yet evidence also exists suggesting that the anorexic response to a GLP-1 analog, liraglutide, is in fact enhanced and lasts much longer in high-fat fed rats (Mul et al., Studies exploring the CNS effects of GLP-1 could also greatly benefit from a neuroanatomical dissection of the hindbrain GLP-1-producing neuronal population and its projection targets
The drug really took off in 1955 after US president Dwight Eisenhower was successfully treated with it following a heart attack
For example, you might: There are many resources available online, including drug interaction checkers that let you type in a drug name and search for interactions
Shauna Levy, a specialist in obesity medicine and the medical director of the Tulane Bariatric Center in New Orleans, told NBC News the drugs could cause gastroparesis, but the problem could also be caused by another undiagnosed illness or the patients diabetes, and then made worse by the medications
While these reactions are generally mild and self-limiting, they can cause discomfort and may deter some individuals from continuing with the treatment