Pay attention to side effects, especially nausea, dehydration, and gallbladder symptoms, and report them to your prescriber early rather than waiting
Annual price revisions under Japans NHI pricing system, which apply discounts to drugs with high-volume generic competition, have compressed the commercial tails of Japanese branded drug revenues significantly
It's prescribed alongside changes to diet and activity, as part of a medically supervised plan not on its own, and not as a shortcut
What does success look like beyond weight
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 32(9):16401648 Zhang HQ et al (2009) Therapeutic effects of Clostridium butyricum on experimental colitis induced by oxazolone in rats
Most patients regain approximately two-thirds of lost weight within one year of stopping GLP-1 therapy, based on the STEP 4 trial withdrawal data