For patients exploring GLP-1 therapy for fibromyalgia, compounded semaglutide eliminates financial barriers that often prevent trial of promising treatments
But anti-obesity medications, or even bariatric surgery, are viewed as the easy way out. Hopefully, greater awareness of obesity as a disease will help curb this misinformation
But these data gaps further underscore the need to study this population, as currently, there is "limited or no clinical guidance" on the use of GLP-1s prior to conception, the commentary authors wrote
During the Biden administration, Congress enacted the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which authorized the federal government to negotiate lower drug prices with manufacturers for some drugs covered by Medicare, among other provisions, resulting in an estimated reduction in the federal deficit of $237 billion over 10 years for the drug pricing provisions alone