Patients who have established consistent exercise routines, healthy eating patterns, adequate sleep habits, and effective stress management strategies during their time on medication are better positioned to maintain their weight loss after stopping
In an 899-page budget bill approved the final day of the spring legislative session last May, a four-sentence provision codified for the first time that carriers in the state program shall provide coverage for all types of injectable medicines prescribed on-label or off-label to improve glucose or weight loss for use by adults diagnosed or previously diagnosed with prediabetes, gestational diabetes, or obesity. But who gave the go-ahead to include those four sentences in the bill, adding what could be hundreds of millions of dollars of coverage costs, is difficult to say
If weight regain occurs despite ongoing therapy, your provider may adjust your dose or consider combination therapy with another GLP-1 agent
The following sections describe what to anticipate and ways to handle it
Table 5 Outcome assessment and conclusions
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