Post #4041364
2026-07-23 16:56 UTC
@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online
I look at it the same way I look at treatment for major depression: the best outcomes are achieved with both therapy and antidepressants. It's the patient's choice whether they use one or both. Sure, doctors greatly prefer that people do both, but for a variety of reasons people often don't go to therapy. Doctors don't punish them by withholding medication.
Yes, lifestyle changes are important like therapy is. That can be complicated too. My neighbor knows how to exercise...
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-07-23 16:58
@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online ...and eat right, but as with you, joint pain from arthritis made weight loss hard. His doctor prescribed Wegovy so that he could have rapid weight loss to help with his joints. That and a knee replacement and he's back to hiking! On the side of medication shortages, it's a problem manufactured by Big Pharma. The solution is to make the government force Big Pharma to produce more, as with the Covid vaccines. They need to meet demand. And in the here and now my neighbor's A1c...