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If significant weight loss is not achieved after 16 weeks, your Centra Internal Medicine provider will reassess your treatment plan and discuss next steps with you

These drugs also have low uptake (less than 2% in the USA) due to several factors, including patients reluctance to seek treatment, lack of addiction training among healthcare providers and considerable stigma surrounding AUD and addiction. - Lorenzo Leggio, et al, Nature Medicine, December 2023 Based on the percentage of people in the United States with alcohol use disorder (11% or ~29.5 million) and the number of people who have received medication for alcohol use disorder in the past year (624,000) and the number of people taking GLP-1 drugs (7 percent of American adults or 18 million), we roughly estimate that more than 3 times as many people with AUD have been incidentally prescribed a GLP-1 in the past year than have been prescribed a medication that is FDA indicated for alcohol use disorder (~2 million vs 624,000, and these groups may overlap)

In doing so, they help delay gastric emptying, which helps you feel full, and increase insulin secretion, which keeps blood sugar stable

Microdosing tirzepatide appears frequently in online cutting cycles but it has little evidence to support it

Some can cause lymphedema (swelling)