Sweet and Sour

 Sweet and Sour

Who would have guessed that I would become a professional lab rat? I am being evaluated for another experimental drug for a “heart study.” My first part of the evaluation is over: blood work drawn, update of medical history (I was in a previous diabetic medication study), and signing of forms.
There are so many rabbit trails I want to address, but I will try to do justice to them all. With the diabetic study from 2024, I found out that I had indeed been on the experimental drug, Orforgliphon 3 milligrams. It worked really well for me, unlike the medication Ozempic that an endocrinologist tried to put me on. I couldn’t tolerate it when I had symptoms 24/7 of extreme nausea or heartburn. When I was told that he wanted me to continue with Ozempic, I stopped taking it and stopped seeing him.
When the medication Orforgliphon worked so much better without the unwanted side effects and taking it worked so well, I wanted to cry when the testing period was over and I could no longer was able to have access to the medication. I found out later that Eli Lilly was trying to get approval for it as a viable weight reduction medication and not for controlling diabetic’s blood sugar. I even volunteered to be a long term study participant for the effectiveness and over-all effects of taking the medication, but Eli Lilly never responded. (P.S. I called Eli Lilly to express my feelings. I was put on Mounjaro, also an Eli Lilly injectable medication for diabetes. I shared with Lilly that it didn’t work nearly as well as the oral medication Orforgliphon. I was able to talk with someone in their testing lab, but my call did little to gain traction for me to continue taking it.)
I just Googled Orforgliphon for updates and Eli Lilly is offering it for private sale as a weight reduction medication for $149.00, but it still doesn’t address the diabetic patient. It saddens me when a pharmaceutical company takes precedence for those who can pay and are overweight yet not those suffering from the disease diabetes. Today, medicine seems to follow the money, unlike many earlier physicians and scientists who found cures for diseases then at little or no cost shared their discoveries unlike today where it is to feed the continual cash-cow customer.