Unlike many Ozempic users in Saskatchewan, Chamundi Selvaraj in Saskatoon is taking the diabetes drug for its intended purpose: to regulate her blood sugar levels. She has been dealing with Type 2 diabetes for about a decade.
Chamundi Selvaraj takes a weekly dose of Ozempic because she's afraid of dying from diabetes-related kidney failure like her mother and four aunts, who all passed away in their 60s.First, she's using the drug for the reason it was initially designed: to improve her blood sugar levels.
According to the province, the other 60 per cent of the claims didn't meet the medical criteria of Type 2 diabetes or, in some cases, the patient might not have applied for coverage or may have been federally insured through First Nations and Inuit Health. CBC News spoke with several Ozempic users who do not have diabetes. Most did not want to speak publicly because of backlash over Ozempic supply shortages and stigma attached to using medication to treat obesity.
He argued it boils down to a kind of "bias" or "discrimination" between diseases, favouring diabetes over obesity, even though they're both recognized as chronic diseases.Hartley Macklin, who runs a Facebook support group for Ozempic users, uses Ozempic to stop himself from overeating. At his heaviest, the Winnipeg man was 300 pounds.
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