When we met him at his home in Covington, he was dealing with yet another message from yet another pharmacy telling him they did not have his type two diabetes drug in stock.
February 15, 2024 at 5:50 pm PSTCOVINGTON, Wash. — Bill Burkard is so mad he says he wants to choke someone. He’s kidding. A little.
Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic was approved for diabetes treatment seven years ago, but the shortage crisis really began last year and has ramped up ever since. It has semaglutide and is in a class of medications known as GLP-1. Semaglutide is also proven to help with weight loss, and Novo Nordisk makes a weight loss version called Wegovy. And therein lies the problem.
Washington Poison Control has also seen a sharp increase in the number of calls they’ve received about people having adverse reactions to GLP-1 drugs. Executive Director Dr. Scott Phillips says the problems tend to be minor, including nausea, pain in the belly, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation. “It’s jumped from a few cases a year to dozens and dozens of cases a year,” he says, “So, it’s definitely picking up, and we’re having at least one in a week or more.
When KIRO 7 asked Novo Nordisk about the shortage and the problems diabetics face getting semaglutide medication, they responded, “In the U.S., we cannot control which specific pharmacies or patients receive Ozempic® as we distribute our products to wholesalers who in turn supply retail pharmacies nationwide.
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