I keep seeing the news items on the FDA today, working on obesity, and I keep wondering how much energy is being taken away from approving new products.
Hopefully they are completely different departments and issues, but I can’t help but wonder, if it pushing back the approval of the continue glucose monitor.
We need this now. It’s the next step to a closed loop system, but darn it, maybe it would have solved last week. Don’t worry, I’ll do a seperate post.
Yep, got here today, and just think I get to do this all over again NEXT year.
Rimonabant Helps for Smoking Cessation, Weight Loss
Interesting — you may need to register to read this. Wonder what hideous side effect it will have.
Next week I see the sleep specialist, do a stress test and see a cardiologist and see an endo for the first time.
My biggest, overriding question, is this:
If you had the medical history I had, is there anything else you would be doing that I am not.
I’m wondering if we need to increase the Zocor, right now.
I’ve lost weight with just about everything you’ve heard of.
I’ve lost weight with Weight Watchers, I’ve lost weight with Jenny Craig, I’ve lost weight with hypnosis.
What I have been unable to do, is keep the weight off. The minute something takes my attention off of losing weight, or keeping the weight off, I gain it all back.
I even lost 100 pounds once. That was with hypnosis, and it was easy. But then a life event came around (okay, a couple), took my focus off of losing weight, back it was on.
Even this year, I’ve managed to lose some weight — then my husband broke his hip, and back the weight came.
The sad part, is that I usually get MORE weight, not just what I lost.
It also gets harder to lose the weight each time.
And that is why I think it is a disease. I don’t think other people have to think about losing weight all day, every day — or keeping weight off, all day every day.
But then maybe they do.
FYI: Zyrtec is the only drug I’ve had to deal with when it comes to managed care.
All the other scripts — insulin, Zocor, Altace, test strips etc. have not been a problem. They haven’t even bulked on the insulin even though they have a cheaper one in their formulary. But I do have a documented allergy to the formulary insulin.
Anyway, they shipped on Friday, after predicting a ship date of Monday. So it is on its way.
Good news!
Medco received my script. They are processing it.
I was worried because the post office box was absolutely stuffed and I wasn’t sure it was going to get picked up. I kept thinking I should have taken it inside.
And since I mailed it yesterday at 5:00, this isn’t bad.
They claim they will ship on the 10th.
I am liking iShape more and more each day. Though I think it might make be obsess over food more than I would like.
Their food database is fantastic. They had Tagalong Girl Scout cookies in it. And of course, my EzManager doesn’t.
Having a good wide database makes life much easier.
iShape is working out well. I signed up yesterday and it became live today. Entering my Diet Gourmet food was very easy. I like the way it tracks everything.
No person is intimately involved in your workouts — but then I haven’t had that at all since I started working with the local online personal trainer. A few nags about a food diary that does not work, and that’s about it.
Okay, he did tell me what weights to buy.
But the workouts aren’t flexible at all. iShapes are. You can move the iShape workout to a different day, you can change to a different exercise, etc.
Live and learn!
If you are interested in iShape, they do have a referral program. Please email me at kathleen_w-weblog8301 at mailblocks.com and I will “set you up”. That will give me a free month.
Apparently the paperwork was in processing, as the computer system now says my Zyrtec was approved.
The online system still says the prescription was cancelled, but since we’re talking about a matter of hours.
I do like that we can harrass computers these days rather than having to deal with people.