Both self-injected medications are listed as “currently in shortage” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and both are expensive if not covered by insurance.
Why are patients turning to compounding pharmacies?Semaglutide is a synthetic version of a hormone known as GLP-1, which the body releases into the intestine when people eat food. That leads to reduced appetite and slows down stomach emptying, which may contribute to feeling full sooner,Compounding pharmacies claim to basically make that synthetic hormone, and then send the patient the raw materials, along with something to mix them with and a syringe, said NBC’s senior medical correspondent Dr.
But patients won’t get the injector pen that comes with Ozempic or Wegovy, which is what’s really in short supply, Torres added.“You have to be careful with those because those are not FDA-approved products, they’re not really watched by the FDA that well so it’s kind of a little bit of a wild West — you don’t know exactly what you’re getting,” Torres cautioned.agency notes on its website
. Poor compounding practices can result in quality problems, such as contamination or a drug that contains too much active ingredient, which can lead to serious injury and death, it adds. Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that makes both Wegovy and Ozempic, says it does not sell Wegovy or semaglutide for the purposes of compounding with other products.
“We have not conducted studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Wegovy when compounded with other ingredients,” the“Novo Nordisk is the only company that has FDA approval to market Wegovy and we supply it in a disposable single-use pen available by prescription only.”
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