ElizabethT
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Friends of mine who had to stop the injections (usually because their insurance stopped covering it) gained the weight back in a few months. So it is a long term thing but so are many medications--my husband takes Humira injections for psoriatic arthritis and has been told her will have to do that the rest of his life to keep the disease in remission.
Yes, that would be as it would seem from what I've read. The cost is the 1000 pound gorilla in the room then, yes? Perhaps over time the cost will drop as competition arises. Otherwise it almost seems cruel to give hope, then snatch it away due to non sustainability of cost.