# Ask the person taking Ozempic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-person-taking-ozempic/981193 "2023-03-14T23:10:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 140
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-person-taking-ozempic/981193/140 "2024-05-16T13:53:52Z")
So my doctor told me yesterday that my A1C had finally breached into diabetes at 7.1 (not a surprise as it has been working its way up for three or four years), and then she went on to say that she didn’t want to prescribe me Ozempic because it was unavailable so often. I think she was thinking that Ozempic was something that would be on my mind, but to be honest, I didn’t even know Ozempic was a diabetes drug…I had barely paid attention to the news on it, and only knew of all absurd things that Oprah had touted it. Anyway, now I am very curious about this drug, thanks for starting the thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-person-taking-ozempic/981193)._