# Statins for all men of a certain age?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 1, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statins-for-all-men-of-a-certain-age/968921 "2022-08-01T13:47:12Z")\
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**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:** [August 19, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statins-for-all-men-of-a-certain-age/968921/71 "2024-08-19T14:35:15Z")

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> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> (I also posted in the Ozempic thread because cholesterol numbers look good, but A1c not so much)

> [@Ask the person taking Ozempic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-person-taking-ozempic/981193/140):
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> 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.

In a conversation a little over a month ago, my doctor said she had come in ready to prescribe Metformin or Ozempic but was so surprised at my recent weight loss (which has been intentional, mainly reducing carbs and doing more walking), that she wanted to pause on any prescriptions and delay my blood draw to give the weight loss more time to help. I went in today, and my A1C was down to 5.9. Woot! She hasn’t gotten back to me, but I assume we’ll continue holding off. Thanks to @DSeid by the way, I had already planned to exercise, but his comment about the need to exercise above did stick in my head.

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