Semaglutide is a GLP-1 medication. Semaglutide can be used to help treat type 2 diabetes, as well as helping people with weight management. Only available for patients that fail or cannot use commercially available GLP-1 medications. Medical necessity required by a licensed physician.

Semaglutide is a medication that works by mimicking the GLP-1 protein in your body. By mimicking GLP-1, it can help deliver certain effects including increased insulin release, less glucagon release, slowing how fast food can leave your stomach, and making you feel less hungry. For people who are trying to lose weight, these effects may combine to help them eat fewer calories and ultimately lose extra weight.

Semaglutide lozenges: When using a Semaglutide lozenge, you will likely be instructed to use one every day, once a day, at approximately the same time. This is a sublingual lozenge, so you will not swallow the lozenge, but let it slowly dissolve under your tongue to help with the absorption of the medication. It is also important to know that you will want to combine your Semaglutide treatment with increased physical activity and a healthy reduced calorie diet for the best results.

Talk to your Strut doctor about how well you are tolerating your current strength and how well it is working for you to come up with a dosage increase plan.

Once Semaglutide is in your system, you may start feeling the effects of being less hungry, or feeling like your food is staying in your stomach for longer. However, these effects may take a little longer for some people to feel. If you are using Semaglutide for weight loss, be patient, since even if the medication is helping you consume fewer calories, it may take many weeks or months to physically see changes.

For oral Semaglutide lozenges, you will likely be using the lozenges once daily. Your prescriber will develop a dosing schedule that best fits your needs, if medically necessary.

Before starting Semaglutide, you should let your doctor know about any weight-related diseases or problems you are currently experiencing (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes). You should also let your doctor know about any gastrointestinal issues or diseases you are dealing with, since Semaglutide may also come along with gastrointestinal side effects. Let your doctor know about a history of thyroid cancer, glandular tumors, diabetic ketoacidosis, pancreatitis, kidney disease, or diabetic eye problems.

While you are taking semaglutide, you may want to avoid other medications in the same class of drugs (GLP-1 agonists). Your doctor may also ask about other medications that you are using that can decrease your blood glucose levels, like diabetes medications. You may want to avoid high-fat foods, foods with lots of added sugar, trans and saturated fats, processed carbohydrates, and foods with high sodium. Not only may these foods hinder your weight loss and health goals, but they may bring more digestive discomfort while you are using Semaglutide.

The most common side effects of Semaglutide involve your digestion and gastrointestinal tract. Burping, bloating, gas, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, upset stomach, stomach pain, constipation, diarrhea, or symptoms that feel like a stomach flu may occur. Other common side effects may include headache, dizziness, tiredness, and low blood sugar levels in people who have diabetes. For a full list of the possible side effects of Semaglutide, including the less common but more serious side effects, look at the patient safety information and the Semaglutide package information.

Your medication may or may not be cold shipped with an icepack, depending on the product you are using and the pharmacy it ships from. Review the storage instructions on and with your product and store it as directed after it arrives. If you have any questions on storage or otherwise, feel free to contact us.

Compounded Semaglutide is a medication that is made up at a U.S.-licensed compounding pharmacy, according to a prescription written by a U.S. prescribing physician. These compounding pharmacies only source raw pharmaceutical ingredients from FDA-licensed facilities, and they perform sterility, potency, and purity tests on sterile compounds. Compounded medications are legal, and the pharmacies must abide by strict guidelines specifically for compounding pharmacies. Compounded drugs differ from drugs manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in that they do not go through the pre-market FDA-approval process. For this reason, no compounded medications are FDA-approved. This is because they are not made in large batches, but instead are put together according to a prescriber’s prescription. Strut Health only works with U.S.-licensed sterile and non-sterile compounding pharmacies.

The brand-name Semaglutide medications are all FDA-approved and are manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in large batches for sale at retail pharmacies. Strut Health does not have or claim any endorsement from or affiliation with brand-name products or their manufacturers. Strut Health only offers compounded Semaglutide which is made in accordance with the USP compounded standards outlined for compounding pharmacies. All compounding pharmacies Strut Health works with are U.S.-licensed and strictly regulated. All compounded medications made by any compounding pharmacy are not FDA-approved, as they are made according to individual prescriptions issued by a prescriber. Because of this, compounded medications may differ from FDA-approved manufactured medications by strength, route of administration, packaging, dose, or other variables. All compounded medication prescriptions from Strut Health are issued based on a telehealth consultation and review of all pertinent medical history. The prescription is approved only when appropriate based on the licensed physician's medical judgment.