Injectable Med Used With Insulin For Weight Loss
My Byetta Progress Report
The pounds keep coming off.
In my previous progress report here about my weight loss on Byetta I was just getting started. In my first month and one-half of taking this new medicine for diabetes I wrote that I had lost 22 pounds.
That was back in March. I don’t see my doctor, Jeffry N. Gerber, M.D., often. That’s partly because his office south of Denver is about an hour from my home in Boulder. Why my doctor is so far from where I live is something that I explained in an even earlier bl...
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