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Do you think Reta will become available?

thailand teacher

thailand teacher

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Type of diabetes
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I’ve had type 2 diabetes for years now with blood sugar about 8.0 ive been on that new injection reta for a month now blood sugar today 5.4 and stopped all the metformin I was on… this new feta is the way to go even though you can’t legally buy it or get it prescribed, I think the big pharma will be trying to put their blockers on it ever being available… what do you think? Please let me know I am 59 years old male from UK.


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Hi @thailand teacher

You say you are on the medication Reta, can you clarify what that is, do you mean retatrutide? I’ve done a bit of googling and as you say it’s not available yet & still in clinical trials in the UK & USA. How is it that you have been on it for a month? Are you on the clinical trial? It sounds promising as a weight loss drug but can’t find anything linking it to being a medication for T2


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My surgery was asking for volunteers for the Retatrutide trial til recently. I’m happy with the results I’m getting from Tirzapetide (Mounjaro) so didn’t volunteer. They have said they don’t need anymore volunteers now.
 
I think there is a very good chance it becomes available, but it is not there yet. Lilly already has positive Phase 3 results and has said they plan to submit it to the FDA in early 2027, so this is well beyond the stage of being just an interesting experimental drug.

I would be much more concerned about what you are taking right now though. Anything being sold as retatrutide outside a clinical trial is not an approved Lilly product, so there is no reliable way to know exactly what is in the vial or whether the stated dose is accurate.

Also, I would not stop metformin solely because one glucose reading came down. That is something I would discuss with whoever manages your diabetes and ideally look at your A1C and overall glucose pattern first.

As for big pharma blocking it, Lilly is one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world and they are the company developing retatrutide, so I really do not see that being the obstacle. The bigger question is simply getting the remaining trials, regulatory review and manufacturing sorted.
 
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