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<blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 58156" data-attributes="member: 1338"><p><strong>Re: Anyone use Byetta?</strong></p><p></p><p>On the basis of "if it ain't bust don't fix it", I think I'll stick with Byetta until the weekly version comes out. I think we also need to bear in mind that any drug that gets approved in the US, generally only gets UK approval once it has been in use for at least a year in the States. </p><p></p><p>Our authorities do seem to like using our American cousins as guinea pigs! We have been doing this ever since metformin was first developed in the early 70s. Originally there were two drugs, phenformin and metformin. Phenformin was much stronger of the two so metformin was discarded as being of limited value and phenformin was licenced. Unfortunately phenformin had a bad side effect - it tended to kill the patients. It was very hurriedly withdrawn and metformin has been in use ever since. Amazingly phenformin is still prescribed in Romania and Spain, but under the name buformin (brand name Silubin).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dennis, post: 58156, member: 1338"] [b]Re: Anyone use Byetta?[/b] On the basis of "if it ain't bust don't fix it", I think I'll stick with Byetta until the weekly version comes out. I think we also need to bear in mind that any drug that gets approved in the US, generally only gets UK approval once it has been in use for at least a year in the States. Our authorities do seem to like using our American cousins as guinea pigs! We have been doing this ever since metformin was first developed in the early 70s. Originally there were two drugs, phenformin and metformin. Phenformin was much stronger of the two so metformin was discarded as being of limited value and phenformin was licenced. Unfortunately phenformin had a bad side effect - it tended to kill the patients. It was very hurriedly withdrawn and metformin has been in use ever since. Amazingly phenformin is still prescribed in Romania and Spain, but under the name buformin (brand name Silubin). [/QUOTE]
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