Remember that the information presented here is not intended to replace the care of your own doctor. Before making any changes in the management of
your own illness, you should consult your physician or other qualified medical professionals.
Question
Do you know how I can find a doctor in my area that would treat me with Byetta
for insulin
resistance?
It seems all the doctors are afraid to prescribe it unless you have
diabetes.
Answer
Sorry, but there's no listing available of physicians who deliberately use
medications off-label, and as you know, Byetta is approved only for people
with diabetes, and its use in other situations has not been adequately
studied. For you to use it in unapproved indications is risky — if
something went wrong, you could be greatly harmed, and turn around and sue
the prescribing physician. Hence, most physicians are unwilling to
prescribe new medications on a patients' whim.
You could look for a clinical
trial using Byetta in insulin resistance. Ask at nearby medical schools, or
look at ClinicalTrials.gov.
The only medication that's been widely studied for use in insulin
resistance is metformin.
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