Taking the new Wegovy pill every day is really complicated. Will patients stick with it?
'It's not an easy pill to take': The first highly anticipated GLP-1 pill is here, but physicians aren't sure it has the staying power of the injections. Once you take the Wegovy pill in the morning, you have to wait 30 minutes before eating or drinking anything.Patients are thrilled that there's finally a GLP-1 pill, but swallowing one is not as simple as it seems.Taking Novo Nordisk's Wegovy pill is an exacting process. You have to take it first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach, with no more than half a cup of water. Then you wait 30 minutes before eating breakfast, drinking coffee and other liquids, or taking other medications. You have to take the pill every day at the same time, and you must store it in the bottle .It's the first oral GLP-1 specifically approved for weight management. GLP-1 traditionally works best in an injection, but Novo Nordisk engineered the pill using technology that it acquired in 2020 to improve how well semaglutide - the medication's active ingre
