NASH Journey

After a visit to his primary care doctor, Earl had one of his diabetic medications eliminated. This is great news. His blood sugars have been in the 130 range since then and we're pretty happy about that.  With this visit, we discussed his blood pressure which hasn't been real low but is trending down. Next visit may see a cut in one of his anti hypertensives also.   We are now titrated up to 1.7 mg and we will continue to monitor his blood pressure and blood sugars closely.  The lab report from the primary care doctor shows improvement in all his liver markers and this makes us think he isn't on a placebo. Next visit is scheduled for May 1 but the clinic may call to schedule an April visit to see if we can get back on the original dose schedule.  

 As we enter our 6th month of the clinical NASH study here in Las Vegas, we're seeing much progress.  As of today, Earl's been taken off one of his diabetic medications, Glipizide.  We can now proceed next week with an increase in his dosage of Semiglutide injection. His blood sugars are taken twice a day and as needed. We will continue to track these results and report them to the clinic staff and doctor.  He has lost a bit more weight but slowly.  He'll be scheduled for another ultrasound soon and we may see some liver improvement. We're pretty excited!