Fit
The current label directs prescribers to check blood sugar before treatment and from time to time during treatment.
The visit map
What a careful visit needs to cover
The point is not to pass a quiz. It is to give the prescriber enough detail to judge whether the medicine fits.
Checklist
Before the visit
A short note can save time and make the talk more concrete.
Your goal
Describe the body change or concern that led to the search.
Your health history
Include HIV care, past or active cancer, pregnancy, diabetes, and recent serious illness. Also mention anything that affected the pituitary gland, the small gland under the brain that makes growth hormone, such as surgery there, radiation to the head, or a serious head injury.
Your medicine list
Include prescriptions, over-the-counter products, and supplements. Say so if you take steroid pills such as prednisone because your adrenal glands, small glands above the kidneys, do not make enough of their own.
Your past results
Bring any recent blood sugar or IGF-1 result if it already exists. Do not order a test just for this guide.
Compare
During the visit
A careful review connects the label to the person.
Monitoring
The label also calls for IGF-1 checks and closer eye monitoring for people with diabetes.
Limits
If an exam, scan, or lab is needed, the prescriber can arrange it or send the patient to local care.