Anyone else sick of that Jardiance diabetes drug commercial?

[Zorro]

GAH! It's as annoying as the Lume commercials.

And it's on ALL the time!

[onecaliberal]

1. It's also not factual. You won't have a normal A1c until your weight is under control.

It’s sad and false advertising.

[dchill]

3. That's the most disgusting part.

[onecaliberal]

6. Agreed.

[dchill]

2. It's the worst.

The little pill with a big stow Rita tell.

[Sneederbunk]

25. Worse thsn women pooping or shaving their private parts?

[dchill]

27. They're sense-offense equals!

[snowybirdie]

4. YES!

🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐

[Bayard]

5. I'm sick of all drug commercials,

Including OTC's.

[roamer65]

7. I hated the Skyrizi ads.

Dunno why. Just hated them and the name of the drug.

[Grins]

8. GAH!!!! Yes!!!!!!!! Hate it.

[Zorro]

10. Vabysmo ads are cringe inducing if you pay attention

Beach scene, garden scene, forest scene -- all it takes is having a needle poked in your eye...

[Cairycat]

34. I've been living that for the last 16 years

it ain't fun but it beats the hell out of going blind. (not with Vabysmo, other macular degeneration drugs)

[LW1977]

9. Sick of all Pharmaceutical ads except the boner pill ones..

It’s bad enough when they air during commercial breaks on 24 hour news channels and the news itself is depressing.

[Skittles]

33. why the boner pill exception?

pretty sickening, knowing what they are doing with reproductive rights

[louslobbs]

11. My dog knows the commercial well and as soon as the first few notes are played

He runs from wherever he is and goes on a barking jag until the commercial is over or I change the channel. Sometimes, I just let him watch the entire commercial because he seems to hate it as much as I do and I let him speak…..errr bark, his displeasure for me.

[Jeebo]

12. That jingle gets stuck in my head and drives me nuts.

I always frantically reach for the mute button when that ad comes on, sometimes too late. Then that obscene jingle starts bouncing around inside my skull, and to preserve my sanity, I have to listen to some Beethoven or Mahler or Sibelius until the jingle demon finally is exorcised.

-- Ron

[rsdsharp]

13. I hate all of the "ask your doctor," "tell your doctor if you have. . ."

pharmaceutical commercials. Shouldn’t your doctor tell you if the drug is right for you, given your health history?

That said, the one that really fries me right now (pun intended) is the Liberty Mutual ad where the woman is going to add it to her phonnnnnnn-ah, with the worst vocal fry I’ve ever heard. I don’t know whether it’s because I used to talk for a living, or because I’m just old and crotchety, but I can’t stand vocal fry, and it’s becoming more common.

[Polly Hennessey]

14. Hate them all. The Jardiance and Lume are

the worst. However, there is one that is a head scratcher. It states that one of the side effects is “sudden death”. What? And I can’t remember which drug makes that startling statement.

[hlthe2b]

15. NOTHING is worse than the original LUME commercials. UGGH.

I'll leave it there as I have expounded on my hate for that ad and its grifting product spokesperson (supposed OB/GYN) many times.

Yeah, the Jardiance ad gets old, but I'd continue to watch it a zillion times a day if we could just get the damned Lume ad (and "Dr." Shannon Klingman) off the air permanently.

[Jilly_in_VA]

19. That one goes back to the 1950s

when we were all scared of smelling! Any of you older ladies remember the ads in women's mags for ENNDS vaginal suppositories? And then later on there was (still is) Summer's Eve, FDS, and all that BS.

[hlthe2b]

23. Not one of those was so crude, so blatantly misogynistic. Girls are put in menstruation huts and

not infrequently die--because they are considered unclean in many countries to this day. The most recent documented example:

Teenage girl dies after being forced to stay in a ‘period hut’ in Nepal
Anita Chand, from Baitadi district, in the west of the country, bordering India, is understood to have died on Wednesday from a snake bite while she was sleeping. Her death is the first reported fatality from chhaupadi since 2019 and campaigners fear progress to eliminate the practice is being eroded.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/aug/11/teenage-girl-dies-after-being-forced-to-stay-in-a-period-hut-in-nepal


Well, "Grifter Dr." Shannon Klingman and her flippant "buttcrack" vernacular is adding to that nasty perception.

It is not funny; it is not a minor thing. It is demeaning to women and medically questionable for most in the industrialized world where sanitation and showers are readily available. But, that wouldn't get her her grift and attention...

[debm55]

39. I do, I used Summer's Eve.

[Evergreen Emerald]

28. I use Lume

And I love it.

[hlthe2b]

29. Good for you, but that is not at all germane to my comment or issues.

--unless you are personally involved in the scripting and production of those commercials.

[Evergreen Emerald]

30. pffft

[Ocelot II]

45. Yup None of these ads have to do with the quality of the product, but the quality of the ads.

Lume might work as advertised and make your butt crack smell like roses, but the ad is gross. Jardience might work (though some have said it doesn't), but a Busby Berkeley song and dance routine about diabetes is just weird and creepy. Likewise, the Pepto-Bismol ad where they sing about diarrhea while patting their butts. Or about how some drug keeps you from having to go to the bathroom all the time. Or bears using toilet paper. Or the laxative ad about squeezing out a porcupine. The bent carrot ad. The pee-proof panties ad. The toe fungus remedy ad.

All of these products might work just fine, but the ads are gross; and for the love of God, DON'T SING SONGS ABOUT DIARRHEA!!

[Cronezilla]

16. I hate ALL of the Rx med ads...

...especially those for "digestive issues" like IBS where the characters
are sitting on toilets, in public places (like restaurants!), fully clothed and talking
about their uncontrolable bowel movements.
And NO, I'm not going to "talk to my doctor" about some medication that now
costs $5k+ a month just because Big Pharma want us to pay for their annoying,
high frequency, prime time advertising.

[iscooterliberally]

17. The one that really got me years ago was something called Xenical

I found the commercial to be kind of horrifying in that one of the side effects was, "may cause oily bowel movements and inability to control them". I couldn't understand why they would pay to advertise that.

[Grammy23]

18. I'm a bit ticked off at the moment

About Dexcom the Continuous Glucose Monitor that’ll get your glucose levels down and thus your A1c…..as if the monitor by itself will do that. The only way that works is for you to pay attention to foods/beverages that spike your blood glucose and avoid eating them — faithfully. Not just once in a while. The monitor is a tool that is only as effective as the human who utilizes the information it gives.

As for the Lume deodorant cream/soap whatever it is …..if you can detect that my butt crack smells, you need to back off. I’m still going to shower with my Safeguard soap, the same as always. The Hygiene Police are not going to bully me into using some overpriced anti-stink cream because somebody decided we need to be even more paranoid about body odor than we already are. Geeze, Louise. 🫣

[Jilly_in_VA]

20. The stray jail boss at the shelter

uses the Dexcom and it's been a lifesaver for her. She was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at age 5 and her diabetes is pretty unstable. So the Dexcom really helps in her case. I don't have such a problem with that.

However, Jardiance or any other Rx drug commercial? GET IT OFF THE AIR! Those goddamn things need to be outlawed again. I don't remember how they got legalized in the first place but it needs to be revoked. Pharmaceutical companies are spending billions on that and then upping OUR prices to justify that, claiming that the additional cost is due to "research". Yeah, no.

As for Lume, nobody smells that much. Ever. If you're that close to me, back the hell off because you don't need to be.

[LuckyCharms]

37. It got my a1c down.

I am a type 1. Sometimes it doesn't matter what you eat, or what you don't eat.

I can skip meals, or not eat enough carbs, and have high glucose because my liver will dump glucose into my blood because it thinks I'm starving.

Sometimes I can wolf down a bunch of pizza, and my glucose stays level.

Sometimes exercise brings glucose up. Sometimes it brings it down.

Stress of any kind will mess with your glucose.

The good thing about the Dexcom CGM is that it is continuous, and you can see your glucose level at a glance, as well as the direction it is heading, without poking your fingers 20 times a day.

It also wakes you up in the middle of the night if you are going too high, or too low.

Especially for Type 1 diabetics, saying that glucose levels are only related to the foods you eat is disingenuous.

The major problem with Type 1 is going too low because you over-estimated your insulin needs, which will kill you quickly. Dexcom helps prevent this.

[GoodRaisin]

48. You don't have to stick your fingers for blood readings with the glucose monitor.

My type 1 diabetic son has had to deal with that since he was 6. He’s 36 now and only recently got his first continuous glucose monitor. Using the continuous monitor system he can get better control and hopefully live a longer life. It’s a big advancement in diabetes care. My heartburn with the monitor is it’s not affordable for everybody that needs one. Insulin is not the only high cost associated with diabetes. Insulin delivery systems and testing are also very expensive.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

49. I am type II diabetic and my doctor wants me to try a monitor

I am on trulicity which is working for me. My last A1Cs were 5.3 and 5.2. after cutting my insulin dosages i am having low blood sugars which are scary

[central scrutinizer]

21. Some of the ones on Peacock+ are refreshing

Ads for meds to either control HIV or help prevent HIV show gay men dancing, flirting, hugging, kissing.

[Drum]

22. At our house we call it "Pharma Glee."

[wackadoo wabbit]

43. Yes! This is a perfect name for them

Personally, I always think Fame when I see the commercials, but "Pharma Glee" is an absolutely excellent name!

You're very funny.

[asiliveandbreathe]

24. Talk about insult to our intelligence..all the singin an dancin for drugs...watch

Mostly sports..always a game to turn to..now, with that said..hubby and I laugh our asses off at the Chewy "VARZE" commercial..

Can't we just say vase?..the dog says VARZE....in debate lately with each other..I don't let the volley get too long b4 I say VARZE..we both break out laughing..so unexpected..the white flag of debate..VARZE...

[Ocelot II]

35. And the other Chewy ad where the cat inherits the beach house,

and Todd gets the train set.

[doc03]

26. I can live with that but Liberty got to go. nt

[jmowreader]

38. Oh, you mean "Limu Emu and Doug"?

Where they wore the premise out five years ago so they had to add Limu and Doug's kids to it?

[debm55]

41. I like that commercial.

[Yavin4]

31. The amount of money that goes into the production of those ads and the cost to air them...

all have to be recouped with higher drug prices.

[gratuitous]

32. I'm sick of any ads for products you can't buy

I'm a grown up, so I know that advertising is what pays the bills for television stations and cable outlets. But if someone had said, in say 1968, that in the near future most of the ads on teevee would be for products the viewer couldn't buy, you'd probably get a welfare visit from the local constabulary to see if you had all your marbles. If you persisted, and said that anywhere from half to three-quarters of these ads for products you couldn't buy would be devoted to potential unpleasant side effects up to and including death, they'd be fitting you for a straitjacket.

If they hadn't gagged you, you could go on to say that these unbuyable products were meant for a vanishingly small percentage of the audience, less than 10% in many cases, and the ads would be featured on some of the most expensive advertising space, like the nightly news or major sports championship events. When you got to the part where the advertising of these unbuyable products made the cost prohibitively expensive and the manufacturers blamed it on the cost of research and development (which are heavily subsidized by the government) rather than the cost of advertising, well, you'd be in a rubber room talking to some guy who thinks he's Napoleon.

[jmowreader]

42. The worst one in that regard is BASF

I don't remember the last time I bought any propylene oxide or toluene diisocyanate, but that's the kind of things they sell - and the people who do buy that stuff already know who makes it.

[LuckyCharms]

36. Colace knows that going #2 can sometimes feel like you

pinched off a porcupine. When pooping is painful, use doctor recommended Colace.

So your sitting there eating a nice brownie with nuts in it, that commercial comes on, and you recoil in disgust.

That's the one I hate the most.

[Emile]

40. The little pill with the big story to tell, so sick 🤢 of it!

[demigoddess]

44. I agree with every single one of you. Those ads drive me crazy and it started with the

one that said the side effect might be death. Or the one for metastatic breast cancer which says "if you plan to become pregnant". Yikes!!

[Raine]

46. I HATE HATE HATE it!!! 😡🤬 nt

[GoodRaisin]

47. There are two of them now.

In the newest one the postman in the first version changes jobs and wears an apron in the second version.

Yeah, these ads are beyond dumb.

[MistakenLamb]

50. I don't watch television

Is it really that bad? The really annoying commercials on Sirius are "Big Lou" and those Gold IRA ones hyperbolically warning about a one world government centralized bank is coming for your bank money. And that one plays on Progress and UrbanView too

[jcgoldie]

51. I just wish I was as happy as people in drug commercials

I told my wife if you go around smiling at strangers like those people in the drug commercials everyone will think you are a serial killer or something