 Plus, people taking Manjaro lost up to 25 pounds. To be clear, all those ads touting the number of pounds patients lost were for drugs approved for diabetes. But that hasn't stopped people from using these drugs for weight loss anyway. For Cox, the diabetes patient who couldn't fill his prescription, this kind of advertising by drug makers makes him angry. They just went overboard. And they saw dollar signs and they went for it. And they didn't consider the fact they are hurting their base clientele, their patients.