Friend recently was given a prescription by her physician for Byetta for weight loss. My friend does not have diabetes, and other than a weight problem is healthy. Byetta is only in an injectable form. the only close monitoring my friend has is a monthly fasting blood glucose. Thus, there is "off label" use of Byetta.
There have been rare occurrances of pancreatitis associated with byetta; still my husband would be very interested in a clinical trial of byetta.