No insurance for semaglutide

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Anonymous wrote:how do you get a prescription for it if you are not obese or diabetic?

You don't. Why would you want it if you are not obese or diabetic? Oh wait, you are trolling...

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Anonymous wrote:My sister has been diabetic for 20 years. She is on Wegovy. Nothings changed. Of course, she still eats out constantly, and orders things like fettuccine Alfredo, so what can you do?

I was at a lunch today, sitting next to a table of three women. All three of them had bacon cheesburgers and fries, and as they were eating they were discussing diets and how hard it is to lose weight. (They were probably 40-50lbs overweight?). Yeah, you think? If that's how you're eating?

I lost close to 100lbs on WW. Once a week I had room in my diet for a meal like this. So ... maybe stop with the assumptions that reveal your smug stupidity?

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Anonymous wrote:The compounded versions work very well. Google compounded zepbound or semaglutide and pick a service that has very good reviews. Then pay out of pocket a few hundred a month.

Had my annual physical today and my doctor has asked me to consider Wegovy (I'm on the fence -- obesity + prediabetes with diabetes in my family). She was adamant that we not even think about using a compounding pharmacy because of how dangerous it is. She explained a bit about the stringent requirements for drug manufacturing and how those are out the window with the compounding pharmacies.

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Anonymous wrote:how do you get a prescription for it if you are not obese or diabetic?

You don't. Why would you want it if you are not obese or diabetic? Oh wait, you are trolling...

NP- You can get one if overweight. I did, online. My mom has major issues due to being obese and having type 2 diabetes, and I wasn't going to wait until I hit an actual obese weight to take action.

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Anonymous wrote:The compounded versions work very well. Google compounded zepbound or semaglutide and pick a service that has very good reviews. Then pay out of pocket a few hundred a month.

Had my annual physical today and my doctor has asked me to consider Wegovy (I'm on the fence -- obesity + prediabetes with diabetes in my family). She was adamant that we not even think about using a compounding pharmacy because of how dangerous it is. She explained a bit about the stringent requirements for drug manufacturing and how those are out the window with the compounding pharmacies.

I need to do more research on compound pharmacies but how do I find one that is legit? I have been on Ozempic and pretty successful but my insurance just stopped covering it. So frustrating.

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Anonymous wrote:The compounded versions work very well. Google compounded zepbound or semaglutide and pick a service that has very good reviews. Then pay out of pocket a few hundred a month.

Had my annual physical today and my doctor has asked me to consider Wegovy (I'm on the fence -- obesity + prediabetes with diabetes in my family). She was adamant that we not even think about using a compounding pharmacy because of how dangerous it is. She explained a bit about the stringent requirements for drug manufacturing and how those are out the window with the compounding pharmacies.

I need to do more research on compound pharmacies but how do I find one that is legit? I have been on Ozempic and pretty successful but my insurance just stopped covering it. So frustrating.

Someone mentioned there’s one in Loudoun, there’s also one in Kensington called Knowles Apothecary. I’m sure there are other local ones. I’d feel more comfortable with a local pharmacy than mail order 5 states away. Your Dr. has to send the prescription to them with FOR COMPOUNDING or something like that at the top.

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Anonymous wrote:You could eat less and move more?

Impossible. This doesn't work. All the research shows that diet and exercise do nothing.

not quite sure this is true. many people have lost weight through diet and exercise over the years. my husband is one of them. he lost 20 pounds and has kept it off for a couple years.... through diet and exercise!

yes, sometimes it comes back.

Yeah, I agree. I was being sarcastic.

I'm curious to know the origin of your character defect that creates this impulse to be sarcastic to someone asking a question in a conversation like this. Were you dropped on your head as a baby? Was your father's sperm faulty in some way? Did your mother drink while she was pregnant? Or did the nasty gene just develop naturally?

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Anonymous wrote:Are people curing their diabetes with Ozempic? Are people curing their obesity with it? Or are they just taking it for the rest of their lives, at a significant cost, only to succumb to the devastating health effects of diabetes and obesity.

Most people on diabetes meds are on them for life. The alternative to Ozempic is not no meds...

What? Ozempic is a med. Some of you will probably be on them for the rest of your lives if you don’t change basic weight loss and maintenance habits as part of your lifestyle.

Some of us do eat healthfully and exercise, but are still overweight. I have spent a good portion of my adult life eating 1200 calories/day, to no avail. I found that I actually need to eat 1000 calories/day to lose weight, and Wegovy allows me to do that by making me less hungry. I am still eating healthfully and exercising, but now I’m seeing results. My insurance probably won’t allow me to stay on it for life, but once I go off I am going to feel hungry again — something I’m not looking forward to.

Similar. Medication that I need in order to live has wrecked my metabolism. If I eat over 1200-1300 calories per day I gain. I’d love to see some of these aggressive and condescending stop-eating-huge-portions-and-junk-food!!! folks manage their diet and weight with my metabolism. Chances are high that they would weigh more than I do.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people curing their diabetes with Ozempic? Are people curing their obesity with it? Or are they just taking it for the rest of their lives, at a significant cost, only to succumb to the devastating health effects of diabetes and obesity.

Most people on diabetes meds are on them for life. The alternative to Ozempic is not no meds...

What? Ozempic is a med. Some of you will probably be on them for the rest of your lives if you don’t change basic weight loss and maintenance habits as part of your lifestyle.

Some of us do eat healthfully and exercise, but are still overweight. I have spent a good portion of my adult life eating 1200 calories/day, to no avail. I found that I actually need to eat 1000 calories/day to lose weight, and Wegovy allows me to do that by making me less hungry. I am still eating healthfully and exercising, but now I’m seeing results. My insurance probably won’t allow me to stay on it for life, but once I go off I am going to feel hungry again — something I’m not looking forward to.

Similar. Medication that I need in order to live has wrecked my metabolism. If I eat over 1200-1300 calories per day I gain. I’d love to see some of these aggressive and condescending stop-eating-huge-portions-and-junk-food!!! folks manage their diet and weight with my metabolism. Chances are high that they would weigh more than I do.

Conversely we could have you actually observed and find out you are wildly wrong about your intake, don’t move much, or are 4 feet tall.

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Anonymous wrote:My sister has been diabetic for 20 years. She is on Wegovy. Nothings changed. Of course, she still eats out constantly, and orders things like fettuccine Alfredo, so what can you do?

I was at a lunch today, sitting next to a table of three women. All three of them had bacon cheesburgers and fries, and as they were eating they were discussing diets and how hard it is to lose weight. (They were probably 40-50lbs overweight?). Yeah, you think? If that's how you're eating?

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So… you looked so closely, at three strangers as they ate, that you were able to see bacon on their burgers? Or you listened that closely as they ordered? Or you are inventing a scenario that allows you to be a bitter mean human on here?

Lol you don’t even know how stupid you sound.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people curing their diabetes with Ozempic? Are people curing their obesity with it? Or are they just taking it for the rest of their lives, at a significant cost, only to succumb to the devastating health effects of diabetes and obesity.

Most people on diabetes meds are on them for life. The alternative to Ozempic is not no meds...

What? Ozempic is a med. Some of you will probably be on them for the rest of your lives if you don’t change basic weight loss and maintenance habits as part of your lifestyle.

Some of us do eat healthfully and exercise, but are still overweight. I have spent a good portion of my adult life eating 1200 calories/day, to no avail. I found that I actually need to eat 1000 calories/day to lose weight, and Wegovy allows me to do that by making me less hungry. I am still eating healthfully and exercising, but now I’m seeing results. My insurance probably won’t allow me to stay on it for life, but once I go off I am going to feel hungry again — something I’m not looking forward to.

Similar. Medication that I need in order to live has wrecked my metabolism. If I eat over 1200-1300 calories per day I gain. I’d love to see some of these aggressive and condescending stop-eating-huge-portions-and-junk-food!!! folks manage their diet and weight with my metabolism. Chances are high that they would weigh more than I do.

Conversely we could have you actually observed and find out you are wildly wrong about your intake, don’t move much, or are 4 feet tall.

I’m 5’7” and move a great deal given that I’m writing about hiking in VA. Most underestimate their caloric intake; I do not. (Pp)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people curing their diabetes with Ozempic? Are people curing their obesity with it? Or are they just taking it for the rest of their lives, at a significant cost, only to succumb to the devastating health effects of diabetes and obesity.

Most people on diabetes meds are on them for life. The alternative to Ozempic is not no meds...

What? Ozempic is a med. Some of you will probably be on them for the rest of your lives if you don’t change basic weight loss and maintenance habits as part of your lifestyle.

Some of us do eat healthfully and exercise, but are still overweight. I have spent a good portion of my adult life eating 1200 calories/day, to no avail. I found that I actually need to eat 1000 calories/day to lose weight, and Wegovy allows me to do that by making me less hungry. I am still eating healthfully and exercising, but now I’m seeing results. My insurance probably won’t allow me to stay on it for life, but once I go off I am going to feel hungry again — something I’m not looking forward to.

Similar. Medication that I need in order to live has wrecked my metabolism. If I eat over 1200-1300 calories per day I gain. I’d love to see some of these aggressive and condescending stop-eating-huge-portions-and-junk-food!!! folks manage their diet and weight with my metabolism. Chances are high that they would weigh more than I do.

Conversely we could have you actually observed and find out you are wildly wrong about your intake, don’t move much, or are 4 feet tall.

I’m 5’7” and move a great deal given that I’m writing about hiking in VA. Most underestimate their caloric intake; I do not. (Pp)

You got me. People through hike the Appalachian on 1200 calories a day all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Are people curing their diabetes with Ozempic? Are people curing their obesity with it? Or are they just taking it for the rest of their lives, at a significant cost, only to succumb to the devastating health effects of diabetes and obesity.

Most people on diabetes meds are on them for life. The alternative to Ozempic is not no meds...

What? Ozempic is a med. Some of you will probably be on them for the rest of your lives if you don’t change basic weight loss and maintenance habits as part of your lifestyle.

Some of us do eat healthfully and exercise, but are still overweight. I have spent a good portion of my adult life eating 1200 calories/day, to no avail. I found that I actually need to eat 1000 calories/day to lose weight, and Wegovy allows me to do that by making me less hungry. I am still eating healthfully and exercising, but now I’m seeing results. My insurance probably won’t allow me to stay on it for life, but once I go off I am going to feel hungry again — something I’m not looking forward to.

Similar. Medication that I need in order to live has wrecked my metabolism. If I eat over 1200-1300 calories per day I gain. I’d love to see some of these aggressive and condescending stop-eating-huge-portions-and-junk-food!!! folks manage their diet and weight with my metabolism. Chances are high that they would weigh more than I do.

Conversely we could have you actually observed and find out you are wildly wrong about your intake, don’t move much, or are 4 feet tall.

I’m 5’7” and move a great deal given that I’m writing about hiking in VA. Most underestimate their caloric intake; I do not. (Pp)

You got me. People through hike the Appalachian on 1200 calories a day all the time.

Man, some of you people must be deeply unhappy to post stuff like this!

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Anonymous wrote:Are people curing their diabetes with Ozempic? Are people curing their obesity with it? Or are they just taking it for the rest of their lives, at a significant cost, only to succumb to the devastating health effects of diabetes and obesity.

Most people on diabetes meds are on them for life. The alternative to Ozempic is not no meds...

What? Ozempic is a med. Some of you will probably be on them for the rest of your lives if you don’t change basic weight loss and maintenance habits as part of your lifestyle.

Some of us do eat healthfully and exercise, but are still overweight. I have spent a good portion of my adult life eating 1200 calories/day, to no avail. I found that I actually need to eat 1000 calories/day to lose weight, and Wegovy allows me to do that by making me less hungry. I am still eating healthfully and exercising, but now I’m seeing results. My insurance probably won’t allow me to stay on it for life, but once I go off I am going to feel hungry again — something I’m not looking forward to.

Similar. Medication that I need in order to live has wrecked my metabolism. If I eat over 1200-1300 calories per day I gain. I’d love to see some of these aggressive and condescending stop-eating-huge-portions-and-junk-food!!! folks manage their diet and weight with my metabolism. Chances are high that they would weigh more than I do.

Conversely we could have you actually observed and find out you are wildly wrong about your intake, don’t move much, or are 4 feet tall.

I’m 5’7” and move a great deal given that I’m writing about hiking in VA. Most underestimate their caloric intake; I do not. (Pp)

You got me. People through hike the Appalachian on 1200 calories a day all the time.

Man, some of you people must be deeply unhappy to post stuff like this!

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Not sure why else that Pp would be invested enough to type up a response like that (a response that isn't even on point -- no one said they were hiking the entire AT).