How Is Everyone Getting Weight Loss Medication?

[Anonymous]

It seems like everyone I know is suddenly dropping weight very quickly. I am guessing that weight loss medications may be playing a role. But how is everyone getting them? Unless you have diabetes, i have read that it costs over $ 1000 a month.

[Anonymous]

The two people I know who are taking them (and they've lost a lot of weight) had doctors who coded them as prediabetic and were able to get insurance coverage.

Now though they're dealing with the shortages of the drugs and struggling to find a pharmacy who has it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, those I know who've been on them are prediabetic and had insurance cover them. In other words, I don't know anyone who have gotten them without some sort of preexisting condition. Everyone I know who's gotten them needed to lose weight.

[Anonymous]

I dropped weight quickly but it had nothing to do with medication. I just stopped eating as much. Perhaps there are different reasons, maybe your friends have health issues?

[Anonymous]

As far as I know, it’s not difficult to get Saxenda if you have the weight to lose. Wegovy might still have shortages and mounjaro just changed its coupon which makes it much harder to get if you aren’t diabetic. It’s not approved for weight loss yet, but I think it will be soon.

But as someone who has been on Saxenda, stopped for quite a while and is not back on—it’s not a magic pill. You still have to eat less. For me, it just helps take away my appetite and cravings, so it’s easier to stick to a diet.

It stopped working for me last time, and I stopped and gained all the weight back. Seems to be working again now. But I will probably need to be on something for life and never go back to eating carbs on a regular basis to keep weight off.

I am technically obese…around a size 16…working to get down to around a size 12.

[Anonymous]

Sorry…that was NOW back on

[Anonymous]

It was very easy to get Saxenda. I’m on Day 26 and have lost 6-7 pounds. It is so much easier to resist binging. I’m under 180 again, hoping for 160 or even 150.

[Anonymous]

Just started Ozempic, prescribed by primary care doc. I’m legit fat and pre-diabetic. I have a lot of weight to lose.

[Anonymous]

Privileged people sucking up supply of these drugs from people that actually need them. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just started Ozempic, prescribed by primary care doc. I’m legit fat and pre-diabetic. I have a lot of weight to lose.

Any side effects??

[Anonymous]

What I the difference between Saxenda and Ozempic ? Which works better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Privileged people sucking up supply of these drugs from people that actually need them. Disgusting.

Get f-ed. Seriously. My doctor thought it was beneficial for me to get on Ozempic since I was on BP meds, and was about to get on cholesterol meds. You're actually feeling sorry for the big pharma not producing enough of the medication that is helping people lose weight and get healthier. You are what is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Privileged people sucking up supply of these drugs from people that actually need them. Disgusting.

Get f-ed. Seriously. My doctor thought it was beneficial for me to get on Ozempic since I was on BP meds, and was about to get on cholesterol meds. You're actually feeling sorry for the big pharma not producing enough of the medication that is helping people lose weight and get healthier. You are what is disgusting.

Well if you were smart enough to figure out why there is a shortage maybe you would be getting somewhere. If you want to get hooked on big pharma instead of buckling down and doing the hard work to correct your health ship, go right ahead. I can guarantee that’s a garbage long term solution.

Your doctor is giving you meds because they know compliance is effectively zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Privileged people sucking up supply of these drugs from people that actually need them. Disgusting.

Get f-ed. Seriously. My doctor thought it was beneficial for me to get on Ozempic since I was on BP meds, and was about to get on cholesterol meds. You're actually feeling sorry for the big pharma not producing enough of the medication that is helping people lose weight and get healthier. You are what is disgusting.

Well if you were smart enough to figure out why there is a shortage maybe you would be getting somewhere. If you want to get hooked on big pharma instead of buckling down and doing the hard work to correct your health ship, go right ahead. I can guarantee that’s a garbage long term solution.

Your doctor is giving you meds because they know compliance is effectively zero.

Or maybe, just maybe, if close to zero percent of people succeed at losing weight long term “doing the hard work” it’s not actually a failure by humans but a failure in the method. Humans are wired the way we’re wired. We know conclusively that dieting doesn’t work, so let’s figure out something else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Privileged people sucking up supply of these drugs from people that actually need them. Disgusting.

Get f-ed. Seriously. My doctor thought it was beneficial for me to get on Ozempic since I was on BP meds, and was about to get on cholesterol meds. You're actually feeling sorry for the big pharma not producing enough of the medication that is helping people lose weight and get healthier. You are what is disgusting.

Well if you were smart enough to figure out why there is a shortage maybe you would be getting somewhere. If you want to get hooked on big pharma instead of buckling down and doing the hard work to correct your health ship, go right ahead. I can guarantee that’s a garbage long term solution.

Your doctor is giving you meds because they know compliance is effectively zero.

Or maybe, just maybe, if close to zero percent of people succeed at losing weight long term “doing the hard work” it’s not actually a failure by humans but a failure in the method. Humans are wired the way we’re wired. We know conclusively that dieting doesn’t work, so let’s figure out something else.

That’s nonsense that gets spewed by people that can’t handle changing their habits. All of that is possible. You don’t need “miracle” drugs.

It’s a failure that only appeared in the last 50 years. It takes a lot of conscious work to gain all that weight. Just like it takes a lot of conscious work to take it off. I did it and I’ve maintained it.

No way would I ever sign up to be a slave to big pharma. You would think after the last two years of insanity that people would be running away from that. Guess not. Good luck saddling yourself with a life time of compliance by chemistry.

I’m so tired of people like you spewing this sh8t to feel superior. Does it make your day to be a hateful bi$!h? Or maybe you’re just a good natured Samaritan trying to tell us the truth we’ve all been too stupid and too stubborn to see. Or maybe you’re a scientist who has studied obesity your whole life and has irrefutable evidence that your method works (even though it hasn’t). Or maybe just maybe you don’t know a damn thing but are hateful and arrogant enough to keep coming back to be an ass to people just trying to do their damn best with the cards they were given.

I really hope someone kicks you when you’re at your lowest.