Getting on GLP-1 after doctor says no

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Anonymous wrote:Losing even 5 pounds on your own, the good old fashioned way: eating less and exercising, does wonders for your overall sense of well being. So what if it takes 3 weeks or 3 months to do it. In that time, you change your habits and set a course to lose the additional 10-20 pounds. That is what is meant by lifestyle changes. It is worth it, just take it 5 pounds at a time.

I bet she never thought of eating less and exercising more! So helpful!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You do not need her permission. Your primary care doctor is not a god or your boss. I would disclose it because it is good for your doctor to have all of the info, but I would also switch docs if she gave me a hard time.

But as a society, we choose drugs that have a professional gatekeeper for a reason.

It is not candy.

And when I am not being treated as I deem to be correct, I go elsewhere. Last year, my child had pneumonia. Was given an antibiotic and it recovered almost immediately after taking it. Fever was gone in 36 hours. So obviously bacterial. I became sick right after. Was sick for 10 days. Finally saw my dr. Refused to give me an antibiotic. Stayed sick for 3 more days. Did an online thing for an antibiotic. Felt better within 24 hours. Doctors do not always get it right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I asked once and was denied, asked again a year later and was denied again, went online and got it from Ro, and after a few weeks I sent her a message saying oh by the way I'm taking this med now, I added it to my mychart. And she said great thanks for letting me know. The end. She's still my doc and I still like her. She's just very old school on the idea of GLP-1s. But she was fantastic for many other medical issues I've had in the past 20 years.

People forget that a doctor’s license comes under scrutiny for all prescriptions they write. Your doctor can say I’m not comfortable prescribing X and it’s nothing against the patient and everything about protecting their standing. As long as they know what you’re doing, they can continue to treat you with that in mind.

[Anonymous]

You need to find a different PCP, because as other said, you need a doctor who can supervise you while you are on this medication.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t you just eat less and consume smaller portions? That’s what GLPs make you do and you can absolutely do it on your own.

Oh FFS. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

It's because you are an emotional eater that you can't eat less without drugs. You are drugging yourself with food. Therapy or facing what hurts you on your own are too expensive and time consuming. Plus, you have to change. Why not just shoot up some glps? So much easier, albeit more expensive. So what if you vomit for 2 hours straight the day you inject (this happens to my friend every Tuesday)? As long as you don't aspirate your vomit, it will be ok.

This was unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your doc needs to monitor liver function when on these meds. Also if you have side effects it’s a conversation that you would want to have openly.

Stop making things up. This is incorrect info.

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Anonymous wrote:Your doc needs to monitor liver function when on these meds. Also if you have side effects it’s a conversation that you would want to have openly.

Stop making things up. This is incorrect info.

DP. My doctor monitors for liver function. Your online “doctor” doesn’t?

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Anonymous wrote:Seeking out weight loss drugs after your doctor advised against it is disordered. If you truly believe you need these drugs and that your doctor is incompetent, get a second opinion or change doctors. The fact that you posed this question here and the chorus of similarly disordered people are guiding you to their suppliers betrays your and their disorders. This smacks of eating disorders, body dysmorphia as well as addictive behavior.

Wanting to be a normal weight is not "disordered" or "body dysmorphia" when your doctor tells you you should be a normal weight and is just unwilling to use available treatments to help a patient achieve recommended goals. A second opinion probably would yield the same exact frustrating result because GPs are not incompetent so much as following their mindset which is old school and basic when it comes to weight management, and aligned with broad recommendations rather than the patient in front of them.

I'm a registered dietitian and I see this very often. The issue is the definition of "normal weight." And yes, most often, as I get to know the patient, other factors begin to present that raise the issue of body dysmorphia, disordered eating (past or current), OCD, ADHD and other presentations of disordered thinking.

The definition was presented by the doctor who told op she was overweight. It was not in her head. It's not disordered to think that if your doctor tells you you are overweight and need to lose weight you are in fact overweight.

+1 Right?!?!

Being overweight by 10-20 pounds is not the same as being obese or being overweight and having diabetes, high bp, high cholesterol. The doctor told you that you are overweight and should work to lose the weight. She didn't say, "you're fat, good luck with that." Most likely, she recommended a mediterranean or heart smart, plant based diet along with exercise. That's not as easy as jabbing a needle into your stomach and it takes longer, which is why you are recoiling and looking for another means of getting the drug.

Oh F off
So you’re fine with it for obese people but not those of us working our asses off who still can’t lose the rest?
-not op

People famously underestimate how much they actually eat. If you are eating at a deficit consistently, you will lose weight.My concern is the otherwise healthy, slightly overweight people messing it up for those who truly need it for health reasons. You people caused a shortage and my bil had no access to Ozempic, which he took for diabetes.

There was NEVER a shortage for diabetics. They always got priority in every pharmacy during a brief shortage. Furthermore, there certainly isn't a shortage now and OP isn't going to get Ozempic without a script. So please save us your fake, ignorant outrage because it was never about that. It's litteraly NONE of your business why people go on these meds. It's between them and their doctors.

That’s the point of this entire thread. OP does not want to tell her doctor that does not think that she qualifies for this medicine. She wants to get the medicine without her doctors permission against medical advice.

Getting a second opinion is not “against medical advice.” But you know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeking out weight loss drugs after your doctor advised against it is disordered. If you truly believe you need these drugs and that your doctor is incompetent, get a second opinion or change doctors. The fact that you posed this question here and the chorus of similarly disordered people are guiding you to their suppliers betrays your and their disorders. This smacks of eating disorders, body dysmorphia as well as addictive behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeking out weight loss drugs after your doctor advised against it is disordered. If you truly believe you need these drugs and that your doctor is incompetent, get a second opinion or change doctors. The fact that you posed this question here and the chorus of similarly disordered people are guiding you to their suppliers betrays your and their disorders. This smacks of eating disorders, body dysmorphia as well as addictive behavior.

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oh, ffs, you are not going to die if your @$$ remains 3 inches larger than you prefer because you can't reign in your consumption of extraneous calories.

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Anonymous wrote:You do not need her permission. Your primary care doctor is not a god or your boss. I would disclose it because it is good for your doctor to have all of the info, but I would also switch docs if she gave me a hard time.

But as a society, we choose drugs that have a professional gatekeeper for a reason.

It is not candy.

And when I am not being treated as I deem to be correct, I go elsewhere. Last year, my child had pneumonia. Was given an antibiotic and it recovered almost immediately after taking it. Fever was gone in 36 hours. So obviously bacterial. I became sick right after. Was sick for 10 days. Finally saw my dr. Refused to give me an antibiotic. Stayed sick for 3 more days. Did an online thing for an antibiotic. Felt better within 24 hours. Doctors do not always get it right.

So save money and treat yourself.

Good luck with that.

(You do understand your approach borders on RFK’s though. Experts be damned, this is what I think.)

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Anonymous wrote:You do not need her permission. Your primary care doctor is not a god or your boss. I would disclose it because it is good for your doctor to have all of the info, but I would also switch docs if she gave me a hard time.

But as a society, we choose drugs that have a professional gatekeeper for a reason.

It is not candy.

And when I am not being treated as I deem to be correct, I go elsewhere. Last year, my child had pneumonia. Was given an antibiotic and it recovered almost immediately after taking it. Fever was gone in 36 hours. So obviously bacterial. I became sick right after. Was sick for 10 days. Finally saw my dr. Refused to give me an antibiotic. Stayed sick for 3 more days. Did an online thing for an antibiotic. Felt better within 24 hours. Doctors do not always get it right.

So save money and treat yourself.

Good luck with that.

(You do understand your approach borders on RFK’s though. Experts be damned, this is what I think.)

Np- online consults are usually the same cost, with actual doctors. This person saw a doctor virtually. After 10 days of same symptom as a dc with pneumonia, it’s strange the original doc would not prescribe something. Nothing at all RFK-like about seeing a second doctor…

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Anonymous wrote:Seeking out weight loss drugs after your doctor advised against it is disordered. If you truly believe you need these drugs and that your doctor is incompetent, get a second opinion or change doctors. The fact that you posed this question here and the chorus of similarly disordered people are guiding you to their suppliers betrays your and their disorders. This smacks of eating disorders, body dysmorphia as well as addictive behavior.

This message brought to you by United Heakthcare.

oh, ffs, you are not going to die if your @$$ remains 3 inches larger than you prefer because you can't reign in your consumption of extraneous calories.

LOL the United Healthcare shill is spinning out.

And we pay insurance big bucks to cover healthcare, not just prevent us from dying tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

This is OP. I appreciate all perspectives here.

I want to add that the reason my doctor thinks it’s important for me to lose some weight is because I have high blood pressure and have been taking BP medication for the past 5 years to manage it. She thinks if I can get the weight off it will naturally lower my BP and maybe I can come off the medication, or at least not need to increase the dosage as I age.

I have lost some weight before but I always gain it back because I have to eat very little or I can’t maintain it. I am too hungry so I eat more and gain it back. It’s literally the definition of yo-yo dieting.

So my thought is that I can either try something different to see if it helps, or not lose the weight and keep it off long term and deal with my high BP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I appreciate all perspectives here.

I want to add that the reason my doctor thinks it’s important for me to lose some weight is because I have high blood pressure and have been taking BP medication for the past 5 years to manage it. She thinks if I can get the weight off it will naturally lower my BP and maybe I can come off the medication, or at least not need to increase the dosage as I age.

I have lost some weight before but I always gain it back because I have to eat very little or I can’t maintain it. I am too hungry so I eat more and gain it back. It’s literally the definition of yo-yo dieting.

So my thought is that I can either try something different to see if it helps, or not lose the weight and keep it off long term and deal with my high BP.

Before glps, people went to med spas for B12 injections to lose weight. There must be some options between continuing to yoyo and taking a lifelong unstudied (in your population) drug against your doctor's advice.