No insurance for semaglutide

[Anonymous]

You can order compounded zepbound or semaglutide and it arrives at your door within days. It’s not too expensive, all things considered.

[Anonymous]

There are substantial risks to using compounded weight loss drugs according to everything I’ve been reading.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/is-it-safe-to-use-compounded-semaglutide-and-tirzepatide-for-weight-loss/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20FDA%2C%20compounded,people%20who%20take%20compounded%20semaglutide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are substantial risks to using compounded weight loss drugs according to everything I’ve been reading.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/is-it-safe-to-use-compounded-semaglutide-and-tirzepatide-for-weight-loss/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20FDA%2C%20compounded,people%20who%20take%20compounded%20semaglutide.

Some people are buying shady stuff from china. There are reputable us compound pharmacies doctors order from. Of course that doesn’t enrich big pharma.

[Anonymous]

I guess you’ll just have to stay fat.

[Anonymous]

They keep the compounding process kind of shady and scary on purpose, to make people wary of using it.

Compounding is totally normal and legit, but I find navigating the whole thing too stressful and scary so I just pay for it. Eventually it will be cheap. When Prozac first came out, it was expensive.

[Anonymous]

You won't be able to get it, though. I would just go the route of going to a compounding pharmacy

[Anonymous]

My insurance plan does not cover wegovy or ozempic or contrave, regardless of being diabetic or not.

My GP suggested taking oral/sublingual semaglutide. She said she has patients in similar insurance situation that have had good success on it. It is like $150 a month, so not expensive out of pocket and if you have an HSA I would think you could just pay for it like nay other prescription.
She also has it compounded from a local pharmacy that she trusts and you are able to adjust the injection pen and dose to last like 3 months, so it is like $900 and lasts 3 months, so large initial outlay, but averages $300 a month.
You can also ask if your DR has any samples. The day before my recent appointment her office had received ozempic samples and she would have been able to give my 3 months worth to try.
For other health reasons she determined in the end that I need to try metformin first to regulate insulin resistance/ spikes and dips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They keep the compounding process kind of shady and scary on purpose, to make people wary of using it.

Compounding is totally normal and legit, but I find navigating the whole thing too stressful and scary so I just pay for it. Eventually it will be cheap. When Prozac first came out, it was expensive.

I don't doubt this, but also - how do you know this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They keep the compounding process kind of shady and scary on purpose, to make people wary of using it.

Compounding is totally normal and legit, but I find navigating the whole thing too stressful and scary so I just pay for it. Eventually it will be cheap. When Prozac first came out, it was expensive.

I don't doubt this, but also - how do you know this?

DP I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for a company known for it's bullsh&t patent-extended practices. Once it was literally just the scoring on the tablets.

That said, you absolutely don't want to go with a compounding pharmacy trying to mass produce drugs without the right facilities. That is where stuff gets dangerous because of bacteria contamination.

[Anonymous]

Eat less, join a gym. Wow, problem solved.

[Anonymous]

We have now achieved a new level of entitlement for weight loss drugs. Amazing.

If OP has been in big law long enough for the work to be a reason for the weight gain, the cost of this is a rounding error.

Option 1 is pay for it. But when OP washes out and ends up in-house for the postal service, it might be a financial burden.

Option 2 is accept lower compensation, drop out yourself, start living normally and correct whatever behavior lead to the problem in the first place.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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...

[Anonymous]

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.

So, to my understanding, the idea is that the Olympic helps lower the AIC blood sugar and also helps reduce obesity. These two things can help avoid complications of diabetes. So I think the idea is to avoid the devastating complications, which is much cheaper than hospitalizations and things like that.