Can anyone request a GLP-1 from their physician?

[Anonymous]

Why isn’t everybody allowed to just take these? Haven’t they been shown to reduce cancer, improve fertility and a million other things? I’m not on it btw.

[Anonymous]

I have found a lot of GPs and other non-specialists are very negative about these drugs because they think it'sa fad. I see a weight loss specialist (bariatric surgeon) who is very positive about them but I get an earful from my GYN who thinks exercise fixes everything.

OP, look up the prescribing criteria. It's obese, or overweight plus another factor like pre-diabetes. Ask for bloodwork to start. But also, get on a wait list for an actual weight loss doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why isn’t everybody allowed to just take these? Haven’t they been shown to reduce cancer, improve fertility and a million other things? I’m not on it btw.

Cost. There's no generic yet.

[Anonymous]

My GP prescribes (was overweight with high blood pressure and borderline cholesterol levels). That was 3 years ago. 50 pounds gone and all the numbers down to normal (BMI, blood pressure, and cholesterol). Went off for 6 months and the weight started to come back (when BMI got to 27 I went back on the injection). Now staying at low dose every week - don't care if it's forever, I don't have and never had any of the bad side effects other people have, I just keep the weight off. And my insurance fully covers the cost, I've never paid for the injections

[Anonymous]

Some GP’s aren’t going to prescribe it if they don’t think you really need it because there are also downsides- a horrible side effect being gastroparesis which has no cure, potential to increase kidney or thyroid cancer, etc.