Wegovy/Saxenda for weight loss?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

I'm a PP with somewhat similar stats to yours. My PCP was useless for my weight and related issues. A year after I'd asked her about trying one of these medications, I had made no progress and was miserable, so I switched to a different provider in the same practice, who prescribed it right away. That said, as I posted earlier in the thread, I've been on Ozempic for 3 months now, am at 1mg, and have lost no weight. I don't feel any different at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

Yes, my H's PCP prescribed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

I'm a PP with somewhat similar stats to yours. My PCP was useless for my weight and related issues. A year after I'd asked her about trying one of these medications, I had made no progress and was miserable, so I switched to a different provider in the same practice, who prescribed it right away. That said, as I posted earlier in the thread, I've been on Ozempic for 3 months now, am at 1mg, and have lost no weight. I don't feel any different at all.

I was on Wegovy for 6 months - lost no weight except for the two 2 day stinks of being sick to my stomach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

You are most definitely in the risk range for diabetes with that 5.9. Have you told her that you want to try Ozempic? That’s what I did with my PCP-I advocated for myself. She thought it was a great idea. You are the perfect candidate for it. And my. insurance covers it. Some insurance makes you try metformin first. My PCP said that if they insisted on that, she’d write a script for metformin, have me “take it” and then “report” really bad stomach issues. The move to Ozempic would then be justified. Since it was approved right away, I didn’t have to do that. I pay $25 a month and have lost almost 25 lbs.

If you go and specifically ask for Ozempic, and she refuses, another avenue is to ask for a referral to an endocrinologist.

Thank you very much. I don’t need a referral and might skip ahead to the endocrinologist anyway—I’d love to have all my hormones checked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

I'm a PP with somewhat similar stats to yours. My PCP was useless for my weight and related issues. A year after I'd asked her about trying one of these medications, I had made no progress and was miserable, so I switched to a different provider in the same practice, who prescribed it right away. That said, as I posted earlier in the thread, I've been on Ozempic for 3 months now, am at 1mg, and have lost no weight. I don't feel any different at all.

Ugh. I’m sorry—that must be very frustrating. I think that’s why maybe I should go the endocrinologist route to get the meds to make sure something else isn’t holding my body back. (I have fasting insulin resistance, so I know that isn’t helping things.) I don’t mind doing the low carb thing; I just need a little help to get me started so I can exercise without being in extreme pain, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

I'm a PP with somewhat similar stats to yours. My PCP was useless for my weight and related issues. A year after I'd asked her about trying one of these medications, I had made no progress and was miserable, so I switched to a different provider in the same practice, who prescribed it right away. That said, as I posted earlier in the thread, I've been on Ozempic for 3 months now, am at 1mg, and have lost no weight. I don't feel any different at all.

Ugh. I’m sorry—that must be very frustrating. I think that’s why maybe I should go the endocrinologist route to get the meds to make sure something else isn’t holding my body back. (I have fasting insulin resistance, so I know that isn’t helping things.) I don’t mind doing the low carb thing; I just need a little help to get me started so I can exercise without being in extreme pain, too.

Please do this. I am still having intense side effects from Wegovy (lost no weight) three months after stopping it. It is awful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone on Mounjaro? I just started this week.

I'm on it. Second week on the 15mg.

I was on Wegovy for 8mo. Ended at 2.4mg then transitioned to Mounjaro. Dr wouldn’t start me higher than the starting dose so I started at 2.5mg.
Now Im at 5.0mg and so far nothing is happening. Im hoping that when I move to 7.5mg things will move again.

I just started Mounjaro, took my second shot of 2.5 yesterday. Lost 2 pounds the first week. My doctor has me on 2.5 for a month, then 5 for a month and then 7.5

No major side effects yet

[Anonymous]

So this thread's timing is interesting. My doc just suggested saxenda to me. I would say I've only got 20-30 lbs to lose (perimenopausal, HBP controlled with other meds). When I type in my details to the saxenda website it says that my insurance covers it, but it still costs about $1400 to me. I have no idea if that is an annual, monthly, weekly, or whatever amount.

Earlier in this thread, people talked about getting meds from Canada (with an rx). Is anyone still doing this? Those posts were from last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

I'm a PP with somewhat similar stats to yours. My PCP was useless for my weight and related issues. A year after I'd asked her about trying one of these medications, I had made no progress and was miserable, so I switched to a different provider in the same practice, who prescribed it right away. That said, as I posted earlier in the thread, I've been on Ozempic for 3 months now, am at 1mg, and have lost no weight. I don't feel any different at all.

Ugh. I’m sorry—that must be very frustrating. I think that’s why maybe I should go the endocrinologist route to get the meds to make sure something else isn’t holding my body back. (I have fasting insulin resistance, so I know that isn’t helping things.) I don’t mind doing the low carb thing; I just need a little help to get me started so I can exercise without being in extreme pain, too.

Please do this. I am still having intense side effects from Wegovy (lost no weight) three months after stopping it. It is awful.

What are your intense side affects?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you just seeing your family doctors to get prescribed these medications? I am STRUGGLING. My PCP is absolutely no help. She offers no criticism and no solutions. I am 47, BMI 42, A1C =5.9%, weight is 263, I have high cholesterol, normal BP and RA, which makes exercising—even just walking—very painful. How are people with BMIs under 27 getting these meds—what am I doing wrong? Are your doctors taking new patients?

I'm a PP with somewhat similar stats to yours. My PCP was useless for my weight and related issues. A year after I'd asked her about trying one of these medications, I had made no progress and was miserable, so I switched to a different provider in the same practice, who prescribed it right away. That said, as I posted earlier in the thread, I've been on Ozempic for 3 months now, am at 1mg, and have lost no weight. I don't feel any different at all.

Ugh. I’m sorry—that must be very frustrating. I think that’s why maybe I should go the endocrinologist route to get the meds to make sure something else isn’t holding my body back. (I have fasting insulin resistance, so I know that isn’t helping things.) I don’t mind doing the low carb thing; I just need a little help to get me started so I can exercise without being in extreme pain, too.

Please do this. I am still having intense side effects from Wegovy (lost no weight) three months after stopping it. It is awful.

What are your intense side affects?

Loss of income from pyramid scheme of weight loss shakes.

[Anonymous]

Well, I went through my PCP to get a referral for an endocrinologist—called the endocrinologist for my fasting insulin resistance and they don’t see patients for that!

What next? One of those weight loss centers? I don’t want phentermine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I went through my PCP to get a referral for an endocrinologist—called the endocrinologist for my fasting insulin resistance and they don’t see patients for that!

What next? One of those weight loss centers? I don’t want phentermine.

Your PCP won’t prescribe anything? Wegovy or Mounjaro?

[Anonymous]

Interesting article on how it also might help with alcohol use disorder:

https://www.insider.com/semaglutide-alcohol-addiction-alcoholism-treatment-weight-loss-drug-2022-10

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I went through my PCP to get a referral for an endocrinologist—called the endocrinologist for my fasting insulin resistance and they don’t see patients for that!

What next? One of those weight loss centers? I don’t want phentermine.

Your PCP won’t prescribe anything? Wegovy or Mounjaro?

They like me plump, I guess?! When I had my televisit I stressed that my main reason for seeking a referral for the endocrinologist was for weighloss…that I have fasting insulin resistance and that losing weight has been a frustrating uphill battle. She certainly did not offer any solutions; instead she wondered how to word the referral so that I would not get turned away…which I did anyway.

Off to Google weightloss centers AND new PCPs. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I went through my PCP to get a referral for an endocrinologist—called the endocrinologist for my fasting insulin resistance and they don’t see patients for that!

What next? One of those weight loss centers? I don’t want phentermine.

Your PCP won’t prescribe anything? Wegovy or Mounjaro?

They like me plump, I guess?! When I had my televisit I stressed that my main reason for seeking a referral for the endocrinologist was for weighloss…that I have fasting insulin resistance and that losing weight has been a frustrating uphill battle. She certainly did not offer any solutions; instead she wondered how to word the referral so that I would not get turned away…which I did anyway.

Off to Google weightloss centers AND new PCPs. LOL

My PCP brought it up before I could even ask and told me about the savings card (coupon) for it. Try asking your PCP if anyone in the practice has patients on Mounjaro or Wegovy.

You can also use telehealth providers. My FB group recommends Alpha.