Ozempic-how are you getting it?

[Anonymous]

WW is offering it now. I got a popup announcement in the app today.

[Anonymous]

How much does it cost from WW? And can anyone recommend their weight loss clinic? My doctor will prescribe, but my insurance won’t cover it despite it showing as eligible for coverage on the insurance company website.

[Anonymous]

Most the time people will lose 20 lbs and nobody will notice - but lose 25 lbs and suddenly everyone notices and they think ‘that was so fast’ but it was really 3-4 months-they just didn’t notice.

[Anonymous]

plush doctor. so much easier. try for metabolic disorder dx over weight loss - better chance of long term coverage, cheaper on most federal plans too. i have UHC HDHP and am on mounjaro. costs 100/3 mos.

[Anonymous]

and that's plushcare, not push health, which you can also find a provider on, but i didn't like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are people getting Wegovy? I’ve had a prescription since September, but can never get it filled. I have Kaiser, so need to pay full price. It’s never been available through Kaiser. Is there a pharmacy or med spa that has it?

After I heard about compounded semaglutide I called around and a highly reputable compounding pharmacy informed me they were not dispensing it yet but would be doing so in the near future, so to check back. The second time I called back they were scheduled to roll it out the following week. My doctor's NP had written me a script for Wegovy months earlier but I did not have insurance to cover it. I messaged her with all the necessary prescribing info for compounded semaglutide and the following week I was on it.

That was 10 months ago and since then their supply chain has not once been affected the way shortages have affected the availability of Wegovy. Unsubstantiated reports are that there is plenty of the medication semaglutide available but that it is the fancy injection pens that Novo Nordisk cannot source enough of. Compounded semaglutide is dispensed in vials to be injected with an insulin syringe and it has never been affected by such shortages. Nor has the 'Fitaro' generic for Wegovy which is packaged in a simple prefilled syringe. There is no shortage of it in countries where it is available but the US is not one of those.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are people getting Wegovy? I’ve had a prescription since September, but can never get it filled. I have Kaiser, so need to pay full price. It’s never been available through Kaiser. Is there a pharmacy or med spa that has it?

After I heard about compounded semaglutide I called around and a highly reputable compounding pharmacy informed me they were not dispensing it yet but would be doing so in the near future, so to check back. The second time I called back they were scheduled to roll it out the following week. My doctor's NP had written me a script for Wegovy months earlier but I did not have insurance to cover it. I messaged her with all the necessary prescribing info for compounded semaglutide and the following week I was on it.

That was 10 months ago and since then their supply chain has not once been affected the way shortages have affected the availability of Wegovy. Unsubstantiated reports are that there is plenty of the medication semaglutide available but that it is the fancy injection pens that Novo Nordisk cannot source enough of. Compounded semaglutide is dispensed in vials to be injected with an insulin syringe and it has never been affected by such shortages. Nor has the 'Fitaro' generic for Wegovy which is packaged in a simple prefilled syringe. There is no shortage of it in countries where it is available but the US is not one of those.

Novo nordisk holds the patent not just for ozempic but for semaglutide the active ingredient. The Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients used in compounded preparations must be sourced from an FDA-approved supplier. Because Novo Nordisk, the only FDA-approved supplier of these semaglutide drugs, is currently facing a shortage, any compounded semaglutide is not being sourced from them. Furthermore, they’ve explicitly stated they do not provide semaglutide for compounding. So you have to ask the pharmacy where they are getting their semaglutide because it is NOT from a FDA approved supplier. So there is absolutely no way your pharmacy is reputable. You are taking a huge risk every time you inject yourself because you literally have no guarantee of exactly what you are injecting.

[Anonymous]

Forgot to add. If you are getting ozempic at a compounding pharmacy or spa look at the label to see where it is from. Look at all of these reports from the FDA about violations in compounding pharmacies.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/human-drug-compounding/compounding-inspections-recalls-and-other-actions#Active_Pharmaceuticals

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Anonymous wrote:and that's plushcare, not push health, which you can also find a provider on, but i didn't like.

Why didn’t you like push health? I use it and find it fairly easy and convenient. My insurance won’t cover ozempic so I just pay out of pocket. It helps to use the Canadian pharmacies that seem to have it in stock or will put you on a notification list and it costs less than the pharmacies here if you pay out of pocket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:plush doctor. so much easier. try for metabolic disorder dx over weight loss - better chance of long term coverage, cheaper on most federal plans too. i have UHC HDHP and am on mounjaro. costs 100/3 mos.

Specific doctor?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm buying my peptides directly from china. I feel very confident in the quality of what I'm receiving, as I belong to a testing group that pays for independent testing of the materials - both for purity and amount. I'm buying it for a fraction of the cost (10-bottle kits typically cost less than a month supply from most med-spas). There was recently a NYT article about it, naming one of the big players. I haven't personally had a bad experience with named company, but they are not the best imo either.

Please don't do this! I used to work for a pharmaceutical company in India and we'd get our starting products from China. It was mostly adulterated sh&t. They'll literally poison you if they can get away with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Easy. Have diabetes.

I wish it was that simple. My moms diabetes has landed her in the hospital three times in the last few months and her doctor wants her on Ozempic. But she can’t find it anywhere, at least not with insurance and there’s no way she can afford to pay OOP.

[Anonymous]

I've been working with my doctor on weight loss for a few years. I tried weight watchers, twice. I lost and regained the weight, twice. I tried intermittent fasting and lost it...and regained it. My doctor asked me if I'd go to a weight loss clinic and I finally said yes. I see a dietician and a weight loss doctor there once every 6-8 weeks. That doc prescribes Wegovy. I've been on it since March. I've lost nearly 40 pounds. I was 180, now I'm almost 140. I hope to lose another 10-20. If I need to take it the rest of my life and if my insurance will cover it, I'll do it. On Wegovy, I feel full longer and I don't need to eat a lot to feel full. I also no longer crave large amounts of chocolate, chips and other crap. (I still eat a little bit and that's enough) I do often crave vegetables, which is something I never wanted before.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have more tips about where to find doses of Wegovy? I’m waiting for 1 mg. I’m in McLean and haven’t had luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm buying my peptides directly from china. I feel very confident in the quality of what I'm receiving, as I belong to a testing group that pays for independent testing of the materials - both for purity and amount. I'm buying it for a fraction of the cost (10-bottle kits typically cost less than a month supply from most med-spas). There was recently a NYT article about it, naming one of the big players. I haven't personally had a bad experience with named company, but they are not the best imo either.

If you don’t mind sharing, where are you getting it from?