all the threads on weight loss medication

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Anonymous wrote:They gained ALL the weight back once they stop taking the meds.

+1000 so I'm not sure why they want to waste their money like that! Makes no sense.

1) it's not true. Stop with the hyperbole and post some credible studies of most of people gaining weight back. Most stay on a maintenance dose for this reason.

2) We keep trying because we want to get/stay healthy. if you think that's a waste of money, that says a lot about your state of mind.

It’s not getting or staying healthy to be on any medicine for a lifetime. It’s a cheat.

Okay, don’t do it! You’re fine. This isn’t hurting you.

Exactly. I guess wearing glasses your whole life is cheating so you can see? Or wearing a hearing aid cheating to hear? GTFOH with that nonsense.

I think u need to find some better comparisons. No amount of will power is going to make someone’s eyesight or hearing better without some external mechanism. As opposed to weight loss, a person can still be doing something to lose weight. In fact, one must also change their lifestyle even when on these weight loss drugs if they want the weight loss to be permanent.

If someone is taking them purely for weight loss (like presumably some celebrities), then it is cheating. If someone is taking them bc they alrdy have diabetes or are pre diabetic or are still obese despite all efforts, that is not cheating.

And if someone is taking them bc they need to and it is medically prescribed, and they don’t change their eating and exercise regiment, then that’s really cheating. I’m assuming that few are doing this, at least I’d like to think so.

Spoken by someone who doesn't understand that obesity is a DISEASE that willpower can't beat. Why are you so upset that others can get healthy with these meds? How does it affect you in any way, shape, or form? If you are a diabetic who cannot get the meds you need, you get to be mad at those who are using them and don't need it, just want it for vanity. But if there were enough for everyone, why would you care that some people need it and some want it for vanity?

Because vanity kills. Diet drugs has a terrible history in the US. I highly doubt wide availability of these drugs would be good for people with eating disorders or even those who don’t have one and should not even be thinking abt losing weight.

Obesity also kills. This particular diet drug has been around, and has been used successfully, for more than a decade by diabetics. So people with eating disorders shouldn't take it - that really isn't relevant, as no one who isn't obese should take it either. Please don't let the vanity seekers effect your thoughts on this drug for those who truly need it

[Anonymous]

A doctor may write the prescription but it needs to be approved by insurance. It’s for uncontrolled diabetes. Otherwise, it’s about $1K per month. How are people getting this medication for weight loss covered by insurance if they are not diabetics? Are you getting insurance to cover this?

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Ozempic is for diabetes. Wegovy, the exact same medication, is for weight loss. Most insurances do not cover Wegovy (some do), but there is a coupon from the manufacturer that lasts for a period of time that makes it $25 per month instead of $800 or $1000

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Anonymous wrote:I'm slightly chubby and on it but am about to get off since my savings card expires this month. I will go from paying $25 to $800 a month, which it's not worth. I don't feel great on it, so it's for the best. I lost 20 of the 40 lbs I need to lose over the past 5 months and will up my exercise this summer to try to keep the momentum going. We'll see.

I'm jealous. How did you get a savings card that was valid if insurance wouldn't cover you?

It was available to anyone whose insurance wouldn't cover it back in November when my doctor prescribed it. I got the savings card the first week of Nov, then Eli Lilly changed it two weeks later to be much less generous.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm slightly chubby and on it but am about to get off since my savings card expires this month. I will go from paying $25 to $800 a month, which it's not worth. I don't feel great on it, so it's for the best. I lost 20 of the 40 lbs I need to lose over the past 5 months and will up my exercise this summer to try to keep the momentum going. We'll see.

I'm jealous. How did you get a savings card that was valid if insurance wouldn't cover you?

It was available to anyone whose insurance wouldn't cover it back in November when my doctor prescribed it. I got the savings card the first week of Nov, then Eli Lilly changed it two weeks later to be much less generous.

With the new savings card you also have to be a liar and say you have diabetes, but apparently that’s no problem for these people.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm slightly chubby and on it but am about to get off since my savings card expires this month. I will go from paying $25 to $800 a month, which it's not worth. I don't feel great on it, so it's for the best. I lost 20 of the 40 lbs I need to lose over the past 5 months and will up my exercise this summer to try to keep the momentum going. We'll see.

Good, I’m happy your coupon is ending. I’m a diabetic and now I might actually be able to get Mounjaro without all of the $25 coupon people.

I hope you never find it now. Your health issues don't supersede anyone else's.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm slightly chubby and on it but am about to get off since my savings card expires this month. I will go from paying $25 to $800 a month, which it's not worth. I don't feel great on it, so it's for the best. I lost 20 of the 40 lbs I need to lose over the past 5 months and will up my exercise this summer to try to keep the momentum going. We'll see.

Good, I’m happy your coupon is ending. I’m a diabetic and now I might actually be able to get Mounjaro without all of the $25 coupon people.

I hope you never find it now. Your health issues don't supersede anyone else's.

I am the chubby coupon holder. I have very severe health issues too that are so specific to me that I might identify myself if I elaborate. So I won't. It was a specialist who prescribed it for me as part of an aggressive broad approach to getting me healthier. I don't understand why folks make the worst assumptions about people all the time on here.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm slightly chubby and on it but am about to get off since my savings card expires this month. I will go from paying $25 to $800 a month, which it's not worth. I don't feel great on it, so it's for the best. I lost 20 of the 40 lbs I need to lose over the past 5 months and will up my exercise this summer to try to keep the momentum going. We'll see.

Good, I’m happy your coupon is ending. I’m a diabetic and now I might actually be able to get Mounjaro without all of the $25 coupon people.

I hope you never find it now. Your health issues don't supersede anyone else's.

I am the chubby coupon holder. I have very severe health issues too that are so specific to me that I might identify myself if I elaborate. So I won't. It was a specialist who prescribed it for me as part of an aggressive broad approach to getting me healthier. I don't understand why folks make the worst assumptions about people all the time on here.

I don't either. Apparently, diabetics have a right to healthcare but the rest of us don't. They can f off.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm jealous. I just wanna lose 10-15 pounds.
It must be more widely distributed than I realize.

You are definitely not going to get a Rx for it with 10-15lbs to lose.

So many obese people are on it. Not so many slightly chubby people.

Not true at all. I have several friends on it to lose their baby weight. There are lots of telehealth doctors who will write the scripts for anyone who wants to pay OOP for the meds.

I am on Mounjaro because I am obese and have type II diabetes. My doctor fought with my insurance to get it covered. I kept it secret for a while before disclosing it to my close girlfriends and was floored with 2 of them told me they were on meds, too. They are both skinny with only ~20 lbs of baby weight or covid weight gain to lose. Both pay out of pocket each month.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm jealous. I just wanna lose 10-15 pounds.
It must be more widely distributed than I realize.

You are definitely not going to get a Rx for it with 10-15lbs to lose.

So many obese people are on it. Not so many slightly chubby people.

Not true at all. I have several friends on it to lose their baby weight. There are lots of telehealth doctors who will write the scripts for anyone who wants to pay OOP for the meds.

I am on Mounjaro because I am obese and have type II diabetes. My doctor fought with my insurance to get it covered. I kept it secret for a while before disclosing it to my close girlfriends and was floored with 2 of them told me they were on meds, too. They are both skinny with only ~20 lbs of baby weight or covid weight gain to lose. Both pay out of pocket each month.

I am the poster who said it's cheating. People who want these medicines to lose weight and for no other reason are cheating by using it. If you have diabetes then OK, but just as a form to lose weight (like most celebrities who have lost unhealthy amounts recently), are cheating.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm jealous. I just wanna lose 10-15 pounds.
It must be more widely distributed than I realize.

You are definitely not going to get a Rx for it with 10-15lbs to lose.

So many obese people are on it. Not so many slightly chubby people.

Not true at all. I have several friends on it to lose their baby weight. There are lots of telehealth doctors who will write the scripts for anyone who wants to pay OOP for the meds.

I am on Mounjaro because I am obese and have type II diabetes. My doctor fought with my insurance to get it covered. I kept it secret for a while before disclosing it to my close girlfriends and was floored with 2 of them told me they were on meds, too. They are both skinny with only ~20 lbs of baby weight or covid weight gain to lose. Both pay out of pocket each month.

I am the poster who said it's cheating. People who want these medicines to lose weight and for no other reason are cheating by using it. If you have diabetes then OK, but just as a form to lose weight (like most celebrities who have lost unhealthy amounts recently), are cheating.

You sound like a five year old who doesn’t know what words mean. It’s not a game or a competition. One cannot cheat at pursuing health.

[Anonymous]

I'm so jealous too when I read these threads. I feel like I spend so much time thinking about food, trying not to eat too much food, then feeling bad because I ate too much food. Or trying not to drink too much alcohol/feeling bad that I drank too much alcohol.

I hope some day it will be possible for healthy-weight people to get it to moderate appetite/drinking and not have to deal with the "food noise."

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Anonymous wrote:I'm jealous. I just wanna lose 10-15 pounds.
It must be more widely distributed than I realize.

You are definitely not going to get a Rx for it with 10-15lbs to lose.

So many obese people are on it. Not so many slightly chubby people.

Not true at all. I have several friends on it to lose their baby weight. There are lots of telehealth doctors who will write the scripts for anyone who wants to pay OOP for the meds.

I am on Mounjaro because I am obese and have type II diabetes. My doctor fought with my insurance to get it covered. I kept it secret for a while before disclosing it to my close girlfriends and was floored with 2 of them told me they were on meds, too. They are both skinny with only ~20 lbs of baby weight or covid weight gain to lose. Both pay out of pocket each month.

I am the poster who said it's cheating. People who want these medicines to lose weight and for no other reason are cheating by using it. If you have diabetes then OK, but just as a form to lose weight (like most celebrities who have lost unhealthy amounts recently), are cheating.

You repeating that won't make it any more true. They are aids just like weights when you're lifting weights or a bike when you want to bike for exercise. You are oddly obsessed with this concept that people who are trying to get healthy are cheating. Are you on the spectrum?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I'm jealous. I just wanna lose 10-15 pounds.
It must be more widely distributed than I realize.

You are definitely not going to get a Rx for it with 10-15lbs to lose.

So many obese people are on it. Not so many slightly chubby people.

Not true at all. I have several friends on it to lose their baby weight. There are lots of telehealth doctors who will write the scripts for anyone who wants to pay OOP for the meds.

I am on Mounjaro because I am obese and have type II diabetes. My doctor fought with my insurance to get it covered. I kept it secret for a while before disclosing it to my close girlfriends and was floored with 2 of them told me they were on meds, too. They are both skinny with only ~20 lbs of baby weight or covid weight gain to lose. Both pay out of pocket each month.

I am the poster who said it's cheating. People who want these medicines to lose weight and for no other reason are cheating by using it. If you have diabetes then OK, but just as a form to lose weight (like most celebrities who have lost unhealthy amounts recently), are cheating.

You sound like a five year old who doesn’t know what words mean. It’s not a game or a competition. One cannot cheat at pursuing health.

You are a troll. You repeatedly focus on the use of “cheat” as if you’re triggered or trying to instigate/derail legitimate discussion and points. It’s not hard to distinguish between someone using it because they need it (eg have diabetes) and someone who’s using it to lose “baby fat” as in PP’s example of her friends who are paying out of pocket for it just to lose a little bit of weight. The latter is not pursuing health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm jealous. I just wanna lose 10-15 pounds.
It must be more widely distributed than I realize.

You are definitely not going to get a Rx for it with 10-15lbs to lose.

So many obese people are on it. Not so many slightly chubby people.

Not true at all. I have several friends on it to lose their baby weight. There are lots of telehealth doctors who will write the scripts for anyone who wants to pay OOP for the meds.

I am on Mounjaro because I am obese and have type II diabetes. My doctor fought with my insurance to get it covered. I kept it secret for a while before disclosing it to my close girlfriends and was floored with 2 of them told me they were on meds, too. They are both skinny with only ~20 lbs of baby weight or covid weight gain to lose. Both pay out of pocket each month.

I am the poster who said it's cheating. People who want these medicines to lose weight and for no other reason are cheating by using it. If you have diabetes then OK, but just as a form to lose weight (like most celebrities who have lost unhealthy amounts recently), are cheating.

You repeating that won't make it any more true. They are aids just like weights when you're lifting weights or a bike when you want to bike for exercise. You are oddly obsessed with this concept that people who are trying to get healthy are cheating. Are you on the spectrum?

So are you saying that ppl without underlying medical conditions taking these drugs to lose 5-10 lbs to be as skinny as some celebrities are “trying to get healthy”?