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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not going to judge how overweight anyone feels they must be to access medicine.  The hassle/cost/stress will keep people from messing around for a few pounds.

Easiest one is Emerge - but do not expect customer service because you are paying through the nose for a peptide pharma has know about for decades and only recently marketed.

Insurance: 1. You call YOUR insurance. QUESTIONS: Is it on their formulary [b]FOR WEIGHT LOSS (Wegovy/Monjaro) [NOT for type 2 diabetes (Ozempic/Zepbound, [/b]you need to evidence A1C to a certain level; Pre-diabetic? No meds for you! You want Oz/Zep? Gotta get diabetic.]. 2. Will YOUR insurance PLAN cover it (might have had to pay for an extra Rider-type add-on when your employer negotiated your coverage) even if it is in their formulary. 2. Does YOUR insurance demand a prior authorization? 3. Does the prior authorization HAVE to show clinical notes that you have tried other medicines and made you sick/had no effect.

Once you sort out your insurance demands you can play the doctor lottery to see if you can get a doc who believes in weight loss meds.

At the George Washington University Medical Faculty Docs - I had a doc that would NOT engage in a conversation about meds. Instead, you get sent to “weight loss hell” - I mean clinic and told “six-month wait to get onto a list to someday get an appointment.” Then - a week or so later, I got a call “we here at weight loss hell have a wait list to get on the list to someday get an appointment - looks like its about a nine month wait - call back every week and see if we are taking names for the list.”

So THAT is why we hop online and talk to a rando doc and get medicine.

Anyone who says “move more, eat less” can go F off. I have lost 30-60#s on and off time after time over my life - I know more about moving more and eating less than you ever will, I promise you.  40% of adults are obese and the number will continue to rise — so you just keep judging away.

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It is the other way around. Zepbound is for weight loss, mounjaro is for diabetes.[/quote]

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