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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?  :lol: 
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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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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