Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 21:05     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Agree with poster who said get a Primary Care Physician. Mine wrote the rx for Wegovy, I just started the 1.7 doses no side effects and have lost about a pound a week so far (so 12 pounds). Also - my insurance Aetna, covers it - $25 per 4 week supply


How overweight were you to get a prescription?


DP but I have pre-diabetes, a history of gestational diabetes and a family history of type 2. If your a1c is normal idk if they’d prescribe it. But the other big issue is whether your insurance will cover it. Mine, for example, does not because I’m not quite over the diabetes line. But other plans do so you have to check.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 21:03     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Anonymous wrote:It’s definitely not true that any PCP will prescribe these drugs. My PCP, who in the past has given me anything I’ve asked for (nothing crazy like Oxy, but ADHD drugs, etc.), said no to using any of the GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. She just doesn’t think they’re effective unless you take them forever so is categorically against.


I mean literally no weight loss method is effective unless you do it forever.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 20:22     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Anonymous wrote:Agree with poster who said get a Primary Care Physician. Mine wrote the rx for Wegovy, I just started the 1.7 doses no side effects and have lost about a pound a week so far (so 12 pounds). Also - my insurance Aetna, covers it - $25 per 4 week supply


How overweight were you to get a prescription?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 20:04     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
It’s definitely not true that any PCP will prescribe these drugs. My PCP, who in the past has given me anything I’ve asked for (nothing crazy like Oxy, but ADHD drugs, etc.), said no to using any of the GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. She just doesn’t think they’re effective unless you take them forever so is categorically against.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 19:00     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Do you have to have to lose a certain amount of weight for a PCP to write a prescription?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 17:46     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
My brand new PCP was very open to offering me several options of these meds when I asked directly about them. I'd sugest going that route.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 17:37     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Agree with poster who said get a Primary Care Physician. Mine wrote the rx for Wegovy, I just started the 1.7 doses no side effects and have lost about a pound a week so far (so 12 pounds). Also - my insurance Aetna, covers it - $25 per 4 week supply
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 16:46     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Anonymous wrote:I got Mounjaro on here -- https://www.pushhealth.com/

However, the payment situation has changed for that, so it's likely that you will need to pay OOP or you could potentially get semaglutide (generic for ozempic) compounded. Are you in DC?


Maryland.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 16:19     Subject: Re:Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
I don’t think my doctor is a “vanity doctor.” We had my A1C and other blood work as a matter of course. I guess if I were a new patient she might have asked me to work on it other ways but a new doctor can take a history. OP might have a record of A1Cs from somewhere else (I had more of them from gestational diabetes).

I’m fairly certain the online doctors will also send you to a lab for blood work. I would hope they would!
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 16:14     Subject: Re:Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP I think the online things are not a good value. Find a primary care doc. Getting a prescription is easy, getting it covered is not but the online companies don’t have any magic. A primary care doc can prescribe it to you at an annual visit which shouldn’t cost you anything, so why pay a fee to an online doctor? They’re just preying on the sense of scarcity.


Wrong. Many (most?) primary care doctors will not just prescribe a GLP-1. They require testing, trying other weight loss methods/programs, more testing. Sometimes you need to visit a endocrinologist. The wait time to be seen is insane.

There is a sense of scarcity, because many doctors are not comfortable or familiar with GLP1s.

Plus just to get an annual visit to my primary care doctor takes about three months. Then you start the testing process.


Well, the testing is smart. My dad is diabetic and took Ozempic for diabetes. It caused pancreatitis--a not uncommon side effect. At a very minimum, triglycerides should be tested before starting these drugs.


I agree, I just wanted to point out that it's not easy. The process for in person or online takes 6-12 months. That's if you can convince your doctor that you meet the qualifications for the medication.

Of course it may be easier in California, Miami, or NYC where vanity doctors/prescriptions are common.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 15:08     Subject: Re:Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP I think the online things are not a good value. Find a primary care doc. Getting a prescription is easy, getting it covered is not but the online companies don’t have any magic. A primary care doc can prescribe it to you at an annual visit which shouldn’t cost you anything, so why pay a fee to an online doctor? They’re just preying on the sense of scarcity.


Wrong. Many (most?) primary care doctors will not just prescribe a GLP-1. They require testing, trying other weight loss methods/programs, more testing. Sometimes you need to visit a endocrinologist. The wait time to be seen is insane.

There is a sense of scarcity, because many doctors are not comfortable or familiar with GLP1s.

Plus just to get an annual visit to my primary care doctor takes about three months. Then you start the testing process.


Well, the testing is smart. My dad is diabetic and took Ozempic for diabetes. It caused pancreatitis--a not uncommon side effect. At a very minimum, triglycerides should be tested before starting these drugs.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 15:04     Subject: Re:Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
Anonymous wrote:OP I think the online things are not a good value. Find a primary care doc. Getting a prescription is easy, getting it covered is not but the online companies don’t have any magic. A primary care doc can prescribe it to you at an annual visit which shouldn’t cost you anything, so why pay a fee to an online doctor? They’re just preying on the sense of scarcity.


Wrong. Many (most?) primary care doctors will not just prescribe a GLP-1. They require testing, trying other weight loss methods/programs, more testing. Sometimes you need to visit a endocrinologist. The wait time to be seen is insane.

There is a sense of scarcity, because many doctors are not comfortable or familiar with GLP1s.

Plus just to get an annual visit to my primary care doctor takes about three months. Then you start the testing process.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 15:00     Subject: Re:Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
OP I think the online things are not a good value. Find a primary care doc. Getting a prescription is easy, getting it covered is not but the online companies don’t have any magic. A primary care doc can prescribe it to you at an annual visit which shouldn’t cost you anything, so why pay a fee to an online doctor? They’re just preying on the sense of scarcity.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 14:59     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
I got Mounjaro on here -- https://www.pushhealth.com/

However, the payment situation has changed for that, so it's likely that you will need to pay OOP or you could potentially get semaglutide (generic for ozempic) compounded. Are you in DC?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2023 14:56     Subject: Where did you get weight loss drugs online?
I don’t currently have a primary care dr, but am overweight and want to try one of the weight loss drugs like Ozempic that everyone seems to be taking. If you got a weight loss drug from an online provider, how did you do it?