Anonymous wrote:Are you in Canada or in the US? If you're in the US you want a US doctor that will send scripts to Canadian pharmacies in BC or Manitoba that will ship to US. Push Health is a popular one, so is Alpha. You can also get a paper prescription from your PCP.

Anyway, Canada's really cracked down on sending Ozempic to patients in the US so I'm not sure if you can find a pharmacy that will fill it for you at this point.

I believe BC's Government has stopped shipping Ozempic to the US altogether. Other provinces are worrying about their own needs first.

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Anonymous wrote:You can get compounded semaglutide from most medspas now.

Name one.

NP—here is one

https://estarmedspa.com/what-you-should-know-about-semaglutide-in-olney-maryland-for-weight-loss/

BUT….this is compounded semaglutide. It is not generic Ozempic/Wegovy. Generics you can buy with a script from CVS. The pharmacy at CVS does not carry compounded semaglutide.

A compound pharmacy makes the medication using the ingredients—like a baker would make a cake. Compounds are not regulated by the FDA so you really don’t know what exactly you are injecting into yourself when you buy a compound. You are trusting the compounding pharmacy but there is no oversight.

Semaglutide is still under patent. Novo Norodisk isn’t selling semaglutide as an ingredient to compounding pharmacies. So you have to ask where are these compounding pharmacies buying their semaglutide and what exactly is in it.

Anonymous wrote:You can get compounded semaglutide from most medspas now.

Name one.

You can get compounded semaglutide from most medspas now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does such a service exist?

If you are dangerously overweight a proper physician will assist you with this. If you need to drop ten or twenty pounds, shame on you. People need these medicines. Spend less time keyboarding and go for a walk.

It's NOT just people looking for vanity weight loss that need to access medication this way. Not everyone has access to a proper physician or insurance that will cover weight loss medications. I was dangerously obese and the only way I could afford Ozempic was to order it from Canada. Thankfully I was able to enroll in insurance that covers it now but it can be very hard to get these medicines covered by insurance even if you truly need it. Even if you're diabetic. And not every PCP is willing to send scripts to Canada or issue a paper prescription so often these pill mill telehealth doctors are the only option.

I'm surprised with unwillingness or lack of interest among many PCP to help people lose weight. Most tell you to do weight watchers or keto but don't seem to be up to date with the research on weight loss, unwilling to prescribe a medication for weight loss even though they will prescribe medication for hypertension, elevated cholesterol, etc. which are often a result of being overweight. I had to go out and proactively find a physician who can help me with my weight. The provider doesn't take insurance so I go to one doctor for weight issues and then my PCP who takes insurance for the other medical conditions. My PCP is impressed with I've lost weight, that my blood pressure has come up, and that my labs look so much better than before. So he was willing to prescribe 3-4 meds for the complications of obesity but nothing for the weight. this does not make sense.

afford...not avoid

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Anonymous wrote:NO and FYI ALL the weight will come back once you stop these medications and you are all making a shortage for those people who NEED this medication!!!

Agree!!! Obesity is a disease and people NEED this medication.

They should be monitored by a health professional and not ordering meds from a foreign country if they are unable to maintain a healthy weight with lifestyle cht.

Many people have scripts from doctors and are being monitored. However, they are unable to avoid this medication. Do you begrudge people with other diseases that fill scripts overseas due to costs in America?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO and FYI ALL the weight will come back once you stop these medications and you are all making a shortage for those people who NEED this medication!!!

Agree!!! Obesity is a disease and people NEED this medication.

They should be monitored by a health professional and not ordering meds from a foreign country if they are unable to maintain a healthy weight with lifestyle cht.

Anonymous wrote:NO and FYI ALL the weight will come back once you stop these medications and you are all making a shortage for those people who NEED this medication!!!

Agree!!! Obesity is a disease and people NEED this medication.

NO and FYI ALL the weight will come back once you stop these medications and you are all making a shortage for those people who NEED this medication!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does such a service exist?

If you are dangerously overweight a proper physician will assist you with this. If you need to drop ten or twenty pounds, shame on you. People need these medicines. Spend less time keyboarding and go for a walk.

It's NOT just people looking for vanity weight loss that need to access medication this way. Not everyone has access to a proper physician or insurance that will cover weight loss medications. I was dangerously obese and the only way I could afford Ozempic was to order it from Canada. Thankfully I was able to enroll in insurance that covers it now but it can be very hard to get these medicines covered by insurance even if you truly need it. Even if you're diabetic. And not every PCP is willing to send scripts to Canada or issue a paper prescription so often these pill mill telehealth doctors are the only option.

Are you in Canada or in the US? If you're in the US you want a US doctor that will send scripts to Canadian pharmacies in BC or Manitoba that will ship to US. Push Health is a popular one, so is Alpha. You can also get a paper prescription from your PCP.

Anyway, Canada's really cracked down on sending Ozempic to patients in the US so I'm not sure if you can find a pharmacy that will fill it for you at this point.

Anonymous wrote:Does such a service exist?

If you are dangerously overweight a proper physician will assist you with this. If you need to drop ten or twenty pounds, shame on you. People need these medicines. Spend less time keyboarding and go for a walk.

Doesn't the Canadian doctor need to be licensed not only in the US but in the state where the patient is located?

Does such a service exist?