Anonymous wrote:Yeah, in our town, there are lots of aesthetic skin care places that have started offering weight loss drugs, and I'm pretty sure it's compounded semaglutide or what have you. It would be interesting to see the pharma companies lose their monopoly and perhaps medical providers lose their monopoly as well.

It was bound to happen: dermatologists are being replaced by Curology and co for acne, primary care doctors for simple urgent stuff like antibiotics, and yes, medical spas for semaglutide. When care is so expensive and hard to access, people just resort to what's easier and cheaper, unsurprisingly.

Yeah, in our town, there are lots of aesthetic skin care places that have started offering weight loss drugs, and I'm pretty sure it's compounded semaglutide or what have you. It would be interesting to see the pharma companies lose their monopoly and perhaps medical providers lose their monopoly as well.

It is so wonderful that Eli Lilly is making a stand for what is right. Gosh, those wonderful pharmaceutical companies! Always having everyone's best interests at heart.

Lol.

I think they are more pissed about compound pharmacies bc they cannot profit off those. Oh well.

I understand what Eli Lilly is saying. However, I don't know how people are getting actual prescriptions for vanity use. I have actual comorbidities and I had to go through a pre-approval process. They don't just hand this out.

A lot of people are using them to lose 15-20 pounds to get back to their most attractive weights of their 20s without the daily mental anguish of calorie restriction. How are they getting prescriptions though?

Anonymous wrote:Shame on people who allow themselves to get obese and then expect an expensive drug to fix it. And shame on insurance companies and for profit drug manufacturers for driving up the price of drugs that are cheaper in almost every other country. See how that works?

Obesity is not a moral issue, poster. There are complex systems at work which drive obesity in some people and not in others, and research has well established that it isn't because thinner people are morally superior.

I don't disagree with your comments on the unfair pricing practices of drug manufacturers.

But I'm disgusted by all the DCUM posters wanting to get on weight loss drugs to lose 15-20 pounds when they are already in normal weight range. That kind of vanity use of the drugs is preventing people with diabetes and obesity from getting them because of resulting drug shortages. That's shameful.

Shame on people who allow themselves to get obese and then expect an expensive drug to fix it. And shame on insurance companies and for profit drug manufacturers for driving up the price of drugs that are cheaper in almost every other country. See how that works?

Lilly speaks out:



Shame on the vanity users hogging drugs meant to treat obesity.