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Weight loss jabs what am I missing

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Givemethesun · 14/08/2025 17:00

I’m probably behind on the news given young dc but I keep seeing threads and news articles on weight loss jabs. Are these becoming the norm / readily available for everyone?! Or is it just celebrities / people with severe health problems?

am I naive but surely a
nation injecting themselves can’t be good? What are the side effects? Why are we not educating people on health and healthy eating.

apologies if I am missing something or behind

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ChungkingDreamer · 15/08/2025 00:13

PringlesTube · 15/08/2025 00:12

And in today’s episode of this never actually happened… 😂

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I’m pretty sure it would have made the news if so many people in one area were hospitalised because of the jabs!

Badgerstmary · 15/08/2025 00:25

It was my brother’s partner & unfortunately it did happen. She was in tremendous pain in her stomach & bleeding from where she shouldn’t be! I don’t know how many people were in the ward as I didn’t ask. I was more concerned about her.

PringlesTube · 15/08/2025 00:28

Badgerstmary · 15/08/2025 00:25

It was my brother’s partner & unfortunately it did happen. She was in tremendous pain in her stomach & bleeding from where she shouldn’t be! I don’t know how many people were in the ward as I didn’t ask. I was more concerned about her.

The entire ward of women there because of weight loss jabs is the part that didn’t happen.

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chipsticksmammy · 15/08/2025 00:33

itstartedinthepeaks · 14/08/2025 17:10

Why are we not educating people on health and healthy eating

people are fat, not thick.

Here here

Deadringer · 15/08/2025 00:41

Givemethesun · 14/08/2025 19:28

One of the things that is confusing me is here we are saying they’re prescribed only to certain people who really need then which I can get on board with if it is just those people , but then I open daily mail which makes it sound like every celeb is on them. So it doesn’t marry up in my head

Why do you care?

PinkArt · 15/08/2025 01:04

Givemethesun · 14/08/2025 19:28

One of the things that is confusing me is here we are saying they’re prescribed only to certain people who really need then which I can get on board with if it is just those people , but then I open daily mail which makes it sound like every celeb is on them. So it doesn’t marry up in my head

You can 'get on board' with 'certain people ' being prescribed it? PHEW!!! Who needs the MHRA when we have Givemethesun to decide who fits the criteria and who doesn't, for a medicine she knows fuck all about.
If you are genuinely interested in learning more about WLI - prescribing criteria, side effects, benefits etc - then there is a fuck tonne of reading out there. Most newspapers have at least one article a day. New research about further uses for cancer treatment, dementia treatment etc is released all the time. There are hundreds of threads on MN from users of the medication about the good and the bad in their lived experience.
Or you could start a goady thread about how it would be better to teach the stupid fatties that carrots are better for you than cake. Much more fun, eh?

newfriend05 · 15/08/2025 01:21

Chewbecca · 14/08/2025 17:09

They are everywhere in my experience.

Mine too

SchoolDilemma17 · 15/08/2025 05:20

InWalksBarberalla · 14/08/2025 20:42

I don't understand why some posters are more concerned with the potential nebulous long term impacts of the weight loss medications than the well known and proven long term impacts of obesity.

Because they are secretly angry and jealous that fatties are now able to slim down and look and feel better. They shouldn’t be allowed.

BlankBlankBlank14 · 15/08/2025 06:06

Badgerstmary · 15/08/2025 00:25

It was my brother’s partner & unfortunately it did happen. She was in tremendous pain in her stomach & bleeding from where she shouldn’t be! I don’t know how many people were in the ward as I didn’t ask. I was more concerned about her.

Did the whole ward have stomach pain and bleeding from where they shouldn’t?

What was the medical diagnosis of the whole ward?

I don’t believe for one minute the whole ward were there for the same reason!

chowmeinz · 15/08/2025 06:38

Badgerstmary · 15/08/2025 00:25

It was my brother’s partner & unfortunately it did happen. She was in tremendous pain in her stomach & bleeding from where she shouldn’t be! I don’t know how many people were in the ward as I didn’t ask. I was more concerned about her.

So, what was the diagnosis and connection to WLI?

JayneBlonde · 15/08/2025 07:01

I’m no doctor but you’ve got health anxiety based on the number of threads you post bleating on about your own health so I don’t know quite why you would think anyone would take your opinion on medication as one that has any value.

xanthomelana · 15/08/2025 07:51

I do think that people on Mounjaro should be monitored more closely than they are now. I’ve been taking it for over a year and have lost over 6 stone but a recent trip to my GP has made me stop.

I had an appointment to discuss possible perimenopause, I told my GP my symptoms and that I was taking Mounjaro and she immediately ordered blood tests because my main symptom was itching and apparently that’s also a symptom of pancreatitis.

My bloods came back with raised amylase and lipase levels and in the meantime I’d started having an annoying pain in my abdomen going up to my shoulder blade.

I’ve stopped taking it now and have to go for regular blood tests to check everything is okay. I realise I was fortunate enough that my GP picked up on it and unfortunately she’s seen a few people with the same issues.

I’ll always be grateful for the results I’ve achieved using the jab and even though it’s given me complications I would still recommend it to anyone struggling to lose weight because there are risk factors with being overweight which balance it out. I do wish that people taking it were monitored more regularly, as I said I’ve been taking it for over a year with no major problems up until now and I fear that others who have been taking it for a long period won’t think about any risks because they’ve been on it so long.

Platosrevenge · 15/08/2025 08:08

Tbf I know of someone who had very serious consequences because of buying dodgy Mounjaro and given dangerous advice by the ‘health professional’ prescribing it.
I’m all for them but it seems to be widely available for those who want it, obese or not. The number of people obtaining it from beauticians is huge.

reluctantbrit · 15/08/2025 08:18

OneCoralCat · 14/08/2025 23:33

i did it the hard way, lost seven stone naturally. Gained it all back, and more, within a year. Because it was all consuming & I became as equally obsessed with restricting my intake as I did with overeating in the first place.

Mounjaro allows me to eat healthily, feel satisfied, I have the energy to work out, I’m calmer and happier overall all without putting any thought into it. It’s given me back a life that doesn’t revolve around food. I can assure you I don’t feel any less proud of my weight loss this time than last time.

ultimately I want to be fitter and healthier for myself and my children and I want to feel good about myself. That’s the end goal, the journey being more unpleasant won’t make that end goal feel any better

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This!

I also feel that with the constant worries, checking of what I ate and how the low calories are affecting my health.

I eat normal, just smaller portions, with some changes like more protein, less carb but I am not constantly querying myself and not falling into the trap of feeling crab because I had a small slice of cake to celebrate and then eating more because I feel crab and a failure.

stayathomer · 15/08/2025 08:30

That "finding it easy" part is essentially what the jabs give people like me. The ability to look at food and consider it both rationally and critically.
I'll turn down a burger in favour of a salad these days, and not feel as though I'm missing anything.

This is the only reason I feel sorry for people on the jabs, I wonder does it affect your enjoyment of eating- I’ll say ‘on Friday I’ll treat myself to a ‘ whatever that is, and then on my break on a Friday happily eat away. I’ve seen a lot of people on mn saying they don’t crave food, and don’t want unhealthy food etc- that sounds like hell to me. To me half the enjoyment is that you spend your week having wraps and only eating half your white bread, forgoing the fizzy drinks etc for the blow out on the weekend. Personally I think they’re equivalent to blood pressure medication and will help a lot more than negatively impact although I’ve seen two threads recently- one who is just below cut off and wants to use them after being advised not to, and the thread about a girl giving her non overweight sister some to cut her foid noise out. Both sound dangerous to me

OneCoralCat · 15/08/2025 08:39

stayathomer · 15/08/2025 08:30

That "finding it easy" part is essentially what the jabs give people like me. The ability to look at food and consider it both rationally and critically.
I'll turn down a burger in favour of a salad these days, and not feel as though I'm missing anything.

This is the only reason I feel sorry for people on the jabs, I wonder does it affect your enjoyment of eating- I’ll say ‘on Friday I’ll treat myself to a ‘ whatever that is, and then on my break on a Friday happily eat away. I’ve seen a lot of people on mn saying they don’t crave food, and don’t want unhealthy food etc- that sounds like hell to me. To me half the enjoyment is that you spend your week having wraps and only eating half your white bread, forgoing the fizzy drinks etc for the blow out on the weekend. Personally I think they’re equivalent to blood pressure medication and will help a lot more than negatively impact although I’ve seen two threads recently- one who is just below cut off and wants to use them after being advised not to, and the thread about a girl giving her non overweight sister some to cut her foid noise out. Both sound dangerous to me

Definitely don’t need to feel sorry for me, not sure about other people but I’ve spent my entire life eating ‘as a treat’ which is why I was nearly 20 stone! I now don’t equate food with being a treat, at all, so don’t feel like I’m missing out. The amount of weekends I’ve thought “oh I’ll just grab a McDonalds on the way home” or whatever, and then got there and thought I don’t actually want this, I’ll just go home and cook. After years of gorging, it feels so good to not crave it now.

But yes in reference to your last bit, both of those absolutely sound dangerous and as bad as any other medication being taken against the recommendations.

Thingyfanding · 15/08/2025 08:46

Comedycook · 14/08/2025 18:42

I've lost over three stone in the past but I was also thinking about food every minute of every day...it was absolute torture. I spent a good number of years with a healthy BMI but again food was always on my mind. The jabs are as much for my mental health as they are for my weight loss. It's stopped the constant battle in my head.

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Same here.

Seagullsandsausagerolls · 15/08/2025 08:54

They were a lifesaver for me. NHS waiting lists made it that due to surgery I needed i would only have been able to eat 800 calories a day, if I wanted to lose weight. I've had bulimia in the dark distant past and my consultant agreed that I should have the injections under his strict control, just until.surgery. I lost three stone in six months.

It's now six months since my surgery and I'm able to move about a bit better. No more injections but it seems to have reprogrammed my brain oddly. I'm still slowly still losing but still think more critically about food.

flightissue · 15/08/2025 09:51

I have honestly noticed a decrease in fat people generally. I live in an affluent area though. I think lots of people are on them including me. I have lost 47lb so far and still going. For me, they seem to be regularising my metabolism- I have Pcos. I didn’t eat unhealthily before but was still piling on weight. Suspect I will need to be in them for a long time.

chipsticksmammy · 15/08/2025 12:54

xanthomelana · 15/08/2025 07:51

I do think that people on Mounjaro should be monitored more closely than they are now. I’ve been taking it for over a year and have lost over 6 stone but a recent trip to my GP has made me stop.

I had an appointment to discuss possible perimenopause, I told my GP my symptoms and that I was taking Mounjaro and she immediately ordered blood tests because my main symptom was itching and apparently that’s also a symptom of pancreatitis.

My bloods came back with raised amylase and lipase levels and in the meantime I’d started having an annoying pain in my abdomen going up to my shoulder blade.

I’ve stopped taking it now and have to go for regular blood tests to check everything is okay. I realise I was fortunate enough that my GP picked up on it and unfortunately she’s seen a few people with the same issues.

I’ll always be grateful for the results I’ve achieved using the jab and even though it’s given me complications I would still recommend it to anyone struggling to lose weight because there are risk factors with being overweight which balance it out. I do wish that people taking it were monitored more regularly, as I said I’ve been taking it for over a year with no major problems up until now and I fear that others who have been taking it for a long period won’t think about any risks because they’ve been on it so long.

Where are you getting it from that its NOT appearing on your prescription medications list at your GPs?

Your prescriber should have told your GP, so they already know.

You shouldnt have to tell your GP anything it should be right there on your medications list.

chowmeinz · 15/08/2025 13:07

stayathomer · 15/08/2025 08:30

That "finding it easy" part is essentially what the jabs give people like me. The ability to look at food and consider it both rationally and critically.
I'll turn down a burger in favour of a salad these days, and not feel as though I'm missing anything.

This is the only reason I feel sorry for people on the jabs, I wonder does it affect your enjoyment of eating- I’ll say ‘on Friday I’ll treat myself to a ‘ whatever that is, and then on my break on a Friday happily eat away. I’ve seen a lot of people on mn saying they don’t crave food, and don’t want unhealthy food etc- that sounds like hell to me. To me half the enjoyment is that you spend your week having wraps and only eating half your white bread, forgoing the fizzy drinks etc for the blow out on the weekend. Personally I think they’re equivalent to blood pressure medication and will help a lot more than negatively impact although I’ve seen two threads recently- one who is just below cut off and wants to use them after being advised not to, and the thread about a girl giving her non overweight sister some to cut her foid noise out. Both sound dangerous to me

This is really weird. I have been on it 9 months and can treat myself to a… of if I want. No enjoyment spoilt. I only take 2.5mg as I find that gives the best balance for me. I think the mentality of restriction through the week to blowout at the weekend is the one that needs pity.

Platosrevenge · 15/08/2025 13:18

chipsticksmammy · 15/08/2025 12:54

Where are you getting it from that its NOT appearing on your prescription medications list at your GPs?

Your prescriber should have told your GP, so they already know.

You shouldnt have to tell your GP anything it should be right there on your medications list.

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Folk can get it anywhere, trust me. People inject it directly out of the ampule which in some cases aren’t even labelled. There’s an increasing black market in it. I know of someone who is a size 8/10 using it.

Platosrevenge · 15/08/2025 13:22

Personally, I think if you have health issues like hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or angina and are overweight rather than obese you should also have access to it.
I’ve got high BP, PCOS, never really overeaten but since kids I cannot loose weight despite the gym, active job and lifestyle. I’d love to loose 2 stone and am sure it would help me come off medication.

SilenceInside · 15/08/2025 13:29

Platosrevenge · 15/08/2025 13:22

Personally, I think if you have health issues like hypertension, hyperlipidaemia or angina and are overweight rather than obese you should also have access to it.
I’ve got high BP, PCOS, never really overeaten but since kids I cannot loose weight despite the gym, active job and lifestyle. I’d love to loose 2 stone and am sure it would help me come off medication.

You can, if your BMI is 27 or higher.

Iamfree · 15/08/2025 13:30

OP, I see you don’t follow the news. As many have said they have been around for 20 years. “Educating about healthy eating”. Oh do STFU please. Soon all people using WLI will be thinner and healthier than you. How does that make you feel ?