Ozempic getting popular?

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2 separate friends told me today they are on Ozempic. 1 I can understand why because she has struggled with weight for a few years now and dieting doesn’t work for her but the other has gone from a 10 😑 to a 6 😐.

I know of others on it too but they’re wealthy clients o it’s not as surprising they’re on it. Is it actually being used more than I naively thought and not just for Hollywood types? I didn’t realise it was so easy to get. Is it safe?

I’d say there are loads of people on it, a huge amount. One of my friends started it and I’m a bit jealous! It’s a wonder drug and will change the world.

@ClonedSquare .
Yeah, I sorry meant Wegovy/ Ozempic.
Either way, weight loss users are now on Wegovy, and Mounaro is not prescribed for diabetes, so people using it are not causing shortages of Ozempic.

Lower doses start at about £150, higher doses go up in price, highest dose is £280.

The increase in people obtaining it privately means a lot of nhs chemists are struggling to stock it.

my mom had a form of it for diabetes and hasn’t been able to get it. She’s now been told they will have a stock in around 3 months.

@AllBlackEverything the highest 2 doses are not released in the UK yet. It can be back ordered for £175 at several places. My low dose was £114. I have paid variously £135, and £145 going up the doses. My last order of the 3rd highest dose was £155

I'm not convinced yet,I think there will be a lot of issues caused by taking it that won't become known for a while. It's a wonder drug for some but the side effects can be awful.

I agree but the side effects of obesity are pretty bad too. It really is taking the world by storm.

@AllBlackEverything Can you give some links to where it costs that much? I've never seen prices that high even for the later doses. There are only six dose levels in the first place, so if people can get up to 10 (the currently highest available) for under £200, you’re scaremongering to talk as if much higher prices are standard.

The price of the highest doses also isn’t really that relevant though. Plenty of people stay on the lower doses and only increase if their weight loss stalls. Even if you took the fastest route by increasing each month, you’d be six months in before you needed the highest dose. So the only people staying on it that long are people who have serious weight to lose and therefore serious risks from obesity.

Mounjaro is literally licensed for type 2 diabetes, and is prescribable on the NHS - link. You're spreading misinformation

@montysma1 can I ask where you order from? Interested in trying it myself but always seem to find very high cost sites

I’m not the person you asked, but I order from Asda. It’s one of the more expensive options (£179) and is still way lower than some of the prices being claimed here.

@ClonedSquare thank you I will have a look at that

For Wegovy? If you are getting 2.4 for £175 please tell me where!

The phrase that springs to mind for these drugs is “if it seems too good to be true, it probably is”

I think the killer side effect is that if you stop taking it, you put the weight back on plus more.
There is a mechanism as to why that happens, and that for me is going to be the sting in the tail for these drugs.

As a diabetic who can't get my meds for love nor money at the moment because of the stock shortage, it infuriates me

Wegovy

Do you feel that way about all medical breakthroughs? Vaccines and various medicines would all have been seen as miracles when they were discovered, yet no one is posting dark warnings over Mumsnet about the side effects of penicillin or the whooping cough vaccine.

@AllBlackEverything So not £280 as you claimed in your last post, and certainly not the £300 you originally claimed. And every other dose of Wegovy (and all the Mounjaro doses) is significantly cheaper even than that.

I didn't say £300, read back. I said £280 for top dose, I was out by £11 🤷🏻‍♀️

I was simply responding to whoever said it's nowhere near £300. £269 is pretty close.

You can also get it with a BMI of 27 if you are of certain ethnicities - you can be overweight(/obese) at a size 10, for example if you are a petite woman of Indian origin. Several of my Indian aunties/cousins are visibly overweight when only a size 10 in some brands, so dress size doesn;t necessarily correlate to a healthy BMI for some ethnicities/body types.

Re prices - they were ridiculously high last summer where there was a shortage - £300 for even the 0.5mg ozempic/wegovy was the going rate. Thankfully it’s much cheaper now that prodiction has increased and there is also Mounjaro.

I'll respond to your edit too - READ BACK.

I said it starts at around £150, up to £300 for highest.

My numbers were slightly out as I see it now starts at £169 and top dose is £269.

You are being weirdly aggressive about this.

It's also literally prescribed for weight loss. So weight loss users are not causing a shortage. That's the misinformation.

What are the cheaper tablets you use, if you don’t mind me asking?

I’d prefer if these injection threads had their own section. Not everyone can take them, I can’t for medical reasons so I don’t want to hear about people losing loads of weight by taking them when I’m looking for people trying to lose weight without which is a slow slow process. I don’t care if people take them, you’re making a choice to put something into your body to lose weight fine cool up to you completely. There are just so many of them now.