To think all these weight loss jabs are a bad move?

[Pineconecollector]

I’ve seen so many people recently saying they’re on Mounjaro - someone wrote on Facebook that they were struggling to eat anything at all, hadn't eaten for over 48 hours. Just zero desire to eat anything. Surely that can’t be healthy?

I also know of someone who has lied to an only e pharmacy to get the jab, because her BMI would be considered too low to be prescribed it. She’s wanting to get down to a size 6.

Good move if you're a shareholder, but I agree, not healthy at all. What happens when people come off it?

I agree. They’re fantastic for people with diabetes and other conditions related to obesity and I fully support their use. They are very open to abuse, though and much, much tighter regulation is needed.

You have to send in photos for the first prescription, so she is lying and thats not the injections fault.

Its like the argument for abortion pills by post, nasty man may make vulnerable lady take them - no!

This is working for a lot of people, so they should not be penalised because your friend has an eating disorder or is stupid or is vain

I think they have their place and if used correctly can be useful for some people who truly struggle to lose weight and who are at risk of serious health problems because of their weight

What worries me is how easy it is to lie & get it online if you are a healthy weight.so many women i know are using the jabs as an easy diet.

YABU.

There is nothing wrong with the jabs. People who use them in an inappropriate manner are the issue.

I'm on them. I still get hungry, I still exercise willpower and I still have to watch what I eat and how much I exercise. But it's just made everything a touch easier for me.

This! Same for me.

I have no experience of them but all I see on TikTok is how unwell they are making the people taking it. They are ending up in hospital or at best spending days in bed with sickness and diarrhoea.

You shouldn’t be able to order them online.

YABU.

as with most things, people will game the system and not use it for its true purpose. Doesn’t make it inherently bad.

some people claim benefits falsely, doesn’t mean the majority who claim honestly shouldn’t have benefits available.

some people use their cars to run drugs and have sex in for money. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have cars for the school run when it’s 9 miles each way.

And I have had 0 side effects. As have the people on the countless boards on here taking them.

I agree, a bad idea. They restrict people's appetites, so the only long term solution is to have these injections for life? Because as soon as you stop and your normal appetite resumes, you'll gain all the weight back? It's not addressing the reasons for overeating and it's not teaching healthier eating/exercise etc

I wouldn't know they existed if not for MN. There seems to be hundreds of threads about it every day which certainly gives the impression that everyone is on it and weight watchers will soon be out of business. I wonder if the long term whether it will follow the slimming club model whereby people lose weight, then regain it, then go back on the drugs again.

Isn't there a shortage? Perhaps it should only be available on the NHS so that proper checks can be made to prevent abuse?

Good for you. I said the videos I have saw online. The bad stories always get more air time.

No it’s not healthy and not ideal but you have to look at risk v benefit and if someone has a v high bmi it’s the more likely that will be harmful

So tiktok says its bad and you want to ban it?

If the NHS would prescribe it, we'd all be going there for it, but they dont, so you have to go online

They are pretty strictly controlled and regulated. There are ways round this, but that’s probably the case with many prescribed drugs. I personally don’t have a problem if someone overweight, but not obese is prescribed them. My BMI was 29 when I started (so not obese but very close).

I have lost the desire to eat, but common sense kicks in and you force yourself. And, because you know you won’t eat much, you make better choices.

I know plenty of people on Mounjaro and can honestly say not one of them has been unwell on it. I’ve not had a single side effect either, but my BP and resting heart rate are lower and my cholesterol has just been tested and is perfect (was highish 6 months ago).

They are excellent medications which do the job of supporting people to take fewer calories in to aid weight loss

They are a support tool for people who want to lose weight (if being used for that purpose)

Like all drugs they have potential side effects, some people will experience none or a mild version of them, some wont be able to tolerate the drug at all and so will need to stop using it

Like all drugs, they are open to misuse

I hope in time they are usual everyday medications to support weight loss prescribed directly by the GP but we're not there yet

Some people may need to stay on them for life, just like people are on diabetes medication for life, or statins or ADs or painkillers.

I think they are a fabulous development for weight management, but like any drug you will get a tiny minority who abuse it, of course not eating for 48 hours isn’t healthy, of course lying isn’t ok, but there will always be a small minority who do it. But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad move.

they are here to stay, the benefits are huge, even weight watchers will now start selling it under their own brand,

YABU.

all medication is open to abuse.

Medication can make people's lives better, easier, healthier, however weight loss injections taken without fully understanding the implications, without support or when you really don't fit the prescrbing criteria are a recipe for trouble.

For those who cannot retrain their appetites and habits in the several months it takes to get healthy weight, then yes they can take them for life at a maintence dose. The drugs themselves are hugely beneficial, not just for diabetes, but they are now looking to have it approved for cardio vascular health, they also reduce inflammation and they think retard dementia, they have been in use for well over a decade.

I also think that off the internet, not that many people care.

Obviously on places like this, they seem more prevalent.

I spoke to a HCP last week and in the course of our discussion the fact I was on the jabs came up. She'd never even heard of them.

If I was overweight I would definitely try it. But because of my history it wouldn't be a very good idea. I did look out of curiosity and it said it would automatically notify your GP if you got some. I guess that's a good deterrent for someone not to abuse it. If the GP found that I was using it I think it could trigger me being sectioned.
But I honestly think it seems to work. I just am concerned about the long term effects. How long can you use it for safely? Surely when you stop the weight comes back with a vengeance?

I think that’s the issue, on here you’d think everyone was at it, but I’m reality it is a tiny percentage of the population. Tiny,

WW would be very smart to do that. Slimming clubs are a tool just like the jabs are a tool, yet you dont see page after page after page of people slagging off WW or SW to say 'what happens when you dont follow the plan anymore'

All weight loss methods are difficult at best and there is often regain on all weight loss methods but for some reason people only seem concerned about that for the medication