Feckin furious about skinny jabs

[Enyastar]

Ive just told sn online practioner my BMI is 24.4..im 5ft 2 and weigh 9st 7 amd i want to lose 2 stone.
Gone through online consult and for £265 i can start my jabs.
Fuck me........

Oh get a life. Haven’t you got anything better to do?

Yes you can, Voy, Med Express and another few are prescribing them off label. Edited to add I was very surprised when I read that thread in Weightloss, but yes people are getting it at lower BMI’s now.

Others have said it but I’ll be blunter: you’ve made this up.

no one is reviewing anything before you’ve paid for the services

That doesn’t mean anything. A friend of mine, who is not overweight but quite lazy, signed up and they took her money upfront but once she’d paid she didn’t pass their tests so they refunded her. She tried 2 or 3 places and they all did the same: take the money but then refuse. Once she’d paid she found she had to do pics and video herself getting on and of the scales etc. That’s when they said no.

She’s now following my advice of not being so bloody stupid!

So why did you apply for a prescription for something you don't need? Seems very odd.

What a weird thing to do.

What's next, sending your 17 year old to see if the corner shop will sell them alcohol?

Yup according to AI it’s not illegal it’s just taken a dim view of. So I’m not sure why OP is getting so worked up.

Please name the pharmacy or this thread is entirely pointless.

What do you think the health risks are? Diabetic people have been taking these meds for decades. Genuinely curious.

That is actually illegal so different.

Why are you getting annoyed at posters not understanding you? You’re not making the sense you think you are 🙄.

@Enyastar which online pharmacy?

From the list that I use, I can't find a pharmacy that charges £265 for Mounjaro or Wegovy, which makes me wonder what it is that the OP has signed up for. Especially if she hasn't had to provide even a photo as evidence of her weight.

Then report the prescribing doctor to the GMC.

No point just complaining here

If im 9.5 stone and classed as chubby at 5ft 2 have to laugh.
I do 100 squats and sit ups daily. My weight is muscle. I am an ex semi athlete.
I have been approved.

I did this to prove a point. The industry is CORRUPT.

Meh they are all the same. All will have you put in your details then say 'ok, you meet the criteria, please pay up'. Then when it goes to review / prescription they won't actually prescribe and you have to chase a refund. It's an intentional business practice as they just need 1 in 100 people to forget to chase for a refund and they get free money.

Well yes. They have unethical business practices. But I assure you, you wouldn't have received those meds.

I’m not sure why you applied for something you didn’t want?

Would you consider doing the lottery then if you are successful you will be happy instead of angry.

I think OP has just misunderstood that she thinks she’s been okayed when she hasn’t. Aiui the real tests come once she has paid.

I know this because my friend mentioned above made the same mistake. She rang me to tell me she’d been accepted and I said “how?” But these places are not stupid and she rang me back in a dudgeon when they later turned her down.

Have you actually spoken with the prescribing doctor - ie had the zoom call given the evidence of your weight with photos? That step usually happens after you have given card details. They then say no, you cannot have it and you are issued a refund. They take the money before this stage because the doctor’s time costs money so they take it up front to prevent people wasting their time. Many people fail at that point.

You won’t pass the final stage, but if you are really determined to prove this is some sort of cynical scam, come back when you are holding the actual prescription in your hand and then, maybe, contact a journalist who has an interest in this area.

Name the pharmacy for goodness sake. And then report it to the GPhC and whoever else regulates them eg the CQC and so on.

It took you long enough to come to the point!

This comment is not about the specifics of OP’s case, but about the question of why there are rules about who can be prescribed WLI’s. Those rules are: BMI 30+, or 27+ with one of several health conditions.

The reason there is a limit is that these drugs have risks and side effects, as do all medications. When someone is above a certain size, the risks from their weight are higher than the risks from the medication, therefore overall they are better off using them and losing weight versus not using them and staying the weight they are. At the population level, though - if you are one of the users who had a serious and irreversible complication from using them, you might wish you hadn’t.

for people who are normal weight or only slightly overweight, the health benefits they could get from the weight loss are quite small, and not worth the risk of the side effects. That’s the basis for the limitations as to who can be prescribed them.

People who have lost weight on them and are below the weight at which they would be eligible are a different case. The assumption there is that if they stopped the drug they would regain the weight and their weight-related risks would go up again.

Someone who wants to from a BMI if 30 to 25 is not in the same situation as someone who wants to go from 25 to 30, even though they both want to lose the same amount of weight. The first would be getting a much greater benefit to their health, but they both face the same risk from the jabs.

And someone who is at a BMI. of 25 having used the jabs to get there is not in the same position as someone starting out at 25.

You will be more feckin furious when you pile the weight back on after spending hundreds and hundreds of quid on the jabs. And then even more furious if it costs you your eyesight.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/10/wegovy-sudden-sight-loss-ozempic-study-semaglutide#:~:text=But%20a%20study%2C%20published%20in,times%20greater%20risk%20than%20women.

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/behind-the-headlines/coming-off-mounjaro

I don’t quite get what your post is about. If you’re normal weight, you don’t need jabs. If you’re willing to pay, you will get firms willing to send them out, for a price.

If you need them, for health reasons, you can get them free, via the NHS. 🤷‍♀️

You’ll be rejected so this isn’t quite the ‘gotcha’ that you think it is

they take your money and then it goes for review with the prescriber. You’ll then be rejected

this is a pointless thread