Anyone paying privately for GLP1’s as type 2 diabetic

[Ladymuck2022]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has paid privately for the GLP1’s and then turned their diabetes type 2 around. I’m active pretty much every day and been on the GLP1’s keeping off 3 stone off in two years on Saxenda/Victoza, Trulicity through to the latest one Mounjaro. The diabetic nurses are aware I’ve had private prescriptions and that I have a family line of diabetes.

I understand I’m only eligible for the nhs soups and shakes diet as it is so I’ve kept up getting private prescriptions for the injections. I’ve always had a highish bmi as I’m short height wise and perhaps when I was diagnosed as diabetic before the pandemic hit I should maybe have been known as pre-diabetic.

For the second time following bloods done I’ve got a consider coming off medication (ie metformin) and just wonder if anyone else has found themselves in this position?

We always hear about the lotto to get prescriptions but never about these end results and what that means long term.

The GP authorised the diabetic nurse to take me off metformin with immediate effect today, review in 6 months, wouldn’t really enter into a conversation about the weight loss injections.

Still with a bmi of 44, appreciate the really good readings on accu-check and told to keep doing that, now I’m undecided to go without both and see what the future looks like in 6 months.

I have type 2 and take empagliflozin. I asked my nurse about it this week and because I manage it ok and have got my sugars down and kept them down, I don't qualify for Mounjaro on the NHS. I understand but I was a bit sad! And she said she wished she could prescribe it because they have had really good results with the patients that have got it. She gave me loads of advice too so I feel supported by the practice in what I'm planning to do next.

I'm starting a private prescription for Mounjaro at the end of the month, after my eye-screen later this week.

Ah best of luck. You put it beautifully that’s me I never suffered very high blood sugar it was always the other way. Really all I got was a sermon from the nurse about diabetics who are emotional eaters having easy access to the kitchen in these times and how this would save the nhs billions in the long run, without answering the question or knowing whether I remote work or not.

It only took 6 months on MJ to get to this point/this result I just spent a couple of months each dose getting up to 7.5. I have since switched to a teeny winy starting 0.25 dose on Wegovy but suppose as I got a couple of weeks left I can still decide and hope the supplier might now allow it for weight loss.

The eye screener the day before was bit negative about the remission saying you’ll still be coming here each year but today I’m told I do not have to attend until Feb 2027.

Second day without metformin and it is going good.

It seems so random.

My BMI is 27.5, so I'm.overweight but not obese. However I can't get my blood sugars stabilized so have been prescribed MJ. I was quite surprised they agreed but I meet the criteria because Metformin plus Empagliflozin isn't working.

Ah yes, it is really interesting I’d heard of people having history where metformin wasn’t working I was offered dapagliflozin in 2023 when the stock issues affected Victoza but chose against it, as I didn’t want to pee sugar out with a fibroid and the increased risk of uti’s both can bring and must admit all the medical professionals apart from one who took issue with my weight all use to ask are you a diabetic controlled by diet and lifestyle.

I only know people who got rid of diabetes fast after diagnosis.

I was watching an old documentary last Friday and didn’t realise when someone comes out of weight loss surgery they very often lose the diabetic tag straight away, come off meds before they’ve left the hospital and started losing weight. There must have been people who took matters into their own hands and paid for surgery.

3 weeks of Metformin tomorrow and it has been good, haven’t put any weight on or had any readings at all in the red. I think I will stick with Wegovy on the lowest doses as long as I can, just accept the biggest side effect is getting free of diabetes.

Hope mj works as well for you as it has me.