Greater restrictions on sale of injectables likely

[Puppylucky]

According to a Times investigation today, there is increasing discomfort around the lack of checks on people trying to buy Mounjaro etc, with reports of it being used inappropriately. It looks like they will tighten things up considerably.
What do we think? Personally I think it's a good thing, as even on here it can feel a bit like the Wild West at times, with people stockpiling and devising their own treatment schedules.- a bit more oversight might be useful to save people from themselves.

I think you are conflating a couple of things.

Appropriate checks to make sure people meet the clinical criteria - fine

People titrating between doses is not Wild West it’s the opposite. You want to be on the lowest dose the produces results without unacceptable side effects. Why take a higher dose than you need.

People stockpiling is a direct result of the U.K. guidelines not addressing maintenance of losses appropriately. Research seems to show that titrating doses down rather than stopping abruptly helps preserve weight loss. However, some pharmacies have a hard cut off when you reach a healthy weight. Some people ensure that they have enough to titrate down sensibly.

Maybe so - but it still feels quite disconcerting to me, how many people seem to be viewing the prescribed treatment schedule as a suggestion, rather than a medical directive. I know this is uncharted territory and everyone is reacting differently to the medication, but it just feels very unregulated at the moment and more medical intervention feels like a good thing to me.

I’m on Mounjaro, I meet the clinical requirements and am quite happy to have extra medical intervention, as I imagine most people taking in will be. Maybe then we will get a proper maintenance plan rather than just being cut off at a certain BMI, which is contrary to the research findings.
I have stayed on 5mg as it is working for me (losing 1-2lbs a week), which seems more sensible to me than going arbitrarily up the doses to get faster weight loss.

I've just read the Times article at it seems there were 2 pharmacies who didn't have the same criteria as many of the other do. The extra restrictions are what the majority are already doing. (Photos).

Sounds like a good idea if people where abusing it. The 2 pharmacies I've used have had stringent checks, so I'm happy with that.

I did laugh at the part in the article where it mentions the doctors concerns for the 'young, beautiful women'. Lol. Not so much for the old ugly ones, then.

A 'Times investigation' is just that. A newspaper report

Doubt it will have much effect and 'they' ( who is 'thru'???) are unlikely to do much off the back of it!!

I think more ability to be prescribed on the NHS would be the answer - obviously if people are paying a lot of money they'd prefer to reduce this by staying on the same dose. I haven't heard of people trying to go over the suggested dose, quite the opposite.
Having taken saxenda briefly in the past, the procedure for being prescribed Wegovy has been tighter - photos, and it said they had to tell my GP which was just a choice with saxenda.

You think burdening the NHS with costs is the answer?

Reducing all the costs associated with long term obesity?

Obesity costs the NHS around 6.5 billion a year. Prescribing these meds responsibly via the NHS would have a huge impact on public health.

The cost of obesity related conditions is far far greater.