I got it from Zava with a BMI of 30.1 so just on the borderline of overweight/obese. I had 2st 2 to lose to get back to the top end of the healthy zone (BMI 25) but am hoping to get to more towards the middle (BMI 23/24) to give myself some wiggle room while working on maintaining.
I had to take a photo of my feet on the scale and a photo of me in the mirror, side on, in both pics I needed to show the same handwritten date on paper
I was told by the Zava dr that I was right on the line of being refused (I don’t have any diagnosed conditions and the only medication I take regularly is HRT for peri meno) but they accepted me because I filled out the weight related problems box saying how the extra weight affected my self esteem and I was finding It hard to get back to my previous levels of exercise due to joint pain (especially my knees, I used to be a dance teacher for adult beginners but didn’t feel able to go back to it post covid)
I suppose they want to avoid the borderline weight customers/patients who don’t have an additional condition or health related rationale for wanting it?
I expect your work friend also has solid reasons for wanting rid of her extra 2 stones, even if, like me, she doesn’t have any relevant diagnosed conditions on her record (I’m generally the sort of person who needs to have gangrene before seeing a HCP, I only ever see anyone for lady-health stuff like contraception and smear tests. That will probably change now I’m almost 50, of course)!
I’m already half way back from borderline obese to healthy, and both my joints and self esteem have improved significantly.
I’m probably locked into Zava for all future prescriptions (I have my second pen but haven’t started it yet) due to my current weight but that’s not a terrible problem to have - they are reasonably priced, allow for two years worth of maintenance pens and I hopefully won’t need the higher dose/more expensive pens at all.
I expect to have to provide new photos whenever Zava request it, but they didn’t ask for more when I ordered the second one.
They generate a letter you can print out for your doctor and have added to your medical records and both my pens have come with more screw on needles than doses (4 doses per pen, 7 needles per order) which made me much less worried about making errors/messing up (and means I could use the extra ‘bonus dose’ at different time to my 4th scheduled injection).
some people have complained about Zava pens arriving warm but both of mine have been fine and the second one arrived in a different type of cold packaging so I think they are listening to feedback on that problem.
please pass my post onto your friend, I hope she finds it helpful (I can give her a Zava code so the first pen is £120ish, which would give me money off my 3rd one but MN won’t allow it on this thread because people complain about seeing it all the time which is fair enough. Obvs if you use Zava too give your friend your own code 😂but if not you can PM me)