How do already slim people get weightloss injections and does it work?

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Maybe a silly question but I’m thinking of famous people who are already slim.

X loses weight due to ozdmempic! They aren’t overweight to start with so how do they get it and presumably it must work but I just wondered about why a smaller person would try this?

They can buy them privately. Even if you are slim, there is sill weight that can be lost and an appetite suppressed l. So I guess it would work.

The D-list one on TV the other night got it off a "friend".

I imagine some celebs have the finances and options to get private prescriptions and pay for very close monitoring. Or they have the finances to encourage Drs to prescribe outside license and ignore the dangers (look at cases like Matthew Perry who had Drs inappropriately prescribing ketamine)

If you have enough money you can buy a prescription for whatever you want.

The US is very different to the UK in terms of what can be prescribed by doctors, just look at the situation with Michael Jackson. He was being anaesthetised every night because he couldn't sleep. Madness.

In the UK, they're either taking unknown substances they've bought from dodgy sources, or they're getting it fraudulently by actively lying to prescribers, or getting it from someone who was legitimately prescribed it and passes it on. Either to a friend or selling it. All illegal though.

Unscrupulous doctors. And yes it does work as the effects are the same but it's not worth the risks if you aren't obese. The risks of obesity can be considered to outweigh the risks of the drug.

Well I don't think it's rocket science to know that everything can be bought at a price!

You could probably buy them here online if you lied about your weight etc. a friends husband did it

I wish that these reports, on tv or in newspapers/online would be absolutely clear that these idiots are obtaining these drugs illegally if in the UK. All this "got it from a friend" business is just obfuscating.

My friend said, that daughter had tried it, she acquired it from a friend but it made her really ill 😩

The friend had bought it online

@Mt61 was the friend obese and actually able to be prescribed it, or was it bought online without any pharmacist or doctor oversight from a dodgy website?

The problem with lying about it or obtaining it from a friend, is that the dosage is different depending on how long you've been on it etc. you could end up taking too much and feeling really ill.

Also people who will take a drug from a friend or lie to obtain it are unlikely to follow titration dosage and their body weight is by definition lower so if you go in at a higher dose, with a low body fat percentage, you're going to get all the nasty side effects at once. When you're prescribed it properly they ask if you're ready to go up a dose. I stayed at the same dosage for 2 months because my stomach was a bit upset. I can't imagine how horrible I would have felt if I started at that dose or double it (which is the maximum!)

I briefly bought mine privately from Boots

There was no face to face consultation, so it would be so easy to lie

I'm a good 6 stone overweight, but the Saxenda made me feel so ill and getting rid of the sharps was such a hassle, that I stopped it

@MissAtomicBomb1 yes, I know that, it's blindingly obvious that it's an incredibly stupid thing to do. I don't think I was suggesting otherwise?

No need for the shitty response.
My comment wasn't meant as an attack on you, just a contribution to the general discussion on the thread around the risks of buying online.

I think it was quoting me specifically so that I would be notified it what made me think that it was a comment aimed directly at me. Apologies if that wasn't the intent.

No worries, I think I probably meant to quote the poster you were replying to, sorry! 🙈

Wouldn’t say obese no. Certainly don’t think she should be passing it on

Could be fake

I'm a member of some aesthetics groups and they do discus it.
Sometimes it a therapist asking if they can prescribe! But usually it's that they know someone who has access to supplies and are asking how they have this?
From what I can work out, there's a small number of aesthetic practitioners who have managed to get hold of semiglutide intended for diabetics and are selling it, so not Mounjaro or Wegovy.
This is behind the recent hospitalisation reports in the media.

Through private GPs. The blanket BMI rules are for subscriptions. GPs can prescribe for for lower BMIs if you have other conditions - eg pcos/high cholesterol/ Asian origin with a bmi over 23.

I read today that Lottie moss was on it - Kate moss’ super skinny sister- Crazy!

BigGreyDusty · Today 11:58

I am Type 2 Diabetic but as I'm managing my levels the Dr won't prescribe me weightloss injections. I have tried Superdrug and Boots and they won't prescribe me any for the same reasons.
I'm fat and wanting to lose weight and I'm struggling.

Is there anyone out there who got a prescription from a Private Doctor for weightloss injections?