I think my friend is addicted to taking Wegovy

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She started earlier this year. I know she 'cheated' by holding heavy weights to make the scales show a heavier weight.

I don't know her exact starting weight, but she is about 5.5 and was a good size 16.

I saw her in real life last week and oh my god, she's so thin. I was shocked. She's a size 8 she says although she looks thinner.

She's still taking Wegovy! She says she's taking it less frequently though. She's barely eating anything but drinking a lot😢

This post is not to judge anyone who takes wegovy etc, I know it's been brilliant for so many people. But I'm really worried about her. She says she gets it from super drug, but I have a horrible feeling she's getting it illegally online somewhere.

Just to reiterate she does not look healthy. She looks anorexic.

Is it safe to carry on taking it like this?

No there isn't. It's a possible outcome of any large weight loss, especially if fast and not accompanied by strength training and decent nutrition.

This is not true. Lot's of legal providers don't tell the GP. Although they do advise you yourself to tell the GP. It's not even a legal requirement to have a GP fgs

No that's just derogatory terms used to describe those of us who have lost weight.

Sorry folks, mumsnet deleted my other thread and has a link pointing back here.

Weight loss injection board...you can check out but you can never leave..

Now who's being paranoid?.Give your head a wobble and stop being so dramatic.

I know. She's come on here accusing people of being prickly and intending to follow her..for no reason at all...but it's others that are being paranoid or prickly. As I said, we see you, OP.

As far as I understand addiction being addicted to the actual drug is different to being 'addicted' /struggling to stop using it because she prefers the weigh she looks now iykwim? You would really need to know some facts to be sure what's going on like how much she actually weighs, where she is getting the medication and is there a medical professional involved. As a friend I can understand your worry but tbh if there is a problem trying to talk to her is probably going to drive her away as a defense mechanism which is the last thing you want. All you can really do is see what she says about the medication/her weight herself and gently use that to ask questions about her plans etc

Were you 'shocked' and 'concerned for her' when she had a BMI classified as overweight/ obese?

Respectfully, someone else's weight is none of your business.

Ah I see that these drug users feel that they are got at. Alright then.

@blueshoes do you call other people who take prescription medicine "drug users"?

@blueshoes if you don't use the injections why are you even weighing in?

Seriously the last 24 hours on this board have been nothing but rude to those of us on the jabs. We've been called lazy, gluttonous, "drug users", a million and one things.

You cannot tell that someone has used ozempic from their face. You just can't.

Of course someone who is 5 5 and a size 6 is underweight…. Give your head a wobble

This is quite a touchy thread, I realise. You guys know it all, so please crack on.

It's not touchy for users to be fed up of constantly being harassed for taking prescription medication.

If you're not taking the medicine yourself and not had extensive research outside mumsnet boards about it, then yes we do know everything about this medicine more than you.

@blueshoes why the feck are you hovering around this board ? Awaiting a chance to call us drug users ! Get a life you saddo.

Medical history and personal circumstances?! My friend lied on a form, no medical checks made, and injects himself with this stuff every week. Utter madness.

Who cares?

Seriously? That's his choice. It doesn't affect you in the slightest

Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are. All the "my friend lied, etc" posters are interesting and obviously similar to their friends. It's not the gotcha people think it is.

That's crazy!, though I understand the spam concerns that trigger MNHQ to delete weight loss injection threads that crop up in other topics.

Given that the OP is compelled to keep her thread here, it would be good if her query could be taken at face value, rather than trying to cram it into this weird framing that lots of posters have, in which it is imagined that non-obese people don't want obese people to have access to medications that can help them.

The concern isn't with the meds as such, but with the dangerously lax sales model that allows people to buy prescription drugs online and use them without medical supervision. It is obvious how severe the potential is for abuse or accidental harm, not uniquely with weight loss drugs but with a whole host of drugs that are prescription only for good reason.

I would be worried for your friend, OP. If you have a good enough friendship with her, I hope you would feel able to broach the idea that a possible eating disorder may be developing

@ReadWithScepticism is it weight loss drugs specifically that you have an issue with the prescribing process online or are there other medicines that you think are subject to dangerously lax practices?

Oh ignore me, I just re-read your post and answered my own question.

Some People always will abuse anything, from laxatives, co codamol, you name it someone will abuse it.
I am not going to belittle the OP’s concern but she needs to talk to her friend, not a load of people who are taking a med legitimately. It’s like going on a wine specialist forum and saying her mate is an alcoholic.

Thanks. I am going to see her next week and I'm going to speak to her about it.

I shan't bother to report back and poke the hornets nest because I can see even if she admits to an eating disorder there is a vocal group on here that will just assume I have some weird agenda to try and upset them.

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