So expensive, how do you choose?

[MrTiddlesTheCat]

The price differences between these medicines are huge so how do you choose?

Where I live the prices are fixed at approimately:

Mounjaro - £450 per month
Wegovy - £300 per month
Saxenda - £250 per month
Mysimba - £110 per month
Orlistat - £26 per month

I started the free weightloss 3 month programme funded by the public health service 2 weeks ago. So next week I get the option of discussing taking one of those listed above with the doctor. To be honest, the prices terrify me. But so does the thought of having a heart attack.

There's loads of threads on here about mounjaro and wegovy but has anyone had the others?

The first three are all GLP-1 medications. Mounjaro and Wegovy are once a week injections, Saxenda is daily. Mounjaro is proven to be the most effective with the least side effects.

MySimba is less effective than the GLP-1s and seems to have more serious side effects.

Orlistat is a fat binder that stops you from being able to absorb fat. It produces weight loss as a result, but has unpleasant side effects of oily stools and poor bowel control/urgency. You have to eat a low fat diet to avoid those. It's also not as effective as the GLP-1 medications.

If the cost is an issue, you could try Saxenda as the cheapest of the GLP-1s see how you get on. I personally wouldn't take MySimba or Orlistat because of the possible side effects and the lesser efficacy.

£450 per month for Mounjaro? I havent paid full price yet, the most I've paid is £110.

Where do you live??

Check out some comparison sites: MJ is around 120 a month, Wegovy a bit less. The others are much less effective and have unpleasant side effects so no point to go there.

I'd assume it's not the UK, and the prices have been converted in sterling to make it easier for us to understand.

Prices quoted were for the UK. If you live somewhere with very strange high prices your options are to visit other places and buy there or go grey.

@MrTiddlesTheCat could you confirm if you're in the UK or not?

do you have health insurance?

I've just paid £130 for mounjaro (4 weeks at 15mg). Your prices seem awfully steep

Op, you know a pen lasts you 4 weeks right? Not a pen a week?

No I'm not in the UK. I'm in Sweden.

Mounjaro UK pens hold 4 weeks of doses, but in the USA the pens are single dose and a lot more expensive.

The prices in the OP are per month, so the format of the pen doesn't really matter. It's either for 4 single use pens like in the US or 1 multiple use pen like in the UK.

These prices are way off. I've been on it for three months. Most I've paid is 150

Oh wait are you not in UK?

@MummytoE the OP is in Sweden. Are you paying £150 per month in Sweden?

Yes,....ok no sorry I responded too quickly

If I had to choose from your list with those prices, I’d choose Wegovy. It’s effective and has proven health benefits. At those prices it’s not worth a 50% increase for Mounjaro in my opinion.

My DH is opposed to orlistat and mysimba. The first because he says It's like a form of aversion therapy. The second because it carries a suiide warning and I've been struggling with my mental health recently.

Actually, I agree with @Ermengarde, just noticed that the Wegovy is only £50 more than the Saxenda, but it's much more effective. And it's only a weekly injection rather than daily.

@MrTiddlesTheCat I agree with your DH, plus both are much less effective than the GLP-1 type medications.

Stop code spamming!
She's not in UK anyway!

There is a dedicated thread for posting codes. Please don't post them elsewhere, it's really annoying. Your post will be deleted.

That's insanely expensive for Mounjaro. Why so much more expensive in Sweden?