Underweight but has injections

[LushLemonTart]

A colleague is very thin. Quite tall. She said she's on weight loss injections and is back to her teenage weight.

How is she getting them? She's a lot younger than me and always tired. I've told her I'm worried about her. She's so lovely. She struggles to eat now.

Could she be stealing it from obese people?

Well, either she's lied to an online provider and fraudulently acquired them, or she's bought illegal or fake medication from a dodgy site, or she's persuaded somebody stupid who meets the prescribing criteria to apply for her and is using their prescription medication.

Or, she's diabetic and has been prescribed them for blood sugar control reasons.

@LushLemonTart hi there's people I k ow selling it to anyone e who's willing to pay I haven't heard any horror stories yet but it's not right maybe she's buying from someone like that 🤔

Huh? How would she do that then. And don’t you think they’d notice.

op, lots of hairdressers and the like selling knock off ozempic/wegovy. I’d assume it’s that.

She might be ambushing them with a weapon. Yes they probably do notice.

For sure she’s getting it off someone else who is either making a profit or her friend helping her out. However it’s none of your business.

You’ll see people asking on the threads on mn which pharmacies offer it without photos. They always say it’s because they don’t want to share images but I assume they are not overweight and are lying.

She’s lying to her provider.

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🤣🤣🤣

My thoughts entirely,

She's either lying to providers (getting harder) or buying them illegally.

Maybe she's taking them for a comorbidity and we only have the op's word for it that she's thin.

So she is treating her eating disorder with Ozempic. JFC.

This, There are private doctors prescribing these drugs for other reasons - hypertension, PCOS, metabolic disorders for example.

Yes, and I’ve noticed on here some people have lost sight of what a healthy weight is. There was a thread yesterday or the day before, where someone thought an underwear model was a teenager , simply as she was a healthy weight. Someone even wrote she wasn’t developed so had to be a child. The model was in her thirties.

I also recall a thread where someone had written complaining a clothing company was using anorexic models. When she posted an image it was of a perfectly normal weight woman. She was almost hysterical in her upset about the underweight model. Who was no such thing, visibly and obviously so.

ive also seen plenty of posts saying but a size 16 isn’t fat. It’s the average, so an 18 isn’t either, as it’s just one size about the average. When for most people, yes, a size 16 is overweight.

another poster proclaimed yesterday she wasn’t obese, even though her bmi was clearly obese. She simply refused to accept she was.

so it’s perfectly plausible. Assuming this isn’t some shit stirring goady attempt, that the woman the op refers to has a bmi of 27 and simply has health issues, ie sleep apnea, high blood pressure etc, and the op has a skewed sense of a healthy weight.

the whole she can barely eat stuff though makes me wonder.

Lots of thin people are getting them. If she wants to do this then she is an adult and is free to make her own choices.

You can buy them over the counter in UAE and Turkey, people bring them back and sell them.

I recently had a neighbour stop me on the street to say I needed to stop losing weight now, because it had gone far enough.

I've lost 76kg since February 2022 and gone from a size 34/36 to 18, but I'm certainly not skeletal.

I reassured her that I was still obese and she snorted derisively and said "who told you that?" When I said it was an objective reality based on having a BMI of 31 she sneered and refused to believe me.

Which is a long winded way of saying that not everyone is good at judging when someone is a healthy weight.

No you can’t. That’s a social media myth. You buy it like you do everywhere else, with a prescription, a private one.

Maybe she doesn't want to eat infront of scrutiny.

@Gettingslimmer , SIL just returned from Turkey after getting her teeth done with a 6 month supply of Semaglutide that she bought without a prescription.

No she's very thin. She said it's for weight loss. And she told us she can only manage a few mouthfuls of food. It's the constant tiredness that's worrying. There's other health issues too but don't want to go into details as too outing. If I didn't like her I wouldn't care. I can't say anything more ro her. I just said if she's worried about tiredness etc to think about seeing her GP. But she said GPS end up finding things and she's staying away.

I assume she's getting it illegally I just hope it isn't fake?

I know these injections are probably saving some people's lives. I just wanted to voice concerns as wouldn't discuss it with friends as it's her business. Work friends know.

I dint think any doctor would prescribe Ozempic and the likes to someone who is a healthy BMI (or lower!)
Yes it is used for high blood pressure - for people who are overweight and lowering their weight will mean lowering their BP.
Same with diabetes.
No doctor would prescribe it to someone who clearly has an ED

@LushLemonTart unfortunately, there is little you can do.
ED is a bugger and as a colleague, you have little means to help.