Asked for picture of me holding up today's paper!

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Has this happened to anyone else? Medexpress won't prescribe my Mounjaro (which I've been on for 6 months) unless I send a pic of me holding a paper with todays date. How ridiculous is that?

So I have to buy a paper which I've never done, send a pic of myself holding it, which means I need someone else to take the picture, and after doing that how on earth can they see the newspaper date if the pic needs to be a full body?

I'm wondering if anyone else has done this?
Thinking of jumping ship with Medexpress as they are very slow and now asked me to do this.

From the replies to this thread jt would need to be her friends nan as only boomers buy papers

How does it prove nothing?

Because you can write any date on any piece of paper and it doesn't mean that is today's date???

In Feb the government announced they were introducing stricter guidance to ensure people getting weight loss injections were eligible.

This’ll be why there is a sudden uplift in online pharmacies requiring accurate proof.

But you’d only write the date you were told to/todays date down?

unless a year ago when you were heavier you planned for this occasion by spending a day taking photos of you holding a piece of paper for every day of the year for the next few years I guess?

Good Lord, they made you buy a newspaper, that's awful, sending love and prayers.

You could write any date on a piece of paper. You could write the previous week's date, take a photo and claim you didn't get anything. A printed newspaper is much more concrete evidence as it can be validated.

My prescriber is talking about 5min video consults where you show photo ID and standing on scales while on the call. It is my idea of hell, it is going to be awkward as hell, but then standing topless and having my boobs squished between two plates was awkward as hell on Friday too.

It is a medical consultation and they need to ensure each patients identity and diagnose them as obese before prescribing an obesity medication. They were not doing that sufficiently before and most pharmacies will have extra requirements from existing patients to ensure they haven't prescribed incorrectly before 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is for all patients protection.

I’d like to see the prescribing guidelines include the overweight BMI category, not just obese.

This. That's what they asked me to do. And you can easily take a photo standing in front of a mirror. Not exactly rocket science...

Did you write the date backwards so it was the right way round in the mirror? Or do cameras also make mirror images so it would reverse the mirror effect? 😁

Perfectly acceptable, I had to do it last week even though I’ve done it multiple times in the past. I just wrote the date on a piece of paper and took the photos. I wasn’t even getting the injections, I needed a break from the side effects and struggling with the cost so giving orlists a go.

They need to check you are the current weight you say you are.

They are also tightening the way people buy online because of people lying and others complaining it’s too easy to get these meds.

This.

It's not hard or complicated or ridiculous.

Or tell their husbands to sit on their shoulders for a second.

Yes but unless you know they're going to ask for the picture in the first place there's no way you can forward date it, so the picture would be at least "today" old.

That's a fair point.
My background is in verifying documents, etc. and in that field, it wouldn't be acceptable as it has potential to be exploited for fraud.
Clearly, dispensing medication is different, and I stand corrected.

I agree it does seem like something easily exploited!

I’m as tickled by the OP thinking they meant a newspaper as I am by PPs suggesting you stride into Tesco in your undies to take a pic and save yourself £2.

I don't understand this and you could write any date on it??!

You'd struggle to see into the future and match the weight you're claiming to the day's date to plan a Machiavellian deception to get a jab.

Why would you do that, they want to see a piece of paper with 2 March 25 written on it. In what circumstance would you write a different date?

Of course it “proves” something

think about it.

The date on the piece of paper will need to match the date the customer submits the photo or will need to match the date the company asks to be displayed

I don’t think @iamnotalemon understands what the company is asking

@Yellowink

No need to be rude.

Personally I don't think it proves anything- a newspaper would make more sense.

well this post demonstrates you don’t understand