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

[Thisistotallygrim]

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.

@Yellowink

No need to be a dick about it

A newspaper would be better proof the risk of a convincing faked or photoshopped photo is pretty small.

Anyway the OP hasn't backed her newspaper assertion up with a acreenshot of the message so we don't know for sure what they've asked for

Oh we know! The op misunderstood or misread the message!

Why even write this? Why the need to be nasty? I hope it made you feel better about yourself 🙏

If you're going to the trouble of photoshopping an image a paper wouldn't be hard to do

How do we know, I don't see a post that says that

How will we know that's not photoshopped? Deception upon deception 😭

I meant the fact the op hasn’t posted the message and has swerved any question asking whether she was wrong… tells all! 😂

I was wondering earlier how people do papier-mâché now that newspapers are mostly online 😂

Get a paper, take a photo and then do some papier-mâché! Win win.

How can an adult never have bought a newspaper?

It's a piece of paper with the date on it & you do the full body shot using a mirror - Zava's email explains it

Why are they asking fir a full body photo after 6 months?
I thought you could carry in having MJ for years after reaching your ideal weight.

Starting to get confused there.

I said below I'm in my 30s and have never bought one. Why would I need to? The news has been online and we've had smartphones the entirety of my adult life.

Because that's the new rules. They want to check your current weight is accurate and you're not dropping too much below a healthy bmi. Mine have requested photos with every order so they can check my health and progress matches my claims.

Even prior to the guidance clarification, some pharmacies would ask for photos again after 6 months. Asda had that policy well before February this year.

@DarkForces get it!
Thats fair enough.

Thank you fir clarifying.

I had some meds that required a photo of a negative pregnancy test alongside a note with the date on, now that would be easy to fake!

🤣

But you could take a photo of you now (overweight) and pre write lots of dates on for the future and just use the one they asked for. The newspaper they can check the pics.

Indeed. I have tried this in different outfits and poses. There are no depths to which this fatty won't sink to get her expensive death/cheating fix...or maybe my prescriber might have been in touch if I wasn't actually benefiting from them and my weight remained the same as they wouldn't be working for me?

Only if you have a photo from the past where you were fat and you are holding a piece of paper that today's date could be edited on.

What are the chances people have old photos of themselves holding up pieces of paper?

But you could weigh yourself wearing a heavy backpack. It seems so easily faked!!

@tipsandtoes if your full length picture shows a physique at odds with what the scales say then the prescriber will question it.

@Shewantstogo

You also have to send full body pictures so guess not
But you don't have to send a picture of yourself on the scales showing the weight. They are all separate photos.

Weigh yourself wearing a massive backpack and show the number in the scale.
Photo yourself with something stuffed under your clothes.
Unless they insist you are naked.

It all seems so easy fur people to falsify