Big price increases?

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Anyone else seen this chatter about massive price increases announced for MJ (to pharmacies) in the last hour or so?

Very concerning as it looks like it could double the cost of some of the doses. I'll try to find the copy of the letter sent out...

@PeopleWatching17 if you are prescribed Mounjaro from your GP, which is very very unlikely, then you pay the standard prescription charge. So it might be free if you don't pay for prescriptions. The NHS has only recently (within the last couple of months) started to prescribe Mounjaro via GPs, and will only do so if your BMI is greater than 40 and you have at least 4 out of 5 specific weight related health conditions. So very small numbers.

The rest of us pay for a private prescription. Over a million people, or more, is the current estimation.

Yeah I’m gutted. I’d decided to go up to 15 anyway but this cemented it.

Everything is about to go tits up.

Feeling so blessed to have the voice of reason and calm on here in the form of @LifeOfAShowGirl 🙄

This is awful news - I intended to be on MJ for the long term now I am on maintenance but will need to rethink. I have bought two extra pens from Oushk as I have one due for delivery for tomorrow and have my three and will then try switching to Wegovy to see if I get the same noise reduction benefit. I feel incredibly lucky to have benefited from the price I have paid so far and send 🫂 to everyone who is worrying. I think MJ has been life changing for me and I am so grateful.

I’m on 12.5 and pretty much at goal. Have another 12.5 in the fridge. Just ordered a 10, 7.5 and a 5. Guess this will force me to titrate down a bit quicker than I’d planned.

It has been amazing for me so I feel desperately sorry for those at the beginning of their journey.

So you seriously think the 17 largest drugs manufacturers in the world are going to accept huge profit losses? Most of them won’t be as generous to the NHS as Eli Lilly have been with their Mounjaro pricing.

This is on the BBC news on the radio now

I lost the majority of my 9 and half stone loss on Ozempic/Wegovy and only switched to MJ for the last bit/maintenance because of the two year prescribing limit. If I could have got it for maintenance I would have happily stayed on it. They need to change the guidelines to accommodate longer-term use I think.

I know it is considered inferior to MJ but I found it incredible and as I said lost the majority of my weight on it.

This is very upsetting news for people and I hope we can all find a way through it.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/lilly-hike-uk-price-mounjaro-weight-loss-drug-by-170-2025-08-14/

I am obese and pre type 2 diabetic. Was going to but MJ to try to reverse the inevitable type 2 ( all my siblings, parents etc have type 2, some are not even overweight). So with family history, age, obesity and having had gestational diabetes I thought I would but some.

with price increases, I will now just wait until I am officially type 2 diabetes and then it will be free. Hoping for a few more years before get to that stage.

I was actually planning on doing my first order/looking for approval tonight 🤦🏻‍♀️. I'd been reading everything for some months and decided I could finally be ok to sustain the cost for life if necessary. I could stretch to higher prices possibly; through cutting things back elsewhere. But I don't know.

I think there's going to be so much competition in the next few years, as pp said also from Lilly's own pill but I don't know what to think overall. I was so psyched up and happy with my decision 😑

Just get wegovy instead, it has very good research to back it.

Shit. I was hoping to be able to start a maintenance plan very soon. I won't have time before I do an order.

I think I might order some 15 pens to stockpile with a view to making them last, I have another 12.5 to use, can hopefully stay there and stretch them by click counting and then titrate down once I hit target (a stone more tops).

I was talking to someone in the US (last year on a holiday) and her pharma company were charging her $1500 per month!
I think the UK has been quite cheap in comparison (to US and Europe)- but this is a real squeeze by the manufactures.

Problem is not everyone will be able to get it because many of us will have brought our BMIs down far enough that we don't fit the prescribing criteria for new meds any longer.

I actually tried Wegovy before Mounjaro, and it was basically ineffective for me. I won't be the only one.

I'm not sure you will get it right away if you get diagnosed with Type 2. You will probably be put on Metformin for a good long while before you get a GLP-1 type medication. Wishing you all the best to reverse your prediabetes.

It’s working for me.

Thanks.
would be happy with metformin, however in my pregnancies it didn’t work and I had to be on insulin.
i am doing everything I can to avoid the type 2, but the consultant said it was a matter of when ….

It’s also not guaranteed that wegovy won’t be involved. I don’t think people realise the gravity of this

I lost 4lbs in 8 weeks on Wegovy (versus 31.5lbs in 15 weeks after moving to MJ). There no way I'd ever try Wegovy again.

I'm only half way there so I'll have to find a way to fund the increased cost as I just cannot go back. And therein lies the trap, many of us won't be able to afford it and some of us will probably end up in debt / poverty to afford it. Such is the significance and difference its made to many lives.

Yeah sometimes its just your genetics :( I'm somewhat in the same boat my mum and brother are both type 2 and I'm headed that way.

I get mine from boots too. I accepted the inflated price (just!) because I can get the pen delivered to a local branch and collect on way home from work when needed. There’s no one at home to accept deliveries during the day, most other pharmacies all said home deliveries only, can’t be left anywhere as it needs refrigeration.
NO way will I be able to keep with MJ if Boots go up to £300-400 😱
I've only got about 10-12lbs to go…..but I’m a slow plodder so would be another 2-3 months yet. Was starting to think about reducing, but worried my loss would cease completely……..

Way to show your total ignorance on the subject.

Can we all agree just to not respond to the thinking challenged idiots that keep popping up? Don’t give them air.