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...

Agreed. The lack of empathy is just startling.

It may have been better for you to ask rather than ask rudely and declare your pleasure. Many medicines are prescribed for multiple purposes, this medicine is prescribed for diabetes, and obesity and shortly for cardio vascular, liver and kidney disease , it is never been the case all medicines are only ever used to treat one health issues.

in this instance it is a prescribed medication for obesity, which is a long term chronic health condition you still suffer from even when your weight goes down. I don’t think anyone here wishes to educate you, google would be your friend. People getting it for obesity doesn’t stop diabetics also getting it, so your pleasure at people in difficulty is unpleasant however I accept it comes from a place of ignorance,

I guess this will show which users have used Mounjaro as a tool to retain their eating habits and which users will very soon be fat again.

Question for those of you eking out a higher dose pen. How do you do that? How do you administer less than the dose?

Yes I’m a member there! Never posted but I enjoy looking at the stories. I think there’s increasing knowledge about nutrition and diet now that makes maintaining easier and more achievable, and I also think that in the UK, we have access to better quality food generally than in the US, which is perhaps where a lot of the studies are done. UK is certainly an obeseogenic environment but the US is on another level in terms of cultural attitudes towards food and the proliferation of UPFs.

Of course, it’s more complicated than that, but sure.

I wish people would read the latest research on obesity before spouting off.

In the US because it is so massively unaffordable, unless you are very rich or have a prescription people use compounded semaglutide in place of the name drugs. They run at $150 a month vs the $1000+ for the real deal. The knock against them is that they aren't as well tested as the main drugs so there is a real risk taking them. It will be interesting to see if this comes to the UK market as an option. Personally, I've taken them and have seen real results. A lot of them are compounded by adding vitamin D or something to lessen nausea or something which is how they get around the rules here and can be sold.

I take 10mg from a 15mg pen which is 40 clicks. You change the clicks.

I then take the bonus dose so instead of 0.6ml I take 0.4ml for example

It's cool. It's a really difficult day.

Does anyone know if you can buy more than one pen with Asda ?

Thank you for explaining. There’s a young mum on Instagram, her names Kaylla McCullough Spencer and I like to pop into her page every so often. I can recall when she was on it she mentioned 1000 dollars a shot but I want sure if it was on insurance or if she paid for it, and just how many dose were in the one shot. We get 4 in a pen in the Uk.

The price of the shot made my eyes water regardless of how many doses were in it.

@ColinVsCuthbert the UK rules around prescription medication and Lilly holding the patent means that compounded medication would not be a possibility here.

I’ve not actually looked to compare as yet but Monj have a wegovy comparison site

igovy.co.uk/

You beat me to that. Sounds much more practical too

Wegovy is fantastic. No need to panic, make the switch if you can and price is a problem.

I've used Mounjaro as a tool to reset my eating habits but I would also probably regain a significant amount of weight if I came off it, because obesity is a disease. It's not a matter of being uneducated about food.

Count the clicks. 10 clicks is 2.5mg.

Count the clicks. 10 clicks is 2.5mg.

Some prices are showing as significantly higher on monj.co.uk than they were two hours ago when I checked to email my prescriber.

It's Trump! Or rather this has given Eli Lilly an excuse to up its prices.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ylppp2vj9o

Some people will be so happy about this news. They just hate us getting thin.

Show to who? Does someone need to see that?

@BabyCatFace @Moana987 Thanks! That’s good to know.

Do you have any links? While Mazdutide is being studied it’s not been submitted to the MHRA yet.

If you’re >30BMI, you will not be able to switch.