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...

I am in an incredibly lucky position where I’m at home and I’m starting a job next week where there’s huge potential for wage growth within a few months. So fingers crossed I can keep going!

So you live in the UK and genuinely believe that the NHS provides whatever people need in a timely fashion, no problem at all? You can't recall a single time when then hasn't been the case? Curious.

I started on Wegovy and lost 4 stone in a year. I swapped to mounjaro as knew Wegovy was only approved for two years. I had to start on lowest dose of mounjaro and am now up to 12.5mg but weight loss has been minimal so far. Not sure if you swap the other way round if you have to start back at the beginning again but if so you may find you have a lengthy plateau until you work up to the higher strengths.

Cracking up thinking of the nurses who told me two weeks ago to use ChatGPT if I had post op questions because the consultant is too busy to be able to answer them 🤣

I think you need to go back and read their posts from the start.

What are you EVEN talking about
this makes zero sense

If that’s the case I can’t even begin to think what it have to pay if I continue to source it in the UK but I suspect it would be about 550 pounds. That amount would be more expensive than what it costs here which is currently 450, an amount I was determined not to pay as I felt the pharmacy owner was profiteering and I wasn’t going to let him get fat on my fat. But it seems I may have to very grudgingly let him get fat on my fat for the few months I have left on the drug and it’s a case of so be it.

I am very concerned about others, though something is telling me this is just a bump in the road for those on Mounjaro and people will get to the end of their journey as planned. ^^

Thank you for this Marsha.

I know we shouldn’t expect anything less, but it hurts my soul a bit that some people are enjoying this.

Imagine actually feeling that way about another human being and their struggles. All because some people are fat. It really is seen as the worst possible thing you can be. Some of these people will have daughters. What a messed up place to be in your head.

If this was about people with anorexia, and there was a jab that made their thoughts and feelings go away, made them eat, and it was going to be taken away, the responses would be different. Or would they just be told to eat more? I doubt it. No empathy or feeling is reserved for fat people. Fat women especially. They deserve it. Stupid fat people. They need to suffer for their sin.

I know we take the piss with the bingo card bla bla bla - but this really is insidious stuff.

Glad I’m not like that. Genuinely.

Thinking of us all tonight.

Don’t forget, Oushk are some of the more expensive ones x

And she still will be. Clearly her perception of herself and others is skewed. If she is slim already nothing will change unless it's an arms race she is imagining herself in

This is totally correct. Oushk are small so they probably don't have the clout to negotiate the deals that the likes of med express do.

Med express sent email today warning of this.

Wrong on both counts.

If this was about people with anorexia, and there was a jab that made their thoughts and feelings go away, made them eat, and it was going to be taken away, the responses would be different. Or would they just be told to eat more? I doubt it. No empathy or feeling is reserved for fat people.

100% agree. Same if HRT was suddenly taken away, or anxiety medication. Or god forbid ADHD medication from their children. There would be utter outage, pandemonium and upset, but when it comes to obesity everyone afflicted must suffer. It’s a nasty, patriarchal attitude that has engulfed so many, especially women, some of whom are more terrified of ever being fat than of pretty much anything else. It’s pathetic.

If Trump has done this because he thinks Americans are paying too much, does this mean the prices are going to go down in America ? or just that the prices are going to go up everywhere else ?

I was just about to start, night I'm going to hold off until there's more information, and probably look into wegovy instead.

Just heard on the radio - prices will double, half the people privately buying will have to stop, so pharmacies will not be out of pocket, they'll break even

@HansHolbein it's always disappointing to come face-to-face with the fact that some people are just absolutely scummy human beings, without intelligence, wit, empathy, sympathy or any form of humanity. or as I call them for brevity's sake "utter cunts".

Sadly and predictably many of them have shown up here with their witless drivel. Just be grateful that you are not like them, being a decent and kind person.

It sounds like they’ll still be getting a hefty discount though. Seems a bit of everything with Eli Lily at this point. They’ll have the tiny pharmacies paying list price, which means that they don’t have to cut costs as far in America, while also maintaining a client base here.

Absolute conjecture at this point

Why are people buying it privately if it's available on the NHS? Are they already slim?

Because as has been stated in this thread, you have to have four separate comorbitities before the NHS will prescribe. I’m sure you already know this though.

No, its because it very tightly controlled on the NHS as to who actually can get it

The NHS isnt made of money, these drugs are expensive and they are doing a slow roll out.

To get it via the NHS you have to have a BMI of above 30 - PLUS two weight related disorders/conditions at this time

Not every obese person falls into that category

Nope hence me asking. Sorry for not reading 27 pages to get an answer to my very specific question...