Instead of ‘I won’t be able to afford it’ why are people not considering Wegovy

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Just curious as I have read so many posts about how awful the price hike is - I agree. But, this doesn’t have to be the end for people who are not be able to keep going on MJ, lots will be able to try Wegovy if they haven’t already used it and decided it’s not for them.

I know it’s scary just now, I use MJ and will have to rework things once we know the pricing to see if I can still afford it but my next thought has always been ‘if not I will try Wegovy’

Lets not all be defeated before trying the other option.

I lost 3 stone on Wegovy in 2024, it’s still very effective. I would say MJ has slightly less side effects.

I strongly agree from duty of care point of view.

I'm expecting Novo Nordisk to follow Eli Lily in due course, that is my main consideration in not thinking about that too much at the moment. I'm lucky in that I have 3 pens in stock so I can wait and see how things play out a bit.

Mounjaro at the price I’m currently paying is worth it, I won’t pay more though because I can’t afford to. I’ll try Weygovy but if it’s not as effective I might decide it’s better being overweight. I think if enough people stop buying it, and I think they will if the price rises are significant, the. they will drop the price again soon, once Trump has moved on to something else.

Stopping GLP 1 meds isn’t dangerous though, so what’s duty of care are we thinking?

For me, I watch media storms like this and the cynic in me wonders if it’s a way to create profit for big pharma. Everyone panics and then when the real prices come out, breathe a sigh of relief that it’s ’not as bad as I thought’ and then happily pay the excess. That IS a strategy some companies use.

I expect many suppliers will strike a deal and the end costs will be more, but unlikely to be the hugely inflated prices the media is reporting. Price hikes like those would significantly reduce demand and the manufacturer knows this. I stand to be proven wrong but for the time being, I won’t be reacting in a panic.

As for Wegovy, the research shows it to be less effective than Mounjaro because it works on one hormone whereas MJ works on two. If the prices did triple then it’s obviously an option but then, I’d expect the companies would shift the prices of Wegovy too. Pharmaceutical companies produce drugs which help save and repair lives but ultimately they exist for the profit of their shareholders.

I'm not considering a switch because, before trying Mounjaro I'd previously tried Saxenda and didn't get on with it at all. Had horrible gastric side effects and didn't lose any weight. I know Wegovy is a different drug, but Mounjaro has worked so brilliantly well for me in comparison to Saxenda, I don't want to switch from something effective with no (bad) side effects to something new.
luckily I'm approaching goal so will just suck up the increased price for the rest of my time on it.

Not read thread sorry but in answer to op.

Side effects a minor issue for me but mainly my problem is the lack of a solution to keeping the weight off. Losing a lot off weight is actually not a problem for me, I have done it several times in my life .

I have been through about 5 periods of 4-10 months on successful weight loss programmes in my 50 years of adult life yet I am still morbidly obese at 61. Every single time I lose a lot of weight, no matter how I do it, I am as fat as before in the same time or a bit longer time than it took me to lose it in the first place

I have used slow but steady weight loss programmes and more extreme ones ones but none worked in the long term

I am not sure how drugs will be any different

So were you planning to stay on MJ long term?

Stopping the meds themselves is not dangerous. But returning to obesity (which this medication will prevent for many people) has significant health risks.

The duty of care is the ongoing treatment of obesity as a disease (recognised as a disease by the WHO).

Think of it as being no different to stopping high blood pressure meds, it is not immediately dangerous in itself, but when your blood pressure rises again the associated risks of uncontrolled high blood pressure long term return.

Many people struggle to see the comparison between obesity meds and high blood pressure meds as they don't see obesity as a disease, but a failing instead - that is an unqualified and uninformed mindset.

No I am not on them at all. Just realised I have misread the title as a question as to why I am not taking weightless drugs but I see it is about one drug vs another. Just ignore my post then as it is probably not relevant. Sorry

It's more expensive with my current provider than monjroro is

I might have said this on another thread, and if I didnt I meant to and will probably repeat myself across threads (#boring) but this is the consequences for people of the NHS not properly listening to new advances, not using that to treat the population properly, not using it to prevent other issues and leaving patients at the mercy of chops and changes in availability and affordability

Its disgraceful in my view

Im not on it, so no skin in the game.

But Mounjaro is about to go up, which makes Wegovy an option, surely?

I think it will just bring the two in line with one another?

I am in exactly the same place!

@Fairfaxandflavor hi, I'm interested in what other changes you've been able to make on MJ, could you say a bit more please?

You would think
But somehow I managed to get with the most expensive provider and I've been paying around £280 a month already
So I'm hoping to switch to a cheaper provider,once the costs settle down ,and hopefully not pay much more

What happened with Ozempic? That was all the range one time.

I'm not on these, my sister is (Mounjaro) and she's going mad at the moment. I'm afraid to ask her anything.

Me too. Wegovy is inferior to Mounjaro in my mind, I’m absolutely fucking furious at how greedy the pharmaceutical companies are being but I’m going to have to find the extra money to keep going for now.

Wegovy will probably also become more expensive. Why wouldn’t they raise their price too?

Ozempic was the first weight loss med to come out, mounjaro is an improvement on that as its works in more ways to combat weight and insulin resistance issues, researchers have found people loose more weight on Mounjaro

Wegovy is Ozempic. They're different names for the same thing.

One solution is the NHS expand their currently, very narrow, qualifying criteria.

I think this is outrageous greed ( excuse the pun) by the drug company and the prescribers. People will suffer harm. Possible class action legal case incoming?