A calm and supportive thread to discuss the Price Increases: Mounjaro

[TryingAgainAgainAgain]

For anyone who would like a calmer place to share support and information about the price increases.

Thank you so much, that is very reassuring. I've not been aware of this. I'm trying really hard to be supportive of people who take MJ privately for weight issues as I know how hard it is to lose weight, but I'm taking it for medical reasons (diabetes) and it's been life changing.

Have just checked out the monj website and noticed that they have a wegovy site now too! Which is great as I was just thinking recently it would be good if there was one!

I asked the local pharmacy (today) where I go for mine about 5mg cost and he said it would be £180 there, which chimes with what others are saying. And this is a small place without heavy discounting so I think that looks like a likely price point.

Thank you @TryingAgainAgainAgain

Voy emailed to say that even when prices go up existing customers will be paying less than new ones. Interesting. They’ve also held prices until at least mid September they’ve said.

Anyone heard from Asda yet? Radio silence from them for me even though I ordered the day before and nothing on website. Annoying when so many other companies have commented.

@AnnaQuayInTheUk everyone who has a legitimate private prescription is taking it for medical reasons. It’s been life changing for me too. My BMI was 50 and I could barely walk or move. It’s now 28 and I run 3 times a week and walk for miles. The impact on my health is incredible. It’s great that it’s working well for you for diabetes too.

I had an email yesterday from Asda:
Important Update: Mounjaro Prices Are Changing
Eli Lilly, the manufacturers of Mounjaro, have recently announced they’re increasing the prices they’re charging for this treatment in the UK, starting Sept 1 2025. They will also be limiting the stock available until that date. This will affect any service in the UK currently offering Mounjaro treatment.

Please keep in mind that, because we know this change may be worrying or frustrating, we will do whatever we can to support you and help you continue on your weight loss journey.

In the coming weeks, we will continue to provide updates and let you know of any changes as they happen. We will also offer advice on how to keep your weight loss journey on track.

What this means for you:

As an existing patient, we want to show you we’re committed to providing you the best care possible by offering:

Priority access to all non-starter doses. We won’t be offering Mounjaro 5 to 15mg to any patients new to Asda Online Doctor, only to existing patients like yourself as long as our current stock lasts.
Your treatment requests are reviewed first. We’re making sure treatment requests coming from existing patients are processed before others.
Current pricing offered throughout August. As long as you request treatment before September 1 and stocks last (see our website for current stock status), you’ll only pay our existing prices.
A price guarantee on any treatment requests placed under our current price structure. When prices on our website change in the coming weeks, it will not affect any treatment requests made prior to the changes. Treatment requests remain subject to clinical review.

How to stay informed

You don’t need to do anything, we’ll keep on sending you updates as and when we have them. Just look out for any similar emails we send you going forward. You can also check in with our Mounjaro price change FAQs page for more information on when this change is happening and advice on how you can handle it.
The ASDA Online Doctor team

@NaturalBlondeYeahRight I am in the same position, I ordered a 10mg pen yesterday and apart from the confirmation email I’ve just had one email about it taking 4 to 6 days for the doctor review. Nothing else. The website now says that 10 and 12.5mg are out of stock.

https://onlinedoctor.asda.com/uk/faq-mounjaro-price-update.html

I don’t know if that means those doses are out of stock for subsequent orders, or in general. I’m hoping they mean for anyone trying to order from now on, and not people who had orders accepted yesterday.

@AnnaQuayInTheUk there’s no difference if you’re being prescribed it for Obesity or Diabetes. Both are medical reasons it’s licensed for.

Thankyou so much I’m really worried about these increases so wish to somehow prepare if possible….so grateful to you.

Hi @SilenceInside sorry, I didn't mean to sound dismissive. I'm so pleased it's working for you. My dad was obese (and the developed T2 diabetes!) and would have really benefitted from this had it been available before he died.

ETA and I'm very impressed with the running! My BMI is 22 and I can't run to save my life.

Thankyou for posting I think we are all fretting!

I would love to use your referral code but the link doesn't work for me. It just takes me to their website to register

@AThousandCaloriesToTheBad
You couldn't be more wrong but I can't be bothered to get into a row about oushk here, now. I'm not sure why you think your 'impression' is something we all need to hear right now.

BTW, as I've seen criticism of Hira's emotional video after the news came in ( and i can't be arsed to go look if it was you), Dr Mel who's the prescriber at Pharmulous, one of the most highly rated pharmacies on SM, was also emotional when she did a live to customers. Some pharmacists do actually care and not everything is about money.

@SilenceInside@SecretIrnBruDrinker thank you - wonder why I haven’t had email yet, I’ve been with them for about 18 months. I’ve just got the ‘pending for review’ as well. Hopefully after the weekend it (everything) might become clearer.

@NaturalBlondeYeahRight I’m a bit nervous about it as I am a returning customer but haven’t ordered with them for several months now, so I wonder if they will count that as not a new customer. They have recently been sending me emails detailing their reduced pricing - not any more I suppose! - to try to entice me back to ordering with them.

Please could you send me the referral code?

I've just ordered 10 mg from Bolt - on the home page it says it's out of stock but my order has been accepted. It was £160. Do you think they're saving it for regular customers rather than switchers?

Very happy to join a calmer thread with less of a 'main character' vibe 😂

I am very fortunate in that I am pretty much at goal - having been on MJ a long time. Maybe another 10lbs should do it. I am upset about the price increase because I really thought I would probably take years to come off MJ - if at all. It's saved my life and I thought it might be the thing that kept the weight off.

However, I've replanned and have budgeted for the new prices for another 10 pens on top of the ones I already have (no panic buying, just a constant sense of dread that meant I liked to have a float), working back down through the doses. That should give me almost a year more to try and maintain my loss. If that doesn't work at any point then I will have to rethink and look at my options then.

For anyone who has to stop (like me) did you titrate down? If you just stop, is there likely to be problems?

on taking it every 10 days and the golden dose, on some of the websites it’s says they watch how often you order as they don’t recommend taking the golden dose and they could even stop prescriptions? Is this true? So if your ordered every 6 weeks say would they cancel your prescription?

I agree with you, but there are a number of people who are using MJ who are not obese or diabetic.

I only know 2 people who are openly using MJ. Neither of them are obese or diabetic. Both are trying to get down from a Size 12 to a Size 8. Neither of them have ever had a BMI over 30 and I'm fairly sure one of them has never had a BMI of over 25.

I ordered my pen as usual today and I’m happy to sit it out and wait till all the media noise dies down. I’ve accepted the price will go up and I’ll rearrange some stuff to accommodate it but I don’t see any point in panicking.

Thank you for the nice, calm thread.

p.s. Reddit gets a bad rep but some of subreddits are actually pretty good, informative and much more supportive than mn can be at times. There are mounjaro specific subreddits if anyone has a fancy for that kind of thing.

That's the reason I started the original thread in the first place - reddit already knew about the new prices before anywhere else seemed to.