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Another calm and supportive thread to discuss the Price Increases: Mounjaro THREAD TWO

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TryingAgainAgainAgain · 21/08/2025 21:17

Keep calm and carry on discussing The Pendemic…

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CoverMeInMarmalade · 26/08/2025 16:55

WeAllHaveWings · 26/08/2025 16:39

Oushk have sent out their prices with a code for £15 off.

Maintenance will have a code for flat £20 off (instead of %), but no longer free P&P.

Worth noting that these prices look to be AFTER the £15 code has been applied. On the website they are £15 higher.

The £20 for maintenance appears to be this £15 + another £5 - which is why it is only £5 cheaper in the table.

FurForksSake · 26/08/2025 16:58

Not loving those prices, but I’ll suck it up due to being in maintenance and I doubt another pharmacy will be easy to switch to.

BabyCatFace · 26/08/2025 17:02

So with Oushk if I buy a 15mg pen at £310 (inc postage) on maintenance and use it to administer 10mg per week the monthly cost will be £179 a month. If they change the pen design so that it only contains 4 doses that will cost £224 a month to administer 10mg from a 15mg pen.

BabyCatFace · 26/08/2025 17:03

So with Oushk if I buy a 15mg pen at £310 (inc postage) on maintenance and use it to administer 10mg per week the monthly cost will be £179 a month. If they change the pen design so that it only contains 4 doses that will cost £224 a month to administer 10mg from a 15mg pen. Thats 6 weeks since first use for a 4 dose pen and 7.5 weeks for a 5 dose pen.

Ihavesomeballs · 26/08/2025 17:07

My usual supplier has no stock of the 5mg stock! I'm only 4kg off my target weight. Should I drop to 2.5mg as they have stock of that one? I have insulin resistance, but I cannot afford these price hikes! Help.......🤷

ThatCyanSheep · 26/08/2025 17:14

CoverMeInMarmalade · 26/08/2025 16:55

Worth noting that these prices look to be AFTER the £15 code has been applied. On the website they are £15 higher.

The £20 for maintenance appears to be this £15 + another £5 - which is why it is only £5 cheaper in the table.

Oh my god. That’s awful!

WeAllHaveWings · 26/08/2025 17:17

Oushk prices without the £15/£20 discount applied (picture)

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ThatCyanSheep · 26/08/2025 17:19

Unless they’re planning on running monthly codes for £15 off, that’s really, really shit of them. They’re pulling people in and then admitting their prices are actually higher than they’re advertising

Claudette7934 · 26/08/2025 17:54

I think the drugs companies (and some pharmacies) are utterly unscrupulous. It’s like the OxyContin scandal. Get as many people on these drugs, ramp them up through the dosages and then put the price up.

Whilst I appreciate they have to make money, there should also be an ethical and moral dimension. It’s capitalism at its very worst.

CoverMeInMarmalade · 26/08/2025 18:25

ThatCyanSheep · 26/08/2025 17:19

Unless they’re planning on running monthly codes for £15 off, that’s really, really shit of them. They’re pulling people in and then admitting their prices are actually higher than they’re advertising

Yeah, it's a terrible way of announcing their new prices tbh and it seems to have confused people who are thinking (hoping) they can take £20 off those prices for maintenance.

They always did have frequent discount codes so I'm guessing they might still - but who knows.

VelociraptorsVelociRapping · 26/08/2025 18:28

WeAllHaveWings · 26/08/2025 16:39

Oushk have sent out their prices with a code for £15 off.

Maintenance will have a code for flat £20 off (instead of %), but no longer free P&P.

Are Oushk increasing their Wegovy prices?

PresidentBarklett · 26/08/2025 18:30

They've clarified the codes will be ongoing monthly so the website price won't have to be paid. Oushk, that is. Bloody amateur hour email - confused a lot of people.

WeAllHaveWings · 26/08/2025 18:34

@CoverMeInMarmalade they have said in the Circle group that the £15/£20 discounts are pretty much permanent like before.

Looking at the other providers that have given prices so far it looks like they are pitched a bit higher than the mid they were before.

They did imply in an impromptu 15 minute live that they will try to reduce, didn't sound like they are doing the Eli Lilly rebate scheme yet (as it is in arrears and don't think they have the cash flow to support it), perhaps that is something that might come in time if they can negotiate with Eli Lilly or their wholesalers different payment terms to buffer the delay in the rebate.

They are doing another live tomorrow at 6pm to answer any questions.

PistachioTiramisuLimoncello · 26/08/2025 18:34

What’s the price increase?

CoverMeInMarmalade · 26/08/2025 18:35

Thanks @WeAllHaveWings - makes sense. Yes, they are a more expensive now than a number of pharmacies seem to have announced.

As always, we shall just have to wait and see and get on the best we can in the meantime.

PistachioTiramisuLimoncello · 26/08/2025 18:35

Claudette7934 · 26/08/2025 17:54

I think the drugs companies (and some pharmacies) are utterly unscrupulous. It’s like the OxyContin scandal. Get as many people on these drugs, ramp them up through the dosages and then put the price up.

Whilst I appreciate they have to make money, there should also be an ethical and moral dimension. It’s capitalism at its very worst.

Of course they are unscrupulous!

CoverMeInMarmalade · 26/08/2025 18:37

PistachioTiramisuLimoncello · 26/08/2025 18:34

What’s the price increase?

Comparing for Oushk (minus any discount codes then or now) it looks like they have gone up by...
2.5mg = £34
5mg = £40
7.5mg = £84
10mg = £110
12.5mg = £120
15mg = £136

Itscoldouthere · 26/08/2025 18:40

Not great for us on maintenance as we’ve also lost free postage, I think I’ll be sticking at 5, but using 2.5 or less in the long run, or I may switch to Wegovy, I will see what other maintenance pharmacies charge as well, if you can switch with a BMI under 23?

QueenOfHiraeth · 26/08/2025 18:47

Claudette7934 · 26/08/2025 17:54

I think the drugs companies (and some pharmacies) are utterly unscrupulous. It’s like the OxyContin scandal. Get as many people on these drugs, ramp them up through the dosages and then put the price up.

Whilst I appreciate they have to make money, there should also be an ethical and moral dimension. It’s capitalism at its very worst.

BigPharma and morals don't even belong in the same sentence, however...

I have some sympathy for Lilly and the medical/clinical establishment as the whole GLP1 market is a shitshow and they have been trying to rein it in with stricter guidelines, regulations and inspections with very little success.
In the UK, use of prescribed medication has always been closely controlled by the NHS and prescribers. When the prices were set for the UK they were considerably lower than the rest of the world which has led to a scramble akin to a gold rush by pharmacies who have, apparently, in their rush to hit big money, broken professional guidelines right, left and centre in some cases (e.g. selling outside the UK, supplying more frequently than 4-weekly, inadequate checks for eligibility, procedures to prevent ordering from multiple companies not enforced, etc) while some users, with no clinical qualifications and, seemingly, very little intelligence have been spamming social media with "advice" on unapproved dosage schedules and using the drug outside of the terms of the product license as well as not eating and poor lifestyle advice. Even on MN we have seen posts about people sharing pens, buying from others, living overseas but buying here and all sorts of behaviours outside of the reasonable tweaks we might all make quietly for ourselves.
The whole thing is an unseemly debacle and Mounjaro is not being treated with the respect people normally have for prescribed medication.

In the USA the private medication market is controlled, largely, by insurance and high prices so it will be interesting to see if these changes rein it in at all where stricter guidance and inspection has not.
I am obviously sorry, though, for those people who have been using this sensibly and now find themselves priced out through no fault of their own.

QueenOfHiraeth · 26/08/2025 18:49

In other news, Swift Doctor prices are out but they are still not accepting new patients for the time being while they ensure their regular customers are all provided for

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ThatCyanSheep · 26/08/2025 18:50

CoverMeInMarmalade · 26/08/2025 18:25

Yeah, it's a terrible way of announcing their new prices tbh and it seems to have confused people who are thinking (hoping) they can take £20 off those prices for maintenance.

They always did have frequent discount codes so I'm guessing they might still - but who knows.

They have the two that always worked but aside from that you had to be quite lucky to find one

WeAllHaveWings · 26/08/2025 18:52

Ouskh before and after for customers and maintenance (with fixed discounts and their steep £6.99 P&P where applicable before and after) - picture

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CroissantChops · 26/08/2025 18:55

Oushk stand to lose a lot of custom over their handling of this along with coming out pricier than a lot of other pharmacies so far

ThatCyanSheep · 26/08/2025 18:56

CroissantChops · 26/08/2025 18:55

Oushk stand to lose a lot of custom over their handling of this along with coming out pricier than a lot of other pharmacies so far

I’ll be moving away.

Firstly they said £320 max, then they email £310, then it’s actually £325? Bizarre behaviour

WeAllHaveWings · 26/08/2025 18:57

CroissantChops · 26/08/2025 18:55

Oushk stand to lose a lot of custom over their handling of this along with coming out pricier than a lot of other pharmacies so far

I think a lot of the mid/high end of the table will as those that wanted to stay for the pinkness "customer service" their purses might not be able to cope.

Many are still talking about moves to Wegovy.