I'd love to know what Eli Lilly's UK market intelligence was when they were making their pricing decision. There is definitely a price that consumers can't bear. I assume it's not just market share that concerns them but also quickly growing the counterfeit market in the UK. We are less exposed to it than much of the rest of the world. People buying it from their hairdressers tend to be getting stuff that is very clearly NOT MJ whereas scarily convincing fakes are now in the pharmacy distribution process in the US for example. There was an excellent article about it in the Economist (I think) and I came away feeling relieved that our reasonable pricing was protecting us a bit.
I'm now capable of eating more in one go but nothing like as much as I could eat through the day before. Two meals is my absolute limit, and that's at the end of a fortnight on 5mg. I now quite fancy the odd glass of wine rather than being totally indifferent to it but it'll take me an hour to drink. And this has been my summer of ice cream after years and years of avoiding most sweet things because I feel I can now allow myself treats. My kids love that I now join in and like to think of new flavours for me to try. I could genuinely see myself eating like this for life - I don't feel deprived in any way but I can easily now pass for 'normal', especially if you catch me on the random day when I do feel insatiably hungry! I've had two short holidays over the summer, eaten and drunk exactly what I wanted on both, and put on about 2lbs each time, which disappeared as soon as I went back to my regular way of eating.
My hope, vain thought it will probably turn out to be, is that I can use the last four 5mg pens I have to gradually space out my dosage more and more and see whether I am able to go totally without. (My nervousness is what would happen if I couldn't and I wasn't able to go back on 2.5mg, probably like the rest of us - bring on the pills!).