Why? Why so difficult to save

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Why can d15count c0des no longer be shared on a forum here. What’s the problem? If genuine suppl1er, why can we all save money together. It seems ever since I began WLI things have come along to make it more and more difficult elitest!
They are likely needed for life, only available on NHS for select few. We saw a major price hike September 2025. Pen design change (making it cost more as a consequence for those who use 5th dose to make affordable). It feels like sabotage in the same way as putting chocolate bars near the tills and fresh health food expensive further away.

Anyone have solutions?

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The pharmacies I've used said you're not allowed to share on a public forum so apart from anything else I guess MN are complying.

It’s not legal to advertise prescription only medication. The risk with people putting codes online is that they will name a specific medication and then be advertising a POM. The pharmacies know this and there will be terms in the referral schemes that say you can’t publicise your code/link and it should be for genuine friends and family. MN can’t knowingly allow that kind of advertising to happen, hence the rules that codes will be deleted.

I am not suggesting posting codes on a thread or for public use, besides a link to code does not equate to prescription. Someone would still need to go through normal pharmacy prescribing checks so make no difference to access or safety. For those in a joint community who are already on this medication, and a same aim to stay on it as long as we can afford it, why can’t codes be mentioned and then only shared through private messages?

It seem the WLI industry is set on getting on it but seemly unaffordable for many to continue. How much do we genuinely think the medication and drugs cost??

The individual pharmacies are not responsible for the law on this, they have to comply with that law. They always should have been complying with it, but many were lax or not aware that codes/links were being widely posted online.

I think you can still ask for referrals and get them via PM though? As far as I’m aware MN haven’t banned that.

You can’t ask, posts asking directly get deleted and besides, it seems people have moved on from this approach now. For a long time, this is how many people made it affordable, getting new referral codes from others. Now this doesn’t seem done.

I guess there’s two approaches, go with a permanently low price pharmacy and not have to get referrals each month, or go with the potentially much higher price pharmacy if you don’t manage to get a referral each month.

Medicine MarketPlace is only a few pounds more than Numan’s prices once the £100 discount has been taken off, and no worry about needing a referral each time.

I agree with SilenceInside - the pharmacies that offer referral codes tend to start from a higher base price so although it feels like a bargain you are still paying basically the same price in the end. Might as well go with a supplier who is more transparent with their pricing and avoid the faff of codes.

My take on it is that code sharing make me question the validity of a poster’s advice and recommendation as they stand to gain from it. I am grateful it was stamped out here as it used to dominate the threads.

i have a lot of sympathy, the cost is extortionate, prohibitive and unfair. However MLM style pushing for prescription medication should never have been a solution. I started my journey last spring just as that all got tighted up and it was wild before.

my money saving advice to anyone struggling with cost (providing they are luckily not to need the top doses) is to read up on subdosing safely and work your way up the higher strength pens to reduce the cost per dose. I’ve saved £100s doing this and it will be £1000s over the years I intend to continue until patents end. What I will never do is go near the grey or black market.

That's good advice @perimenopoppet

Thanks @perimenopoppet, just to be clear, you mean for example using a 10mg pen to get more 5ml doses?

Good to know, I will look at medicine market place.

Thanks all.
Just to clarify that on monjo, the cheapest 12.5mg is Medicine marketplace at £266 but with Numan discount (for both people) the same 12.5mg dose only costs £209 so it is considerably cheaper still with discounts. Up until recently my 10mg pens have cost £169 on Numan and I appreciate I have had a lucky run.
I have also noticed that if I pause with Numan, or say I am leaving, they give me another 10% off sometimes.
I absolutely would not go black market and ofcourse will only stay with reputable pharmacy.
Appreciated hearing your views of discount codes on hear. I still think done in the right way is mutually beneficial in a community of people trying to stay on it and get best deals possible.

I have gone with a new provider for each pen. Though i am on 2.5mg Mj, i have bought the higher dose pen when buying my next pen. So i have worked my way up the pens. I have really saved a lot this way and i also have the capacity to increase my dose when needed.
£209 for 12.5mg is pretty good.

It is a good price @Rosetime but only with voucher sharing. I had £100 off every month since September (they backed up my discounts and allowed me to use them subsequent months).
Looks like I’ll have to move away from these cheaper prices now.

It's £246 for 12.5mg from MMP, it's £266 for the 15mg dose on MMP. I appreciate that it's still £17 more expensive than Numan at £329 for 12.5mg with a £100 discount, but of course that's conditional on getting that referral discount.

£169 is an absolute steal for 10mg, but it clearly depends on getting your referral code used, and is that more than one discount off the list price of £309? I would not have the time or mental energy to promote my code to people in order to get that price each month, and I would doubt that I would be able to get anyone to use it. I don't discuss weight loss in real life, so I don't have anyone I could get to sign up.

Sorry yes £246 MMP@SilenceInside, Numan is listed £329 but they further discounted for me, which has happened about 50% of the time I been with them since September.
It does require mental energy
Prices not always transparent so you have to be on the ball and check price directly before order goes through. A message comes through giving 4 day warning. Some times I noticed no discount visable at this point so I pause order, then they message with further discount.