Can using weight loss injections be kept private from family?

[Darkcafedays]

After a fair amount of thought/research,I’ve decided to start on WLIs. I don’t have masses to lose - but it’s creeping up, and I also have high blood pressure.

My question is - I would like to keep this private from my DH and two teenage kids! Is this possible? I generally eat less than them anyway at meals - but do most people find they can barely manage to eat at all?!

A friend of mine was on them and she couldn’t manage more than a few bites of anything at a time.

I am alone working from home during the day so that’s fine, but hoping for our evening family meal I’d be able to eat a small healthy portion? How did others find it?

Your gp is notified.

Not scare mongering - just being factual. The benefits are larger than the risks for obese people.

I have kept it quiet to my wider family but my DH and kids know. I imagine it would be quite hard to keep it from them

I love the idea that everyone on Mumsnet has briefed their significant others with a list of their prescriptions in case they get hit by a bus. Not quite sure what the protocol is for people who are single, I should probably find out for when I inevitably have to LTB.

Honestly can’t imagine how fragile a marriage is that you wouldn’t share this with your spouse, you’d lose a lot more weight fast ditching the fella first!

I’ve been on it 2 years. Never had a jam.

Use the emergency details function on your phone, then in the unlikely event that you can't talk details can be accessed from there.

My PIL in Germany were advised by their GP to keep a small box with a list of all prescription/regular medication in their fridge.

It seems it is a standard approach of paramedics to check a fridge if no one is able to advise because a person lives alone ot the partner can’t help.

I actually think that is a great idea.

You most certainly are not being factual with your claim that ‘there are many documented cases of blindness’. That is absolute nonsense. Look at the research and see the numbers for yourself.

I only told DD who is a HCP just in case I had some massive reaction. DH still doesn’t know and I lost four stone. I kept mine in a tonic box, behind cans of tonic water in the garage fridge for over 12 months.

The scheme runs in the UK too. This is one example https://lionsmessageinabottle.co.uk/

lots of GP surgeries and pharmacies will provide a bottle too.

However, these are mainly aimed at older people or people on multiple medicines. It isn’t necessary for most people on WLI.

As I said above, most people would be able to advocate for themselves, and if they were unconscious it wouldn’t matter.

@Darkcafedays yes, perfectly possible to keep it to yourself if you want.
Nobody else’s business here if this is your choice.

A friend has been on mounjaro for 18 months and her husband and teenager don’t know.

The side effects you are concerned about certainly don’t affect everybody by any means. Neither I nor any of the other five people I know in real life on weight loss injections have had any negative side effects at all and none of us have the the extreme suppression some people report on social media.

Of course, should it ever become really necessary you could tell your husband at a later point if you wished.

Ultimately your health decisions are for you to decide.

I live alone so none of this has ever been a factor for me but I certainly wouldn’t be telling my teenage (and likely judgemental with limited knowledge of the medication) children if I had any.

Husband would be told to back off if he couldn’t be supportive but I appreciate that’s easy for me to say when many men are sulkers or worse if a woman disagrees with them.

Crack on and I hope it goes well for you.

No it's not. Nobody says this about any other (confidential) medication. Or assumes that the one person you've told follows you to work and accompanies you everywhere in case of emergency and the need to inform paramedics of likely irrelevant details about your life. Medical records exist and simple tests are quite possible.