I didn’t get the jist of why it’s so concerning other than it’s pricey and making obscene amounts for a foreign company. It’s supposed to be risk free. Put it in the fucking drinking water for all I care. Nation of fitties 👍
frege-peach on
It’s astonishing how often I get these advertised on social media, often with a slightly ‘wink wink’ air in the advert itself which is presumably to circumvent regulation.
Spitting_Dabs on
I’ve used monjaro and the side effects were absolutely awful.. I am not sure these drugs are as safe as people make out
UnavoidablyHuman on
The UK culture is shockingly fat phobic. I’ve been watching a bunch of comedies on BBC and almost every one of them has some fat joke in the pilot episode. It doesn’t surprise me that so many people are jumping at the chance to try a “miracle” weightloss drug
grimmmlol on
Currently been using Mounjaro for 3 months and it’s worked great with basically no side effects at all. Same for a couple of my friends. It took me over a year of researching and making sure it would be OK before I decided to try it.
For the first time in 7 years, I’ve managed to lose weight consistently, and I’m only 2 stone away from my goal. It’s helped me understand food portions better, and I’ve cut back on snacking and drinking alcohol too.
I have noticed a significant increase in weight loss injections being advertised, though. I’ll get lots of online adverts, and every pharmacy in town has them up in the windows, too. It appears to be very popular and successful.
Thetonn on
I attempted to get weight loss drugs through the NHS. It took me over two years of navigating different layers of bureaucracy, months of zero contact, and I found the overwhelming majority of the advice and other information provided practically useless and incredibly patronising. After about 18 months there was actually a useful and helpful course, but that was the abnormal, not the usual, and it was time limited. Only after that were the drugs theoretically avaliable if you qualified.
The main thing I learned was that almost everyone else on the course had some kind of mental health condition or living situation that just telling them ‘calories in, calories out’ did nothing to help.
I am a boring person used to navigating bureaucracies and it repeatedly made me want to rage quit. I can entirely understand why normal people struggling with their regular lives and a lot of the underlying mental health conditions that drive obesity would give up on the NHS and go private if they could.
The answer is to make a competent preventative public health function that supports people to lose weight without the drugs, but if we could have done that, we’d have done it already.
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I didn’t get the jist of why it’s so concerning other than it’s pricey and making obscene amounts for a foreign company. It’s supposed to be risk free. Put it in the fucking drinking water for all I care. Nation of fitties 👍
It’s astonishing how often I get these advertised on social media, often with a slightly ‘wink wink’ air in the advert itself which is presumably to circumvent regulation.
I’ve used monjaro and the side effects were absolutely awful.. I am not sure these drugs are as safe as people make out
The UK culture is shockingly fat phobic. I’ve been watching a bunch of comedies on BBC and almost every one of them has some fat joke in the pilot episode. It doesn’t surprise me that so many people are jumping at the chance to try a “miracle” weightloss drug
Currently been using Mounjaro for 3 months and it’s worked great with basically no side effects at all. Same for a couple of my friends. It took me over a year of researching and making sure it would be OK before I decided to try it.
For the first time in 7 years, I’ve managed to lose weight consistently, and I’m only 2 stone away from my goal. It’s helped me understand food portions better, and I’ve cut back on snacking and drinking alcohol too.
I have noticed a significant increase in weight loss injections being advertised, though. I’ll get lots of online adverts, and every pharmacy in town has them up in the windows, too. It appears to be very popular and successful.
I attempted to get weight loss drugs through the NHS. It took me over two years of navigating different layers of bureaucracy, months of zero contact, and I found the overwhelming majority of the advice and other information provided practically useless and incredibly patronising. After about 18 months there was actually a useful and helpful course, but that was the abnormal, not the usual, and it was time limited. Only after that were the drugs theoretically avaliable if you qualified.
The main thing I learned was that almost everyone else on the course had some kind of mental health condition or living situation that just telling them ‘calories in, calories out’ did nothing to help.
I am a boring person used to navigating bureaucracies and it repeatedly made me want to rage quit. I can entirely understand why normal people struggling with their regular lives and a lot of the underlying mental health conditions that drive obesity would give up on the NHS and go private if they could.
The answer is to make a competent preventative public health function that supports people to lose weight without the drugs, but if we could have done that, we’d have done it already.