I can tell you first hand of the dozen people that I know that went on them only 1 single person actually made a true attempt to change their daily habits to lose weight before hand. The rest took the easy button when they could have avoided any potential side effects from it and from obesity. By cutting out pop, cutting out junk food, cutting out eating out multiple times a week, packing a healthy lunch for work, just simply walking, etc. To each their own though.
I have been on Ozempic for a couple of years or so, my A1C level has dropped from pre diabetic to normal, lost around 45 pounds of weight. My appetite to eat has dropped in half of what it was before I started taking the drug. The only negative I have was an upset stomach the first couple of injections and when my doze was raised from 1 to 2. Both went away within a matter of hours and I no longer have those symptoms, even after I started taking the higher dose. All my blood work during the time I have been on it has improved, and when I commented that my weight lose has leveled out, my doctor said that the drug is working, and the excess weight you were carrying is now gone, if you want to continue to lose weight, we can put you on other weight lose drugs. I have decided against doing so.
You know a dozen people that have been on these medications? Wow. I know one person.
These reports have been around for years. Ozempic has been used for 10 years? Nothing new.
The benefits so outweigh the risks, it's almost like a miracle drug. If u need, take it.
On my last refill, Walgreens said they were having trouble with my insurance company and wanted to know if I had switched plans and would get back to me. In the email, it listed the cost of the drug without insurance and it was $1205 for 4 injections, I paid a little less than $25 dollars out of pocket for the drug, after the problem was worked out.
My friend got his through hims/hers and said it was $900 for a three month supply.
Did you know what I meant or just wanted to be a smart ass to feel smarter?
My wife looked into going on it after seeing my results, but her A1C score was not high enough to get our insurance company to cover it. The doctor said she can go to a compounding pharmacy and get it, but the cost would be anywhere from $700 to $900 a month. After hearing that, she decided against it.
Is the $7k the individual max on your plan or the family max on your plan? Usually the family high deductible plans has buried in the terms that there is a cap on a single individual out of the family members insured such a single person matches the individual high deductible amount and then rest have to get to the 7k total.
FWIW NovoDisk stopped providing Wegovy to Hims over concerns about their distribution of "illegal" (i.e. unregulated) GLP-1 product.
I'm pretty sure that cost was out of pocket for him, but I'm not 100% sure about that. It was pretty much for cosmetic reasons. Going through a divorce and wanted to get a boost on looking and feeling better. He wasn't a huge person but still lost a bunch of weight. He was pretty open about it and wrote a blog post about the whole thing.
