Same story here. I have PCOS and high cholesterol and need to control my weight. My doctor said Ozempic could help. But my insurance doesn’t cover Ozempic for weight loss. It's incredibly frustrating.
Can you afford 85 cents a week out of pocket? Or for better A1C reduction than semaglutide (generic Ozempic), $5 a week for tirzepatide (generic Mounjaro)?
I gave up fighting my insurance after they denied my appeal twice. It's a losing battle. I found a weight loss website called Slimvive through reddit. The whole setup is that you buy one of their coaching packages and the Ozempic just comes with it. I got a month's supply for 499, no prescription.
You didn't have to prove your case to them or anything? You just... bought it? And it's not some weird off-brand version?
I feel like you haven't spent very much time reading threads on this discussion board. And suggest you do.
You have options. You haven't explored them well enough. Read and learn. Nothing is easy.
Yeah, you can buy the name brand stuff at the pharmacy for $500. You do have to get the manufacturer's coupon but its not that hard to do. $500 a month is still too expensive for most people though. That's almost my mortgage payment. My first grey purchase was a 1-2 year supply (depending on how I dose it) I didn't even buy from the cheapest supplier.
I just filled out a form on their site and they approved me the same day. And yeah, it’s the real FDA-approved pen, not a compound.
Pfft ... How do we know the FDA is looking out for out best interests anyway? The only difference I see between the grey market and the pharmacy is who is collecting the money and how much.
What about the coaching thing, do you have to go through that? and the shipping?
You can skip the coaching part. And iirc shipping took 4-5 days on my end. Packaging was good too, it came in a sealed cold container.
Is it this site? https://slimvive.com/program/
Yeah. Different tier for each dose.
That's more expensive than getting the name brand from the pharmacy. With the manufacturers coupon its $499 a month at all doses. What a rip off. And yes, that IS compounded. Its a really nice counterfeit though, I'll hand them that. Look at the pen .. it doesn't say "wegovy" or "ozempic" it just says "semaglutide"
I finally used a box of actual Mounjaro autoinjectors after months and months of grey tirz from an insulin syringe ... and I HATED them! The thwack-and-wait, while not actually painful per se, felt like a disturbingly violent sensation. I don't know why anyone would seek out clones of them at any price.
And I'm having a hard time understanding why people would seek out this particular forum just to discuss the negatives of insurance authorizations, physicians' limitations, and the absurd expense of buying GLP1s retail.
I have no experience with the Mounjaro pen, but the ozempic pen isn't much different than the reusable pens that most of us buy and use for grey. The main difference that I see is that the cartridge is sealed inside the outer plastic shell. The wegovy pen, while comfortable to use, didn't allow you to adjust the dosage yourself. Even more wasted plastic for the sake of ensuring maximum profits for themselves.
Well .. because the name of this site is "GLP-1 Forum" Not "illicit products I bought from China forum" Everyone here has actually stayed on topic. What I find most offensive in this thread is that there are people managing to sell the "fake" stuff for a higher price than the "real" stuff actually costs an the people buying it actually believe that its genuine. Although the terms "fake" and "real" aren't really the best labels because its all the same stuff.
Fair enough, Gizmo ☮️
That's quite alright. Although re-reading the thread what I find REALLY odd is the people talking about the telehealth thing are talking exclusively to each other .. like we are reading a script to a commercial. No response to us at all.
