I was thinking elora was way too expensive to even consider but I sat down and tried to work out how much it would cost compared to cagri which I am currently taking at 0.25 every 4 days, ( as well as tirz4.25/reta 1.5/2days )
At $300 usd per 100mg it is $3 per mg, cagri cost about $100 usd for 50mg or $2/mg
Max dose of elora used in the studies was 9mg , max dose of cagri was 2.4mg , definitely not a precise way of working out relative doses but works out to elora 3.75:1 cagri
So at current dose of 0.5 cagri/w approx equivalent elora dose would be 2mg /week, or $1 usd /week for cagri vs $6 usd/week for elora.
So , a lot more expensive at 6x the price but cheap by any reasonable standard, and not dearer than current tirz/reta dose that is about $10 aud/week. My guess is if it really does have less side effects than cagri, where I cannot really increase doses due to increased nausea, it would be easy to keep bumping up the dose to where it started getting expensive.
I had a lot of trouble finding the full papers for cagri and could only find the abstracts which did not have detailed side effect rates, but what I have seen suggests it has more side effects than elora, and that elora at lower doses at least of 3mg or less has quite low rates of nausea and fatigue, only 10% or so. And possibly has better muscle sparing effects, and higher maximum weight loss effects. And possibly better additional weight loss when added on to reta or tirz. Cagri did not really show much additional weight loss when added on to semaglutide.
elora weight loss 1mg 7-8% 3mg 10-12% 6mg 18% 9mg 20% at 48 weeks weight still going down
compared with cagri phase 1 1.2mg 15% 2.4mg 17%