‘Wild west’: experts concerned by illegal promotion of weight-loss jabs in UK | Health

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1. 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 👍

2. 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.

3. I’ve used monjaro and the side effects were absolutely awful.. I am not sure these drugs are as safe as people make out

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. My MIL is currently on these and suffering side effects, the most obvious being sickness, and tiredness. She still drinks a lot, her diet and exercise habits haven’t changed, and although loosing weight, the intrrnal body risk does concern a few of us.

   She chose the jabs before making any attempt at a better diet and improving exercise. Surely that’s the wrong way to go about it?

8. What would help a lot of people is a change in food culture in the UK. One of the hardest parts about battling and recovering from anorexia was the fact that food was everywhere and almost all social events were centered around food. I love food, it is my biggest vice, but it is insane how heavily snacking is promoted and how people react negatively when you decline food when you are not really hungry (regardless of your weight). We also need to do more to move away from takeaways, beige teas and microwave ready meals being the norm, rather than a treat; supermarket meal deals need to be seen as the same. Weight loss jabs would be less necessary if the country took how it eats more seriously and had an open conversation about bad national habits.

9. I use ublock and don’t watch TV with ads and still managed to start using Mounjaro lol

   didn’t see a single ad for it, pretty sure I heard about it after I complained I couldn’t get ozempic (despite it clearly workimg miracles on Gabe Newell) in the UK and someone replied about wegovy and that led to me finding out about all the UK glp1 meds because the pharmacies place them together

   unless that first redditor who replied to me was a shill/bot, which tbf is entirely likely, then ads were required

   anyway, a tangential story but I’m not saying ads aren’t rampant, I’m saying I wouldn’t know if they are even if they are, and that I still bought it without ads

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