Fwiw united health manages hundreds of different plans and rules. Somewhat worked for him might not work for you. I could prolly see what your plan requires…
Its because you have to do anti-doctor work. like instead of prescribing meds you have to decline meds. Instead of giving surgery you have to disallow surgery. Instead of treating people in the hospital you have to decline to pay for hospitalizations.
Well that and if I remember correctly about a rare disease story, a lot of those doctors are making decisions on stuff that they definitely aren't specialized in and probably would never actually be on the provider side for. https://www.propublica.org/article/malpractice-settlements-doctors-working-for-insurance-companies I remember reading this guy's particular story and it sickened me what was uncovered. His own doctors kept advocating for the treatments being necessary and the insurance company kept making him go back on I guess what's considered the equivalent of a preferred-generic that never helped him. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis
if it helps me lose these 15 pounds and gets me to 10% body fat it will be worth it. Fuck freedom pop pop wants noticeable abs in his 40s
Tobias idk if you found a place in NC but check out BlueskyMD. You have to do labs first which you can do through insurance then it’s $30 per week for a once a week injection. There’s a location 5 minutes from me so going in once a week is not a problem but it would be hard if there isn’t one close by.
In the middle of my first week of wegovy. Took about two weeks but finally got PA approved and found some in stock. I did a weight loss program for insurance plan cost incentives the last two years but they weren’t really successful long term. I already eat pretty healthy for a big guy. We cook at home 95% of the time with a good variety. Very little processed foods or sugar, and mostly only drink water/coffee and occasional adult beverages. Portion control/second plate and late night grazing is what gets me. I’m literally just ‘hungry’ all of the time regardless of my diet/workout regimen, or when I last ate. The only time it wasn’t like that for me was when I did keto. The weight flew off on keto, but it’s just not sustainable to be that restrictive and weight eventually came back. I've been down to under 200 and into the 250s multiple times in my adult life, and up to like 285 once many years ago. Got back over 250 a few weeks ago and had to do something. I’m back under 250 today, but not sure the wegovy really started working yet. I’ve just been beating back the brain food noise and hitting the peloton.
That part hits home for me pretty hard I can get full eating, but it very rarely takes long for that to go away. Even if I'm miserable from eating too much, if I go poop, I immediately feel like I could grab a snack
How dare overweight people who want to be healthy hurt our All-American snack brands... won't someone think of the shareholders?!? (I got this email this weekend. Big CPG is kind of freaking out about these drugs and its hilarious)
I'm on week 8 of tirzepatide. My wife wanted to try it as she was losing the remainder of her baby weight, so I decided to join her. I've always been in what I'd call somewhat decent shape. I have always eaten a ton and like a couple other people mentioned, I could feel hungry again an hour after a meal. I ate an absolute ton of food in the end of HS/early college to get above 200lbs and really never changed my eating habits. For the last 5-6 years I've hovered between around 217-227 and never really been out of that range. I was 225 when I started. I've felt full regularly for the first time I can remember. The hardest part is hitting daily protein goals for me despite feeling full, but it just takes a little bit more planning and effort than it normally does. I'm down to 206, which is probably in part due to some lost muscle mass because work has kept me from lifting as much as I normally would, but I have definitely lost a significant amount of fat that I had been carrying around for the majority of my adult life.
I wonder if this is something that would be used to manage blood pressure? I take amlodipine now which helps, and I exercise pretty vigorously five times a week. I'd say I'm overweight but probably don't have a ton of fat I can lose. Anyways my blood pressure is mostly under control, but it's definitely still higher than I'd like given how much I exercise.
Not sure but it seems like we are at the tip of the iceberg for what these drugs will be approved for. There’s about 50 active, recruiting, or yet to open trials on clinicaltrials.gov for semaglutide. Here is the trial that got the latest approval https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2307563
Have an appt this afternoon to try something new - thinking likely concerta. Addy was too much of a stimulant for me, didn't like xr bc it felt like ebbs and flows.
Took my 4th week’s dose today. Can tell a little difference in feeling full and a decrease in cravings, but it’s not huge yet. They will slowly up your dose. Just do what you can until you get there.
I move to 7.5 of zepbound today, but I didn’t exactly do it like I was supposed to. I only took the load dose for 2 weeks, which was 2.5. Then I have only taken 5 mg for 2 weeks.
On week two of 0.25ml semaglutide compound or whatever. Seems like I’m getting some small effects. I’ve noticed the first couple days after each dose I’ll be kind of lightheaded by afternoon.
Near the end of my first week on 1mg. There’s two levels above that. Definitely feel it a little more each time we go up. It’s changed the poop game for sure, and it’s noticeable that everything moves through slower. Down 10 lbs from my peak. Mrs. Esq. says I can never stop taking it since I fart way less now.
took my medication on friday and got this message the next day from the provider Should i be ok? Called support and lines were busy all day Spoiler