The starter doses are hard to find. The larger doses are not. It depends on if your friend is trying to use insurance or not, but if they’re going out of pocket tell them to ask their doctor about prescribing the Ozempic 8mg pen and just using a click chart to dispense smaller doses. The upshot is the pen will last multiple months until you’re past 1mg dosage. I wonder when our big pharma overlords will close this option.
If they’re waiting for Wegovy because it’s covered by insurance, unfortunately the pen is fixed dose on those.
Also, the supply constraint seems to be the injector pens, not the drug itself. Personally, I think the scarcity is intentional, or we'd be getting this stuff in vials and using regular syringes. Unless I'm misinformed, I don't think there's any bottleneck in the manufacture of semaglutide itself.
If they’re waiting for Wegovy because it’s covered by insurance, unfortunately the pen is fixed dose on those.
Also, the supply constraint seems to be the injector pens, not the drug itself. Personally, I think the scarcity is intentional, or we'd be getting this stuff in vials and using regular syringes. Unless I'm misinformed, I don't think there's any bottleneck in the manufacture of semaglutide itself.