Ida's Ozempic Journey
This Blog's for you Grace - Thanks for asking me to keep one. I've been working since the beginning of June to get weight loss shots with my doctor and pharmacy since June 2023. It has been soo difficult. My regular pharmacy Raley's told me right away that they didn't have Ozempic and my doctor told me that Wagovy would be get so she put in a prescription for Saxenda. I was not happy about this since of all the shots this was one of the least successful and also had to be shot every day. I asked her about Mounjaro and I think she said it was too hard to get. After I was denied Saxenda I really pushed her to put in the pre-authorization codes for Mounjaro. Raley's pharmacy said it didn't say I was diabetic. I went back to the doctor and pushed her to write into the codes that I was pre-diabetic because I am. I went back to Raley's. They said - no. It's Raley's policy that I have to be Diabetic 1 or 2 to get the Mounjaro so they would ...