What are your options if you have no insurance

Edited June 28, 20242 yr by Kellz1

BariatricPal offers affordable GLP-1 options if you don't have insurance at https://careglp.bariatricpal.com/

I had to save. It cost me around £12,000. The NHS in my area had stopped doing this surgery as they said it was not essential surgery and they had a huge back log because of Covid.

Lots go abroad because it is cheaper. I was too timid. Most private hospitals in the UK offer interest free packages, cheaper than a bank loan.

Are you talking about surgery or the glp- meds or some other meds? For surgery some people choose to go out of pocket and some stay within the states (the dr should have a private pay rate). For GLP-1 meds they do make compounded versions of them that are a little cheaper. Frankly most insirance doesn’t cover them so lots of people are going that route. They offer them here in the store on this site but I can’t vouch for them. I’ve never tried any of them. The other diet drugs that are less expensive you could probably go to like good rx and get a coupon code for a pharmacy near you and get a better price than retail. Phentermine is one that I have heard some people have success with. You will need to see a dr for the script and they most likely will do an ekg before they give them to you since it is a stimulant. There are a few others but that’s the only name that is coming to mind right now. I will tell you ahead of time though if you are a night eater. Like you eat all through the night the phentermine won’t do much for you because you can’t take it at night or you can’t sleep and once it wears off it doesn’t do anything of course. It did curb my cravings so I could make healthy choices through the normal day though.