As a diabetic, who is also overweight, the VA is my medical provider and according to my Dr. the VA will not cover these drugs for my particular case. Not diabetic enough is the reason.
I have lost weight through diet change which was essentially eating nothing but those Power Bowls in the frozen food section...ugh...But I hit a plateau—and I gained most all of it back because I started eating human food sans the obvious like gravy, copious amounts of spaghetti, french fries, breakfast cereal, etc...
I will look into this.
Its not just diet changes. American foodstuffs are made differently thn in other parts of the world. They put more sugar andcorn syrup products into everything, even though in many cases its not enough to outright taste it. Its why people in other places can eat what they eat and not have problems, but if they come here and eat what they always have eaten, they start gaining aeight. I thinkmits in combo with portion sizes may be different here, and in general they may also walk less than they did outside the USA. Trying to get imported foreign made food items for cooking often helps.
I always kidded to my doc I wanted Mounjaro and she kept saying you’re not diabetic so now that I am (out of the blue, not that overweight) she prescribed it. My insurance is covering a lot of the cost, but not all. It costs me 255.00 monthly. Am off now as my GFR was low (doc says it’s probably due to dehydration) and I’m getting more tests after this month then we’ll proceed. Lost a lot of weight the first month.