re: How to get husband’s generic mounjaro script filled? Compound formula not legal in LA

Yes, holy wall of Batman or whatever that saying is y’all say (it’s a long post)

Ok so i held my tongue after a few stupid comments because it’s tigerdroppings…
and i came here simply to ask where to buy the stuff. But now I’m annoyed.

I’ll start here— He wears a 35 in pants. No one looks at him and thinks “he’s fat”.

He’s just not where he should be. He’s 217 and was 180 in his prime. (We’ve been married 23 years. Together 26)
and nothing he’s tried over the last 10 years has worked.

I eat almost as much as him and have given birth to 5 children and yeh i gained waaaay too much weight for the first one thinking I’m eating for 2. (you’re NOT!) Got pregnant 4 months after she was born so not much time to lose anything so i was a big mess after number 2 but i lost it eventually. For #s 3, 4, & 5 i said you’re not eating for even one! Last baby was 8 years ago & as of today I’m 113 lbs. I’m 5’4 and i don’t exercise other than walking our dog a few days a week, and I’m in my mid 40s, perimenopause, so yes I’m convinced that there’s a metabolic issue going on with him because i eat almost as much as him, had 5 kids, only walk, am in the middle aged stage of life and I’m not fat. and any time we do something together like Keto for example or the whole 16hr fasting thing, i lose a bunch fast and he loses just a little slowly.

There are no snacks in our house besides olives, oranges, pickles, apples, and cheese. There’s no juice. no soda. Only tea to brew (unsweetened). I buy what I’m going to cook daily/right before I cook it. So there’s no potential for snacking. Yes he has a bourbon and a couple beers. His job is stressful, and supporting a wife and 5 kids & paying private school tuition is too. Maybe knowing you’ll likely die of cancer and half your children probably will too, adds to that stress. Sure if he quit drinking those couple beers and that bourbon he’d lose SOME weight, but not all of what wants to lose.

The phrase “genetic mutation” may sound stupid, but it’s real. I just didn’t want to get into it in my post way back. But since you’re making fun of it ….

It was discovered by Saint Jude’s children’s research hospital in our daughter’s DNA from a splice of a tumor removed from her BRAIN when she was 14. Parents have to be tested to see which one passed it on because it causes all kinds of problems to the carrier - pneumothorax(spontaneous lung collapse), renal cancer/kidney tumors, colorectal cancer, & fibrofolliculomas. Both she and my husband have to get kidney ultra sounds & lung x-rays every few years to check for tumors. Also, there’s a 50/50 chance each one of our children may have it. They are all supposed to be tested at 18. Our 21 year old still hasn’t tested though.

I spent months researching after they were diagnosed — I learned more about mRNA, transcription, introns, exons and mutations than you’d ever want to know. I learned about many of the other 400 families as well, and their symptoms, deaths, etc.

I charted all the variants in introns of the FLCN gene and “symptoms” of those fams to see if fams with same mutations had same symptoms. They did. (makes sense cuz same coding message). But no other families had our variant (a thymine where there’s supposed to be guanine in intron 8 of the tumor suppressing gene, FLCN)

My husband’s parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins haven’t tested. It would make sense to rule in or out older members and go from there, but no one has tested except my husband. His siblings at least should cuz there’s a 50/50 they have it, unless he’s de novo (developed the mutation spontaneously as an embryo/didn’t actually inherit it).

the symptoms typically don’t start until your mid to late 30s at the earliest. So it’s a wait and see for some signings and maybe their parent won’t ever present symptoms or maybe my husband is de novo

OR maybe there’s millions of people walking around with mutations on their FLCN gene, and we don’t know it because no one tests for this unless they already have the combined problems. of the 400 families tested across the globe, they all have MAJOR problems and many deaths. BUT they were tested precisely BECAUSE of their problems….

Onto PCOS. you can google brothers and fathers of women with PCOS. Studies are showing that metabolic disorders run in families. PCOS is passed down from the father’s side. The men in the families of these women tend to have metabolic disorders and insulin resistance just like their sisters and daughters. His mother is the only one who doesn’t struggle with weight. It seems to be his sisters (both diagnosed with PCOS) as well as his brothers and his father. (Only one of our daughters has PCOS, thank goodness.)

Anyway, maybe the mutation has nothing to do with it, maybe it does. mRNA sends messages to cells, and his are getting the wrong message. We don’t know what that message is. We don’t know what his cells are doing.

Insulin resistance, genetic mutation, or in your words, fat alcoholic— either way, I would like to prolong the life of a beloved husband and father of 5 with a little weight loss. I don’t see why anyone should make fun of that? You don’t know him. You don’t know what he does to care for his family. You don’t know how much he works. You don’t know how good of a friend he is. You don’t know that he’s a good moral Godly man.

It’s rather strange to me how on all these forums people 100 and 200lbs overweight get the go ahead, but someone who is 215 but SHOULD be 180 is called a fat lazy alcoholic or is shamed for even considering such a drug as if anyone knows what all he’s tried in the past. We don’t know the history of everyone. & Who cares?!

Suppose someone hasn’t done a damn thing to lose weight? Suppose someone just wants to lose 15lbs and doesn’t have time to go the the gym orsimply doesn’t feel like it? The horror!!! Suppose they don’t care if they lose some muscle?? If a glp-1 helps them lose 15lbs, GREAT!!! As long as they give themselves maintenance doses they’ll be able to keep it off.

The less overweight people the better! Why should we care what their reasons are & what they’ve tried in the past. We should be thrilled they want to lose weight, and there’s finally a way they actually CAN! What’s with all the judgement?

On Reddit i get the impression people feel like they have to pretend they’re fatter than they really are so people won’t judge them for asking about it. You can’t win. You’re either too skinny or you’re a fat lazy alcoholic.