Other clues that your compounded prescription may not be legitimate: It does not require a prescription
The GLP-1 agonists that are currently approved for weight loss are liraglutide (Saxenda) and semaglutide (Wegovy)
Ideally, the prescriber is someone you can work with long term, says John Morton, MD, MPH, chief of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Yale Medicine and a board-certified obesity medicine specialist
Almost every time I give a talk, theres someone in the audience whos taken [GLP-1] drugs and they say, I just dont feel thirsty anymore, said Derek Daniels, an ingestive behavior researcher at the University at Buffalo
This rarely occurs with semaglutide or tirzepatide
If youre in this category and your results have plateaued before reaching your goal, its worth evaluating whether switching medications makes sense