Medical weight loss

Prescription weight-loss medicines are labeled for adults with obesity, or with overweight and at least one weight-related health condition. A licensed provider decides whether one fits you.^1,2,3

Weight-related conditions named in the trials behind these labels include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obstructive sleep apnea and heart disease.¹ Your provider also looks at the medicines you take, your history and your goals.

Some people are not candidates. GLP-1 medicines are not used if you or a family member has had medullary thyroid carcinoma, if you have MEN 2, or if you've had a serious allergic reaction to the medicine.^1,2,3

Care has three parts: an evaluation, a plan built with your provider, and follow-up. Medication, if prescribed, is one part of the plan.

• An evaluation: your health history, current medicines and labs ordered for you at a lab near you. Lab testing
• A plan: changes to eating and activity and, where appropriate, a prescription. The medicines are approved for use together with a reduced-calorie diet and more physical activity.^1,2,3
• Follow-up: visits to review how you're doing, side effects and whether to continue, adjust or stop.

Your coordinator has a direct line, schedules your labs and visits, and handles refills when your provider prescribes them.

When a medicine fits, your provider chooses a GLP-1 medication and explains why. GLP-1 medications covers each active ingredient, what the FDA-approved products are approved for, and the label warnings.

Individual results vary and are not guaranteed, and your provider reviews your progress at each follow-up.

The labels of the three GLP-1 medicines described on the GLP-1 medications page each carry a boxed warning, and they have other warnings your provider reviews with you before prescribing.^1,2,3

• Boxed warning: thyroid C-cell tumors were seen in rodent studies of these medicines or of medicines that work the same way. Whether they cause these tumors, including medullary thyroid carcinoma, in people is not known. They are not used in people with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or with MEN 2. Report a lump in the neck, trouble swallowing, shortness of breath or hoarseness that doesn't go away.^1,2,3
• Other warnings include pancreatitis, gallbladder problems, severe stomach and bowel side effects, kidney injury from dehydration, low blood sugar when used with insulin or a sulfonylurea, serious allergic reactions, eye problems in people with type 2 diabetes, and a risk of inhaling stomach contents during anesthesia or deep sedation.^1,2,3
• The most common side effects are nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, constipation and stomach pain.^1,2,3

Read the Important Safety Information for GLP-1 weight-loss medications

Visits are at your local office or by secure video. Some states require a physical exam before weight-loss medication is prescribed, so your coordinator tells you whether your first visit needs to be in person.

Getting started follows the same steps as every treatment: a coordinator call, labs, then a provider visit. If your provider decides medication isn't right for you, nothing is prescribed. How it works

Costs are explained before you pay, and you get a receipt by email. There is no membership, contract or automatic billing, and each supply needs your provider's prescription and your OK. Your coordinator explains what each step costs, including the medication, before you agree to it. How pricing works

Start at your local office, or by secure video where your state allows. Find an office

Prescription treatment requires an evaluation by a licensed healthcare provider, who decides whether treatment is appropriate for you. Not everyone qualifies. Completing an assessment, booking a visit, or paying a fee does not guarantee a prescription.

1. DailyMed. Tirzepatide prescribing information: boxed warning, indications, contraindications, warnings, clinical studies (label effective 2026-08-28) dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=487cd7e7-434c-4925-99fa-aa80b1cc776b
2. DailyMed. Semaglutide prescribing information: boxed warning, indications, contraindications, warnings (label effective 2026-06-18) dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=ee06186f-2aa3-4990-a760-757579d8f77b
3. DailyMed. Orforglipron prescribing information: boxed warning, indication, contraindications, warnings (label effective 2026-07-29) dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=8ac446c5-feba-474f-a103-23facb9b5c62

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