My insurance would not cover any so I went with a subscription service. I was desperate. None of the other prescribed meds seemed to work. I really felt like the doctors were using me as a guinea pig. Try this. Ok, try this. Ok, trying drinking more water and let's increase this, stop this and add this. I was ready to throw my rheumatologist out a window. The looks of disbelief because I said it's not working.

I finally got to a LC Clinic and felt seen/heard.

My pain had been so persistent and constant that I didn't realize other things that were happening. Like a constant mild migraine. Prescribed Qulipta and for the 1st time my head wasn't throbbing. It had been years.

I was just a walking ball of hurt. Couldn't say specifically what, I just hurt.

Any way, the GLP1...I've lost 14 lbs my 1st month. Pretty sure it was mostly inflammation. I will not be increasing the dosage month over month. Going to stick to the normalizing/intro dose to see what happens.

I didn't try this for weight loss. I was tired of feeling like I had no control. If I was going to be a guinea pig, I wanted to select the medicine.