How to stop paying for Mounjaro and Wegovy and get them free on the NHS, reveals DR ELLIE… and the two steps you should take if you’ve slimmed down too much to be eligible

I’ve been paying for more than a year for Mounjaro and I lost a lot of weight. Now it is available in NHS, now although I am under the threshold of BMI for a new recipe? It cost me very expensive, but I’m worried that I will gain weight again if I stop.

Dr Ellie Cannon Answers: Weight loss jabs will not be prescribed to patients under the threshold of the body mass index (BMI) determined by NHS.

NHS has very strict rules of who can access these drugs, Mounjaro and Wegovy. Patients should be associated with four obesity, including at least 40 BMI and high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, heart disease, osteoarthritis or diabetes.

This is to ensure that patients who need drugs the most to take them first.

These requirements will relax in the next few years. Next year, Jabs will be presented with more than 35 BMI and four conditions for obesity. Then, in September 2026, over 40, and only three relevant conditions can take them.

In contrast, private clinics may present to patients with more than 30 BMI or more than 27 if they have at least one weight.

For many, this presentation should be frustrating slowly. This applies to those who pay for Jabs and have positive results.

And since NHS instructions suggest that patients remain indefinitely in JABs or the risk of returning to their original weights, this means that many who are currently paying for a special recipe – up to £ 250 a month – may be bombarded for the predictable future.

However, it is worth to show that all trials on these drugs are higher than that users who improve their diets and perform regular exercise are higher.

For this reason, it is important that everyone who starts to buy Mounjaro or Wegovy in Jabs to improve their lifestyles in the long run. Drugs alone are not a solution.

I am 86 years old and I have asthma. A few years ago, my doctor gave me a steroid and improved my symptoms significantly. But when I stopped the drugs, my situation went downhill. My GP refuses to give me more. I don’t care about long -term effects at my age. What should I do?

Dr Ellie Cannon Answers: Steroids can be an effective treatment for asthma, and only a good medical cause should be prescribed.

Drugs that can be given by inhaler or can be taken as tablets can place the immune system and reduce inflammation in the body. With asthma, they are often used to treat arthritis forms.

Steroid tablets are used at high doses for a week to treat the bad exacerbations of a number of conditions. However, some people can take very low doses every day to keep their condition under control – including severe asthma.

Although effective, steroids can trigger a number of side effects, including bone -thinned disease osteoporosis, insomnia and swelling of the body. Therefore, doctors only outweigh them when necessary and the benefits.

These complications may become more likely at an older age.

In cases where a patient does not agree with a prescription, the GP is worth discussing about the side effects they want to accept while on the drug.

Doctors should take into account how a treatment improves the patient’s quality of life and general health. If a particular treatment makes the life of a patient significantly better, there is a good argument to continue.

However, it is important to think about other options. In the case of asthma, there are specific anti-inflammatory drugs and newly advanced inhaler that can help calm the worst symptoms.

I am 82 years old and suffer from volume labels. They scarely itchy. I tried all kinds of creams, but nothing works. What should I do?

Dr Ellie Cannon Answers: Skin labels are fleshy skin color growth that can occur anywhere in the body.

The most common places they are in the eyelids, at the bottom and arms and neck.

Usually, they do not cause any symptoms, so NHS tends not to treat them.

Instead, patients who want them to remove them will have to pay typically. Special dermatology clinics offer a series of skin label therapies, such as a procedure called small surgery or cryotherapy, including freezing.

However, patients who find that skin tags cause many symptoms such as itching may ask their GPs to see a NHS dermatologist who can perform one of these procedures.

The problem must be bad enough to affect the patient’s quality of life. Daily bleeding will be a good reason for referral due to itching of skin labels.

If the problem is not severe enough to guarantee a guidance, a GP may prescribe anti-skill creams. Many patients apply these creams before going to bed to help improve their sleep.

Have you ever had a cough that never ends?

Last month, researchers at the University of Leicester announced that some people discovered genetically prone to chronic cough.

I was fascinated to read that scientists believe that some people believe they believe they were more prone to chronic cough – one lasts longer than eight weeks.

One of the ten British adults is suffering from this disturbing problem that may disrupt sleep.

Last month, researchers at the University of Leicester announced that some people discovered that they were genetically susceptible-there are extra sensitive nerves that trigger cough in their masties.

Usually it is reduced to another medical problem such as heartburn or asthma, but in most cases it cannot help treat the underlying problem. I hope this discovery can help researchers develop new treatments.

Have you experienced a chronic cough? Did you find a treatment that helps? Please write and let me know.

Pays money to be understanding about salt

I am glad to learn that a study is to put salt level warnings on the dishes in the restaurant menus.

Previously, I have expressed my skepticism about the effectiveness of adding calorie information to the menus, because research shows that people do not reduce the amount of calories that people consume an average, but may upset those with eating disorders.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool claim that their findings of salt levels work and that they should be included in all menus, and I do not suffer any damage.

In fact, it is time to do much more to warn people about the dangers of consuming too much salt linked to high blood pressure and consequently heart disease.