Prescription Weight Loss Medications With Online Doctor Consultations (October 2026)

01 · Getting started

How to get prescription weight loss medication online

You complete a short health questionnaire, a GPhC-registered prescriber reviews it, and if treatment is suitable the medicine is dispensed and delivered. The consultation is free and carries no obligation. The price shown is the price paid, with no hidden fees. You can start from our free weight loss consultation.

The review is carried out by a person, not a scoring script. Payment is taken when you place the order; if the prescriber decides the treatment is not suitable, the order is refunded automatically in full. That matters if you are unsure whether you qualify: the check costs you nothing.

For most people the medicine is the Mounjaro pen, a once-weekly injection. Your first 2.5mg pen costs £129.99 with code FIRST40 (standard price £169.99). Switching from another provider at a higher dose? A new customer's first order at any dose is £40 less, so a first 15mg pen is £289.99. After that, every later order is £25 off the standard price (code DOSE25). All six doses are in stock.

02 · Cost planning

What it costs across the first year

If you step up after 4 weeks on each dose, your first four pens (2.5mg to 10mg) cost £959.96 at standard prices. A first year of 13 pens costs £2,711.88 if you settle at 5mg, and up to £3,599.88 if you settle at 15mg. These are before discounts: a new customer's first order is £40 less and every later order £25 less.

Across the UK pharmacies we track, Mounjaro pens range from £143.96 to £339.00 depending on dose and provider (checked 10 October 2026). For the same dose, the gap between providers runs from £27 to £41. You can pay by Visa, Mastercard or Klarna, with pay-monthly options and no subscription. Repeat orders re-check suitability, and nothing ships automatically.

03 · What is included

What the service includes

Every order is Mounjaro supplied through official LillyDirect supply, direct from Eli Lilly's UK distribution, as genuine KwikPens. Delivery is free, next-day and tracked, in discreet temperature-controlled packaging, with same-day dispatch when ordered by 3pm. Saturday delivery is £14.99. Needles, a sharps bin and injection guidance come with every order.

Ongoing monthly reviews, dose titration and side-effect support are handled by the prescribing team. Our support line is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, on 0333 207 0413. You can read more about our private Mounjaro prescription process or go to buy Mounjaro directly.

Mounjaro (tirzepatide) is a prescription-only medicine, supplied only after an online consultation reviewed by a GPhC-registered prescriber. It is used alongside a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity. Individual results vary. This page is information, not a substitute for medical advice.¹

04 · Online consultation steps

What an online doctor consultation involves

An online consultation is a structured health review done through a questionnaire and assessed by a prescriber, replacing a face-to-face appointment. It is a legitimate route in the UK when it is run through a registered pharmacy. You can check any pharmacy on the public register of the General Pharmaceutical Council; ours is registered under number 9012878.¹²

The process has four steps. First, you complete a short free health questionnaire with no charge and no obligation. Second, a GPhC-registered prescriber reviews your answers. Payment is taken when you place the order; if the prescriber decides the treatment is not suitable, the order is refunded automatically in full. Third, our registered pharmacy dispenses the medicine, with same-day dispatch when ordered by 3pm. Fourth, it arrives by free next-day tracked DPD delivery in temperature-controlled packaging.

Why does the review matter? A prescriber has to weigh your BMI, medical history and current medicines before deciding whether a medicine is suitable. That is a clinical decision, and it should never be reduced to a form that approves everyone. If a website offers to supply a prescription-only weight loss injection without a consultation or prescription, treat that as a warning sign.

You can read a wider explanation in our guide to getting prescriptions through telehealth, and a plain-language walk-through of seeing an online doctor for weight loss injections.

After your first order, the relationship continues. The prescribing team carries out monthly reviews, adjusts the dose as you progress and offers side-effect support. Repeat orders re-check suitability each time, so a change in your health or medicines is picked up. There is also a free companion app, GLPTrackr, for tracking your GLP-1 journey on iOS and Android.

What if you change your mind? A declined consultation is refunded in full automatically, typically within 5 to 10 working days. Dispensed prescription medicines cannot be returned except where an item is faulty, damaged or wrong, in which case contact us within 3 days.

Support is available by email at support@everydaymeds.co.uk, through the account portal chat, or by phone, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. If you have questions on whether treatment is right for you, ask before ordering: the prescriber can only advise on what you tell them, so full and accurate answers help most.

05 · Who qualifies

Who qualifies for prescription weight loss medication

Mounjaro is licensed for weight management in adults with a BMI of 30 or above, or a BMI between 27 and 30 with at least one weight-related condition. Qualifying conditions include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obstructive sleep apnoea, cardiovascular disease, prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. It must be used alongside a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity.¹

A prescriber assesses your BMI, medical history and current medicines before deciding whether it is suitable for you.¹¹ Meeting the BMI figure is therefore necessary but not enough on its own. The prescriber may decide a different approach suits you better, and that is the point of a clinical review.

If you are considering a different medicine, your prescriber can advise on its own criteria.

For a fuller walk-through, our page on how to qualify for prescription weight loss medications goes through the criteria step by step.

What should you tell the prescriber? Everything you take, including over-the-counter products, and every diagnosis you have. Some medicines need particular care alongside Mounjaro, including warfarin, insulin and sulfonylureas. Be accurate about your height and weight too, because the BMI figure sets the licensed route.

A common worry is whether you must have tried other things first. The licence sets BMI and condition criteria and says treatment is used alongside a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity. If you are unsure, the consultation is free and carries no obligation, so you can find out without cost.

06 · Mounjaro and results

How Mounjaro works and what trials show

Mounjaro is the brand name for tirzepatide, a once-weekly injectable prescription medicine made by Eli Lilly. In the UK it is licensed for weight management in adults and for type 2 diabetes. It comes as a pre-filled multi-dose KwikPen in six strengths: 2.5mg, 5mg, 7.5mg, 10mg, 12.5mg and 15mg.¹

Tirzepatide is the first treatment of its kind to activate two natural gut-hormone receptors at once: GIP and GLP-1. Together these help regulate appetite, slow how quickly the stomach empties, and improve the way the body responds to insulin. In practice, most people feel fuller sooner and less hungry between meals, which supports a reduced-calorie diet.¹ This dual action distinguishes it from single-action GLP-1 medicines such as semaglutide (Wegovy and Ozempic).

In the SURMOUNT-1 trial of 2,539 adults, people taking tirzepatide alongside diet and exercise lost on average 15% of their body weight on 5mg, 19.5% on 10mg and 20.9% on 15mg over 72 weeks, compared with 3.1% with lifestyle changes alone.² These are trial averages and individual results vary. Treatment works alongside a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity, not instead of them.

At 72 weeks, 85% of participants on 5mg, 89% on 10mg and 91% on 15mg had lost at least 5% of their body weight. Half of participants on 10mg and 57% on 15mg lost at least 20% of their body weight.²

To make the percentages concrete: for someone starting at 100 kg, 15% is about 15 kg and 20.9% is about 21 kg. That is straight arithmetic on the trial averages, not a prediction of your own result, which trial averages do not predict.

The trial ran for 72 weeks, so these figures describe a long course of treatment.

Tirzepatide has a half-life of about five days, so after a final dose it takes roughly 4 to 5 weeks to clear the system. There is no way to speed this up, and nothing needs doing while it clears.¹ Your prescriber guides the dose you start on and how it changes during your monthly reviews.

07 · NHS or private

NHS or private: the honest picture

Mounjaro is available on the NHS, but access is being phased in over several years. NICE recommends it for adults with a BMI of at least 35 plus at least one weight-related condition. The NHS primary-care rollout began in June 2025 with the highest-need groups first, initially BMI 40 or above with four or more qualifying conditions.⁴⁶ Full rollout is expected to take years.

That sequence explains a common question: "Do I qualify for Mounjaro on the NHS?" The answer depends on where you sit in the phased rollout, and your GP is the person to ask. The NHS guide to tirzepatide sets out how it is used for type 2 diabetes and obesity.⁵

It also explains why many people who meet the licensed criteria choose regulated private treatment rather than waiting. The licensed private criteria are wider than the early NHS groups: a BMI of 30 or above, or 27 to 30 with a weight-related condition.¹

Neither route is wrong. If you may be eligible for NHS treatment soon, ask your GP. If you meet the licensed criteria and want to start now, the private route is open. You do not have to choose permanently either; the medicine and dosing are the same licensed product.

Wegovy follows its own pathway: NHS access to Wegovy runs through specialist weight-management services, so ask your GP.

Our overview of the wider prescription weight loss market and our page on GLP-1 medicines with telehealth consultations give extra context if you are comparing routes.

08 · Other medicines

Other prescription weight loss medicines

Mounjaro is not the only prescription option, but each medicine has its own product information and your prescriber decides which is appropriate.

Wegovy (semaglutide) is a once-weekly injection. Its pens are 0.25mg, 0.5mg, 1mg, 1.7mg and 2.4mg, stepping up after 4 weeks on each of 0.25mg, 0.5mg, 1mg and 1.7mg, with the 2.4mg maintenance dose starting from week 17. The 2.4mg dose is the licensed maintenance dose for weight management.¹⁸ Mounjaro works on two gut-hormone receptors, GIP and GLP-1, whereas semaglutide is a single-action GLP-1 medicine.¹

Liraglutide (Saxenda, and products such as Erly) is supplied at a concentration of 6mg per millilitre. It is a daily injection, unlike the once-weekly Mounjaro and Wegovy.

Orlistat is an oral capsule. If you are weighing it, our guide to orlistat and online doctor consultations covers it separately.

Tablets: oral options exist, including Wegovy tablets and Foundayo (orforglipron), each with its own product information.²⁰²¹ So the answer to "is there a tablet equivalent to Mounjaro?" is that tablets exist but they are different medicines, not Mounjaro in tablet form. Their trial results should not be set against Mounjaro's as if they were head to head. See the current Wegovy tablet prices on the product pages.

Which medicine works best? No licensed medicine is best for everyone; your prescriber decides what suits you. SURMOUNT-5 is the first large head-to-head trial of tirzepatide and semaglutide.¹⁵ Individual results vary, and suitability matters as much as average results.

What about appetite suppressants, supplements and "natural" alternatives? Low-cost supplements are available cheaply without assessment, but they come with no clinical oversight, and dosing is not standardised. Dramatic weight-loss claims on them deserve scepticism. Our page on an online doctor and appetite suppressants goes into the difference between regulated prescribing and unregulated products.

You can see every treatment we offer on the all weight loss treatments page.

09 · Safety and interactions

Safety, interactions and counterfeit warnings

Safety starts with telling your prescriber everything. Because Mounjaro slows stomach emptying, it can affect how quickly some oral medicines are absorbed, particularly when you start treatment or increase the dose. Tell your prescriber about everything you take, especially warfarin or other narrow-margin medicines, insulin, or sulfonylureas, where doses may need reducing to avoid low blood sugar. No adjustment is needed for paracetamol.¹¹³

Insulin and sulfonylureas are not forbidden alongside Mounjaro; doses may simply need adjusting. That adjustment is the prescriber's decision, not something to attempt alone.

Contraception is a separate point. The medicine can reduce absorption of oral contraceptives because stomach emptying slows. The SmPC advises switching to a non-oral method, or adding a barrier method (such as condoms), for 4 weeks after starting Mounjaro and for 4 weeks after each dose increase.¹ The MHRA has published guidance on contraception with GLP-1 and GIP medicines, so discuss your method with your prescriber before starting.⁷ Mounjaro must not be used during pregnancy, and it should be stopped at least one month before trying to conceive. If you become pregnant during treatment, stop the medicine and tell your prescriber promptly.

Regulators have looked at whether GLP-1 medicines are linked to low mood or suicidal thoughts: the EMA's safety committee concluded in 2024 that the evidence does not support a causal link, and the MHRA keeps this under continuous review.¹⁷ Any big change in weight, appetite and routine can affect how you feel: tell your prescriber about any history of depression, and seek help promptly if your mood drops or you have distressing thoughts during treatment.

If you have thoughts of harming yourself or ending your life, get help straight away. Call 999 or go to A&E if you are in immediate danger. In England you can call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option, any time. You can also call Samaritans free on 116 123, day or night. Tell your prescriber about any change in your mood while taking Mounjaro.

Any new symptom, whether or not it is a recognised side effect, should be discussed with your prescriber. You can report suspected side effects through the MHRA Yellow Card scheme.¹⁹ The patient information leaflet lists the recognised side effects in full.¹³

Does Mounjaro show up in a routine blood test? The UK Mounjaro patient leaflet lists raised pancreatic enzymes and raised calcitonin in blood tests as common side effects (up to 1 in 10 people). If you expect to have bloods or any other tests, mention your treatment to whoever is organising them and ask your prescriber.

Is Ozempic a weight-loss medicine? Ozempic is semaglutide licensed for type 2 diabetes. It is not a UK weight-loss medicine, and prescribing it privately for weight loss is off-label. The licensed weight-management options are Mounjaro (tirzepatide) and Wegovy (semaglutide 2.4mg).

Counterfeit medicines are a real risk with weight loss injections sold online. The MHRA publishes counterfeit medicine alerts and runs the Yellow Card scheme.⁷ Buy only from a pharmacy listed on the GPhC register, and be wary of any seller offering to supply without a consultation or prescription. Our Mounjaro is supplied through official LillyDirect supply as genuine KwikPens.

Storage: keep unopened pens in the fridge until first use, and they keep until the printed expiry date. Once in use, a KwikPen can be kept out of the fridge at a temperature not above 30°C for up to 30 days after first use, and must then be thrown away. Do not use a pen that has been above 30°C or frozen.¹ Follow the pen's instructions for injecting, and use the sharps bin we supply.

10 · Staying on treatment

Staying on treatment: titration, reviews and stopping

Treatment is a course, not a one-off purchase. Mounjaro starts at the 2.5mg pen and your prescriber steps the dose up through 5mg, 7.5mg, 10mg, 12.5mg and 15mg depending on how you respond. If you step up after 4 weeks on each dose, your first four pens (2.5mg to 10mg) cost £959.96 at standard prices, before discounts.

Not everyone needs the highest dose. Some settle at 5mg, some higher. In SURMOUNT-1, average losses were 15% on 5mg, 19.5% on 10mg and 20.9% on 15mg over 72 weeks, with individual results varying.² A higher dose is not automatically the right dose for you; the prescriber decides at your monthly reviews.

The monthly cost of staying on treatment depends on where you settle. A first year costs £2,711.88 at 5mg, up to £3,599.88 at 15mg. For 7.5mg, 10mg or 12.5mg, the standard monthly prices are £279.99, £290.99 and £319.99. Every later order is £25 off the standard price with code DOSE25.

What happens if you stop? In SURMOUNT-4, people who stopped tirzepatide after 36 weeks regained on average 14% of body weight over the following year, while those who continued treatment lost a further 5.5% on average.¹⁴ Stopping should always be planned with your prescriber, with diet and activity habits ready to carry the load.

Because tirzepatide has a half-life of about five days, it takes roughly 4 to 5 weeks to clear the system after a final dose, and nothing needs doing while it clears.¹

If the dose is not working for you or side effects trouble you, tell the prescribing team and they will advise within the licence.

Aftercare is part of the service: ongoing monthly reviews, dose titration, follow-up assessments and side-effect support. Repeat orders re-check suitability and nothing auto-ships, so you stay in control of when each pen is sent. The free GLPTrackr app helps you log doses and progress between reviews.

Ready to see if you qualify? Start with the free consultation. It takes a few minutes, carries no obligation, and a GPhC-registered prescriber reviews it. Payment is taken when you place the order, and refunded automatically in full if the prescriber decides treatment is not suitable.

11 · Serious side effects

Serious side effects: when to get help straight away

Serious side effects are uncommon but need urgent attention. Seek immediate medical help for: severe, persistent stomach pain that may spread to your back, with or without vomiting (possible pancreatitis); pain in the upper right abdomen, fever or yellowing of skin/eyes (possible gallbladder problems); or signs of a severe allergic reaction such as swelling of the face or throat and difficulty breathing. If you take insulin or a sulfonylurea alongside Mounjaro, watch for low blood sugar (shakiness, sweating, confusion) — your prescriber may need to adjust those medicines.¹