Insurance denied me AGAIN - I am so frustrated

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

VendorMark said:

Financial impact of cost and coverage weight loss beyond medication cost: Groceries: SAVED $246/month (eating less) Restaurants: SAVED $176/month…

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.

One concrete data point for the thread. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

One thing that is still open after VendorMark’s answer:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

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