Our office offers board certified obesity medicine care to help you achieve your goals!
It's no secret that losing weight is difficult, and maintaining weight loss can be even more difficult. For more on why it's so hard to lose weight, check out our blog post here. Even with the right lifestyle changes in place, sometimes additional support is needed, which is where we can help.
Along with coming up with individual lifestyle modifications, there are many medications to choose from, and we'd love to go through these with you, look at the pros and cons, and together decide on what may be in your best overall interest. Check out what we can offer below. Our medical weight loss program is included in our primary care membership or can be subscribed to virtually by itself to patients in North Carolina. Membership covers the initial visit plus all follow ups, both those in person and those by video visit, phone, email, or text. The cost of medications is not included though we will help fight with your insurance on your behalf to try and get them covered. For those that need medication help but can't access namebrand options, we can prescribe compounding medications like semaglutide (for the right candidate).
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FDA approved name brand options (Wegovy or Zepbound) should be tried first, but if those are not options (because of insurance coverage issues, cost, supply problems, etc) then compounded options could be explored. Compounded medications for weight loss have not undergone formal studies or trials, so there is no data for the FDA to look at to give their formal approval. Keeping that in mind, the risks and benefits of using compounded medications should be discussed with Dr. Bartkoski with your individual health information at the forefront of that discussion. The known risks of untreated and worsening obesity (such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, etc) should be weighed against the theoretical risks of compounded medications, and if the benefits outweigh the risks, they can be considered.
Holly Springs Direct Primary Care
1100 Holly Springs Road, Suite 203. Holly Springs, NC 27540.
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