It is now even more popular than Botox among celebrities: the Ozempic diabetes drug. Henk Westbroek is now also honest that he uses it. “5,000 euros per year.”
Ozempic is intended for diabetic patients, but has now also been used en masse as a slimming agent. Well-known people at home and abroad inject themselves for a tighter waist. Not without criticism: shortages arise for people who really need it and moreover it would seduce people into lazy behavior.
Expensive intake
Henk also does it out of laziness. He had had enough of it that he ate himself further and further out of his shirt. Attempts with walking and a dog had little effect, so he went to a real obesity clinic. No diabetes, but overweight. And so: pierce it, but not reimbursed by the health insurer.
A Belgian doctor has made everything in order, he says in the Weekend. “He went through my medication list and said,” Well, fine. ” And then I was allowed to pay 1,100 euros for that consultation.
22 kilos
The result is amazing, says Henk. “You just do that for a year and then you lose 22 kilos. And I don’t have any otherwise,” he says. Is it ready now? No. He still needs ‘around ten’.
According to him, that will work. “Because of Ozempic I just have less appetite, I am full faster. Instead of taking three fried eggs in the morning, what I really liked, I now take one. And then I think: Pooh, I just get it. That is how it works.”
5,000 euros
However, the costs are enormous if you have to pay it yourself, says Henk. “It costs a lot of money. What I spent in a year? 250 euros per month, so 3,000 euros. Plus 1,100 euros for the intake interview. After half a year you will get a semi-intake interview, that is also 500 euros.”
He concludes: “So it costs you almost 5,000 euros a year. In short, you have to have a little money to afford that. That is why it is so scandalous that it is not in the basic insurance package.”