Medical Weight Management

Lose weight safely & maintain with our new medical weight loss injections – Saxenda®

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Medical Weight Management – Saxenda®

Saxenda® is a daily self-administered medication that is like a natural hormone that is released in the body just after eating. It triggers areas in your brain that control appetite, making you feel fuller & more satisfied and less hungry
It should be used by adult patients between the ages of 18 & 75 with a body mass index of over 30 and an excess weight who are struggling with their weight problems.

It can help people lose weight and keep it off by reducing their calorie intake and increasing their physical activity. It can also be used in combination with a healthy diet and regular exercise.
Although this medication can help people lose weight, it can also cause side effects. It’s important to regularly check-in with your practitioner to make sure that the medication is working properly.

Treatment Summary

  • Price

    From £425

  • Sensitivity

    0 Hours

  • anaesthetic

    None

  • procedure

    30 mins

  • recovery

    None

  • treatment
    intervals

    Daily

FAQS ABOUT SAXENDA®

Saxenda® is a type of liraglutide prescription injection that is available for qualifying patients through authorised practitioner specialists.

Saxenda® works to help patients lose weight and keep it off by helping to regulate the body’s natural feelings of being hungry and full. It mimics the body’s naturally produced hormone glucagon-like-peptide (GLP-1) that is used to help regulate the feelings of hunger people experience, and control blood sugar and digestion.

This in turn causes patients using Saxenda® to eat fewer calories, which leads to weight loss.

Everyone’s weight is unique to them, and their weight loss results will be just as unique. Weight loss is dependent on several factors and the same is true for patients who use Saxenda® injections to assist them on their weight loss journey.

Your weight management specialist can help you understand how much weight is reasonable to lose for you based on your age, height, current weight, overall health, physical activity level, eating habits, stress levels and sleep habits.

All of these, plus many other factors, contribute to a person’s overall weight and will impact their ability to lose weight. Along with Saxenda®, patients should be following a healthy, nutritious, reduced calorie diet and increase their physical activity level.

Each session takes 30 minutes and every client will have a minimum of 6 treatments. We usually recommend that all 6 treatments be completed over the space of 2 weeks, but recognise that if you have your period midway through treatment, a pause will be necessary that won’t undermine the effectiveness of the course.

Are you aged between 18 and 75?

Have a BMI of 30 or more?

Have a BMI of 27 with a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes, High cholesterol, or heart disease?

Not sure of your BMI? Use this calculator to find out:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-weight/bmi-calculator/

Saxenda® is a once-a-day self-injection pre-filled pen. Your practitioner will give you full training on best practice for self-injection.

Saxenda® is increased over five weeks of the programme at the following intervals:

Week 1 0.6mg daily
Week 2 1.2mg daily
Week 3 1.8mg daily
Week 4 2.4mg daily
Week 5 3.0mg daily

Saxenda® can be injected at any time of the day independent of meals. When you start you will work out a convenient time to fit around your schedule.

Saxenda® most common side effect when you first start is nausea, but this will decrease over time as your body gets used to the medicine. Your weight loss practitioner can guide you on how to elevate the symptoms of this.

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