Emma Dyer remembers the moment she clicked "buy now" on a set of weight‑loss jabs she found online. She had no medical consultation, no ID checks, and no questions about her history of anorexia and bulimia. "It was just so easy - too easy," she says. "They never asked for my medical history or what medication I was taking. It was like buying groceries."
Except you weren't ordering cornflakes and crackers, and you knew that.
Within days of taking the injections, Emma collapsed on her bathroom floor and thought she was going to die.
She didn't, Reader. She survived to deman ACTION! on her behalf.
Emma had a history of eating disorders. She says she had reached a healthy weight, felt stable, and was working in a job she enjoyed. But a single comment from a customer who she said told her "you looked a lot better when you were skinnier", sent her spiralling.
Oh, well.
The 40-year-old, from Carlton in Nottinghamshire, said the website she used offered no safeguards. She says it only asked for her body mass index (BMI), which she was able to lie about. "If they'd checked my medical history with my GP, I don't think I would've been eligible," she says. "My BMI was normal. I just wasn't in the right headspace to make a logical decision."
And a website is supposed to know that?
When the injections arrived back in March 2024, the instructions were "poorly printed", Emma says. Not realising she needed to start on a low dose, she injected a medium one.
So she can't read either.
She has now decided to share her story in the hope others will think twice before ordering weight-loss jabs online.
I've no intention of thinking even once about ordering medication (after self-diagnosing) from the Internet, thanks. Because I'm not a moron.
9 comments:
S'funny how it's always somebody else's fault . . .
We must, as a society, be consistent. If thinking you are a woman allows you to be treated as if you are in fact a woman then thinking you are fat must allow you to be treated as if you are in fact fat.
So any doctor who wanted to keep his job would have prescribed weight loss drugs.
As the old saying goes, " You can't Fix Stupidity".
Although she nearly did fix it for herself - for ever.
"........it only asked about her BMI, which she was able to lie about ......." , and suddenly, it's someone else's fault. Unfortunately, it's not unlawful for stupid people to make stupid decisions, but when those actions have unintended consequences, please do not expand your stupidity by blaming someone else (unless you're successive governments).
Penseivat
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
We should just get rid of all laws that punish suppliers because people are stupid. It should sort itself out in a few years.
Exactly. This is the thinking level of a toddler, not a grown woman
If only,
Yes!
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