Medical Weight Loss In Malta, Assessed Before Prescribed

Generally, the programme is for adults in Malta or Gozo with a BMI of 30,0 or above, or 27,0 to 29,9 with a weight-related condition such as high blood pressure, insulin resistance or sleep apnoea. It is not suitable during pregnancy or breastfeeding, after pancreatitis, with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer or MEN2, or with a history of an eating disorder. The final decision is always a doctor's, made with you on your video consultation, and if medical treatment is not right for you, we say so and point you to support that is.

You answer a free health pre-assessment online, then book your appointment and pay for your consultation at that point. At the time you chose, a Malta-registered doctor spends 20 minutes on video with you, having already read your answers. There is nothing to install and nowhere to drive to.

The online pre-assessment is free. You pay €59 when you book, and that is what covers your 20-minute intake consultation with the doctor. The €29 a month starts only after you have been seen. Your private prescription, where it is clinically appropriate, comes out of that consultation. When your prescription runs out, ask for a renewal. Your doctor reviews it and, if it is still right for you, the new prescription is emailed to you. WhatsApp support when something changes. That month also covers your check-ins and dose adjustments, guidance on food and movement that fits your life, and an optional body-composition scan at our clinic in Floriana. Weight loss is sold as a 3, 6 or 12-month course, so three months comes to €146 in total, six months to €233, and twelve to €407. A consultation is always €59. If you want another one in a later month, that month is €59 instead of €29. If the doctor prescribes, the medicine is a separate purchase. Collect at any pharmacy in Malta or Gozo. You pay the pharmacy directly, at its own price. We never sell or ship medicine.

If the doctor prescribes, the medicine is a separate purchase. Collect at any pharmacy in Malta or Gozo. You pay the pharmacy directly, at its own price. We never sell or ship medicine. Our fees pay for the doctor's time and the care that follows it, never for a medicine. What you pay the pharmacy depends on what your doctor prescribes, so we will not quote you a number that is not ours to promise. What we will do is tell you honestly what to expect before you commit to anything. If the doctor prescribes, your private digital prescription is emailed to you as soon as the doctor issues it, usually straight after the call. It also sits in your patient portal, and you collect it at any pharmacy in Malta or Gozo, whichever one you choose.

Every effective medicine has them, and pretending otherwise is how people get hurt. The most common side effects of weight loss treatment are usually digestive and usually strongest in the first weeks, settling as your treatment is adjusted slowly. Rare but serious side effects exist, which is why the doctor screens carefully before prescribing and reviews you throughout. If anything feels wrong, you message us and your doctor adjusts your plan. Honest expectations are part of safe care.

Slower than an advert would tell you, and steadier than you have managed alone. Medical weight loss is measured over months, not weeks, and your doctor will set honest expectations on your consultation based on your starting point rather than promising you a number. Steady is the point: we are building weight loss you can keep, not a crash you will repeat. We also track more than the scale, because energy, sleep and how your clothes feel matter too.

Not necessarily. Some people use it as a bridge while they build eating and movement habits that hold on their own; others benefit from longer-term use under medical supervision. We will be honest with you: stopping without a maintenance plan often leads to regain, which is why your programme includes one from the start. Your doctor reviews this with you regularly; it is a decision you make together, never a default.

Not month by month, and we would rather tell you that before you start than after. Sold as a 3, 6 or 12-month course, and three months is the minimum. Less than that and there is not enough time to judge whether the treatment is working for you. You choose your length at the outset and stay with it, and at the end of your course, continuing is a decision you make again. Stopping treatment itself is a separate and clinical matter: if your health changes or something is not right, you tell us, and a doctor reviews it with you.

Your answers are read by a Malta-registered doctor, who then sees you for 20 minutes on video, backed by the Carisma Wellness Group and a real clinic at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana. The doctor screens for the conditions that make treatment unsafe, nothing is approved without that call, and a prescription is written by the doctor only when clinically appropriate. If the doctor would not prescribe it to a family member in your situation, they will not prescribe it to you.