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What you can sustain, and your visit brief

India is a cost conscious market and almost nobody is reimbursed for any of this, so what you can afford is not a detail at the end of the conversation. It is the first question, because an option you cannot keep up is not really an option. This works that out, then prints a page for you to bring.

Build your brief

Four minutes. Nothing is sent anywhere; the print happens on your device.

Comfortably, not at a stretch. The stretch figure is the one that stops in month five when something else comes up. Include medicines, consultations and tests.

These are the things that change what is appropriate. Ticking them here saves the first ten minutes of the appointment.

Your brief

Print this and bring it, or take a photograph of the screen.

Name:

Weight:   Height:   BMI:

Where I am:

What I can sustain:

Things that apply to me:

    What I want answered:

      Doctor's notes:

      Privacy. Everything you type into the tools in this section is worked out inside your own browser and stays on your own device. Nothing is sent to us, nothing is stored on any server, and nobody at the clinic sees it. Close the page and it is gone.

      Why the budget question comes first

      It is the question patients expect to be asked last, apologetically, after the medical decision has been made. That order is backwards.

      Weight regain after stopping treatment is well documented: most of the loss returns within a year, and the improvements in blood pressure, waist and cholesterol go back with it. So a course you can only afford for four months buys you the expense, the regain, and a belief that treatment does not work. The published evidence makes that not a close call.

      Which means the honest sequence is: work out what you can sustain, rule out everything you cannot, and then choose the best option from what is left. The best treatment for you is the best one you can keep going. That is not a compromise or a consolation, it is the correct clinical answer, and on the outcome that actually matters it is usually not even close.

      Ask us the cost question directly. Not "what do you recommend", but "what would each option cost me every month, and for how long would I need it". It is a completely reasonable question, it is the most important one in the room, and it is asked far too rarely out of politeness.

      What is not in the budget, and should be

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      About the figures on this page

      Every number here comes from a named, published clinical trial and is reported as what happened to the people in that trial. None of it is a result from this clinic, a prediction for you, or a promise. Trial populations are selected and individual results vary widely. The trials are named in the reference line above so that you, or any doctor, can look them up.

      If you want to talk about what any of it means for your own situation, our contact details and consulting hours are at the bottom of every page in this section, and our fees are published in full on the cost page.