To wonder what happens when you reach a healthy weight on Wegovy etc?

[Milsonophonia]

I have three friends who were mildly overweight who've used Wegovy. All are now looking very slim - one looks a bit frail - she's lost 3 stone. Two of them lied online about their weight to get it. Anyway, they are happy with their new thinness and the new reasrch that it's a potential wonder drug.

What happens when you stop? Do you get the anti inflammatory benefits forever? Or does everything on your body return to how it was - hunger back, no anti inflammatory benefits?

I'm constantly tempted - have a bmi of 29 and need to lose a good stone and a half - but can't seem to find anything about people who have stopped the drug.

Also I'm slightly worried one of my friends is going to disappear, as she's already thin but still taking it. Can you just take it forever?

Thank you both @SilenceInside and @Hoplolly

That's really helpful. I may be able to order one this month if it's nearer £100.

I've been on MJ for 16 weeks and lost 3st. Just 3lbs left till I hit bmi 25 but will continue until I get to bmi 22-23. After that, I intend to stay on a low maintenance dose for as long as I can. I've been dieting for 50 years now, on and off, so as far as I'm concerned no one can teach me anything about diet, exercise and lifestyle 'choices'.

Nothing has worked as well as MJ, including helping me kick a bottle of wine a day habit. I'm 58, post menopausal, and, luckily, reasonably healthy with no known chronic health conditions, but I have a family history of heart disease, high BP, T2D, stroke, dementia and poor mental health. If I have to take this or an alternative for the foreseeable future, so be it - the research showing positive benefits for all of these conditions is building rapidly and having done a risk/benefit analysis, it's the best available option for me currently and Ibelieve will save the NHS an awful lot of time and money.

I'd love to stay on a maintenance dose @KrankyKumquat but there's no way I could afford that long term, so once I get to goal I'll be offer the MJ and relying on willpower and my new fitness regime (which I needed to do anyway, and I intended to keep up with to limit my risk of all the same risks you've mentioned, I am high risk for all of that!)

They're expensive but if you work out how much you spend on snacks and junk food, takeaways etc that you'll save

@Hoplolly
Yes, the cost is really tough and I'm sorry you won't be able to continue if that's what you'd prefer to do. I'm pretty confident the costs will come down in time as licences expire, generics are released and alternatives are developed so there is hope.
I'm just so exhausted by my life being dominated by weight so will sacrifice pretty much everything and anything that's non-essential to ensure I can continue. A year's supply will cost around £1800 maximum (plus factor in savings on food, etc) at today's prices so I'm very fortunate to be able to get my hands on that and if it means no 2 week holiday in Spain, I'll do that 😐