Staying on 2.5mg for longer

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Does anyone have experience of staying on 2.5mg for longer than one month? I’m doing well. 8-10 lbs in 2 weeks. I know that is likely to be the first woosh. I have good suppression. (Third jab yesterday)

just wondering if the reason for going up is because people are starting to lose suppression or not losing. I have no side-effects I’m happy with the low-dose so far it would just be interesting to see others’ reasoning if you don’t mind?

I think it’s fine and that’s what I’m trying to do - my approach is to try and stay on the lowest dose for as long as possible, even if I’m only losing 1lb a week, and only go up once the lack of suppression and food noise return to a point where I need the additional help. I think the lower the dose, the fewer the side effects and I’m good with that. I’m currently on 2.5 and on week 5 and I intend to stay on it for as long as possible, even if it’s just the loading dose and not the therapeutic/recommended one after the first month. And if and when I do need to go up, rather than jumping to 5, I’m going to go up to 3.75 and try and stay on that for as long as I can. Good luck.

It’s totally fine to stay on any dose that you feel is working for you.

I moved up from 2.5 because I had food noise back and am a wuss! 😂 I then stayed on 5mg for 5 months as it was doing exactly what I wanted it to.

I’ve been on 2.5 for 11 weeks x

I’ve just ordered pen 3 - dose 2.5
have lost 8kg so far -
weight loss has stalled over last week, but going to try and stay low dose

I stayed on it for 2 months. I was on 5mg for 2 months, 7.5mg for 2 months and now 10mg for my 3rd month .

Take it at your own pace, see how it works for you.

Just starting week 16 on 2.5 and loosing 1.5-2.5 lbs a week and suppression is still really good so eating within deficit really easily.

I've lost 37lbs and have no intention of increasing.

I did 3 months in 2.5 no need to move up if you don’t need to .

I only did 1 pen of 2.5 (5 weeks as did bonus dose) however I've had 3 pens of 5mg as I feel really settled on it at the moment (although this week I'm hungry 😂)

I've been on 1.75mg every 5 days since February. So me of us just don't need to go up.

If it's working for you then stick on it - I've been on MJ since October and I've only just ordered a pen to move up to 10mg... I think I did 2 months of 2.5 and then a couple of months of 5 and then I've been on 7.5 ever since - but I'm starting to get a lot of stalls (which I'm OK with cos it gives the one remaining collagen molecule in my old woman skin the chance to do some pinging back) and want to continue to maintain momentum so I'm moving up a bit.

I try not to chase massive suppression because I'm going to have to deal with it for the rest of my life so I just aim to turn the food noise dial down from a 10 to around a 5 by the end of a week! I can resist a 5.

Erm, you aren't taking a normal dose at the normal intervals - the question is why HAVENT you gone up?

I did 7 x 2.5 and thought I’d stay there,then felt it wasn’t working great so did 2 x 3.75, last week went to 5.
i don’t plan on going above 5 as I haven’t a huge amount left to lose

I'm 18 weeks on 2.5 and my next pen is also 2.5. I've lost 3 stone, although have noticed this week the food noise is a bit louder, bit I'm still tracking calories so know whilst it's been a bit difficult, have kept within my allowance.

I've been on 2.5mg nearly 6 months, just in the last 4 weeks I've gone up to about 3.1mg (I use syringes).
I'm very happy with trickling along at 1-2lb a week, lost 2 stone in total. I'm aiming for 8 stone altogether, if I stall for a few weeks I go up by another 10mg (a full dose in a syringe is 60). I am toning as I go, a lot of people I know have lost very rapidly and ended up with a lot of loose skin.
People will have opinions about it but they're no more medical experts than I am, and I know the risks and I know myself so I make these choices. I wouldn't arbitrarily take other medicines at a generic dose if a smaller dose would work better for me, so I don't with this.