What happens when people stop the injections?

[IndigoBluey]

Just this really, when you reach your desired weight following the course of weight loss injections, do you stop taking the injections whilst sticking to a much healthier way of eating? I’m genuinely curious as to how it works in the long term. A friend of mine had stomach surgery a few years ago to shrink her stomach and very rapidly went from 18 to 9 stone, but then put a lot of weight back on gradually, to then start on WL injections. I suppose my question is when you know you are finished with needed the injections?

That’s not my understanding, plenty of posts from diabetics that when blood sugar becomes normal the nhs moves them immediately to other meds due to cost. Can you link to the policy you refer?

Really? My mother has been on Mounjaro for diabetes for some while. It’s working well for her blood sugar. She wasn’t especially overweight but has lost some weight. No one has suggested taking her off a medication which is controlling her blood sugar well because it is controlling her blood sugar well. If she came off the medication, her blood sugar would no longer be well controlled. Metformin wasn’t working for her; that’s why Mounjaro was prescribed.

Similarly, another close relative has been on ozempic for diabetes for over a decade.

Neither of them have been prescribed the medication for weightloss, but for blood sugar control.

Does anyone know if the reduction in inflammation is from losing weight? Or is it something else in the drug itself that’s reducing inflammation?

@KilliMonjaro for me it was noticeable within a few days, so not just the weightloss, and I’ve seen a lot of people say similar.

It's an odd question because I think a lot of us who are using WLI wonder why people who aren't using it them, who have no need to and no interest in using them, are so interested in the medication we are using.
There are endless faux 'concerned' posts about long term side effects or what'll happen when we stop using them. And it's weird. All of them. This one, the last one, the next one. So much strange interest in the meds strangers are using to treat a disease. I don't see any similar threads wondering what happens when people stop taking anti depressants or stop wearing their reading glasses!

I wonder what the science is behind that. Thanks for sharing ☺️

My friend stopped and immediately gained 5kg so went back on it. I think she’ll try and stay in the lowest dose if she can.

Yes, so do I! I initially got interested in trying to find out about it, and relatedly how MJ helps with PCOS. But then I settled down to just enjoy the benefits. Looking forward to happening upon a nice helpful popular article on it all one day, though. Please share if you find anything.

Im done with them and I know this because my stomach is rebelling every time I have them and for the first time .making me feel ill and gassy.
I've got to goal weight. I'm on 7.5mgs, my stomach has shrunk hugely so Im sure I can keep the weight off now.
Im going down to 5mgs next month, then 2.5.gs then off.
I've been on MJ for over a year and I've been gradually weaning myself off.

So you've answered your own question and you faux innocence was just another way to bash fat people.

I simply stated a fact, I don’t know why you keep putting the world friend in commas. Surely, you realise that we all have friends with similar experiences. If losing weight / gaining weight / regaining weight wasn’t an issue, there would be no discussion to be had.

Not quite, if you read the thread, my response was to @HansHolbein

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne you shouldn’t call people fat, it is a really hurtful term and often used by those who lack intelligence and can’t think of any other insult to use. Much like people who use the F and C bomb which from looking at your posts, unsurprisingly you have form for.

Sounds like they have worked so far as they can and you have a good attitude to next steps. Hope you feel better and well done on getting to you goal weight, it can’t have been easy

Fat isn't a hurtful term 🙄

I think most of us here would prefer the factually accurate fat (or obese where appropriate) than the posts that might not use fat but do call us lazy, stupid, cheating, stealing from diabetics etc. The former is far less offensive.
Knowing @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne 's progress on WLI they have more than earned the right to use the word fat if they chose to.

Cheating on diabetics!!! Don't you just love that. Im sick of hearing it.

Hit goal weight, come off jabs, see how I go. If I can’t manage without the support of MJ then I’ll be on MJ to treat my obesity for my whole life, very much like those on blood pressure medication (which hopefully I won’t need because of the MJ). The biggest difference should actually be to the NHS, my prescription is private so costing them nothing and being a healthier weight should mean I need less from the system.
Caveat to the above - even if I do manage to maintain without MJ should my carpal tunnel and/or tendon issues resurface I’ll be back on for maintenance straight away! Living without pain and inflammation is worth double the money I spend monthly on MJ

I didn’t put the word friend into commas. I paraphrased what you said and put quotation marks around it

That post with the ‘good attitude’ is telling though; we have erstwhile fatties with a ‘good’ attitude who have seen the error of their ways and fatties who do not, who are doomed to gain it all again, it’s more nuanced than that.

I came off MJ a year ago after losing 4 stone. What happened was that I carried on counting calories at maintenance level and continued my exercise plan. I have remained within 2lbs of my goal weight since I stopped taking MJ.

Yep, fact is there's a context here. Which is not the fault of any one individual, but it's also not something that can be opted out of. If you choose to raise the issue, particularly when you haven't done a basic search first, you've made a decision to wade into said context.

That being said, I don't personally mind discussing the issue. I'm at a normal BMI now and intend to remain on a maintenance WLI dose.

11 months out from stopping injections and I'm still over half a stone lighter than when I stopped.

Of course you'll put weight back on if you go back to old habits.

I’m not quitting taking it. The medication has worked for me so why would I stop?

I take a low dose and am maintaining 8 stone 4. I have no doubt that if I stopped taking it, I would become obese again. Same as if my DB stopped taking his epilepsy medication his epileptic seizures would return.

Those of you that have reached goal and stopped the jabs, did the food noise come back and if it did how do you deal with it?

I don’t think it’s an odd question to wonder about and find some of these responses a bit bizarre.

I have a friend that wants to go on the jabs thinking it’s a quick easy fix and that you don’t need to bother about portion control or exercise.

I reckon that if you believe that then every pound lost will go back on the minute you stop as you’ve made no efforts to change what made you overweight in the first place.