Has anyone stayed on a lower dose of weight loss injections long term and still lost a lot?

[MoneyJo]

I did a month on 2.5, a week on 3.75 and tomorrow will be my 6th dose of 5. I am still having decent suppression and little food noise so I am hoping to keep the price down and stay on 5mgs long term.
Has anyone else been able to stay on a lower dose long term without having to go up the doses? Just wondering if I am deluding myself and will have to go up as time passes.

I've lost 1 and a half stone since starting at the beginning of March but have another 5 and a half stone I would like to lose.

I've lost 7 stone in 14 months, 9 months on 2.5, faffed about for 3 months with 3, 3.5, 3.75 and stalled. Moved to 5 in February and started losing again. Don't plan on going any higher. Another 1.5 stone to go.

My losses were quite good in the first 6 or so months then they slowed and the last 6 months I have only lost a stone so very slow now. I’m happy with my weight now but I still need another stone off to hit that ‘healthy’ zone. I’m in no rush now and if it takes another 6 months or even a year that’s ok, after losing 9 stone I already feel so ‘normal’!

Good going!

I lost 4st on 2.5 & then another 1st on 5, took me 6 months

Wow that's a pretty quick loss @Boymum2104 well done!

No. I had to go by the book. Had been a serial dieter which inevitably led to insulin resistance. So 4 weeks 2.5mg, 4 weeks 5mg and so on up to 15mg where I stayed for 5 months before titration down. Lost 8 stone in 11 months. 20 st to 9 st. Have maintained of 5 mg for 15 months and do not move the scales more than a kg up or down .

After decades of yoyo dieting I lost 9st 10lbs over 18 months on my highest dose of 3.75mg to reach a healthy BMI for the first time in 35+ years! Maintaining for 5 months now.

I'm not sure if I even had to increase to 3.75mg, but I did as back then I was told by my provider to increase so I thought I had to and wanted to do slowly.

I never had any major side effects, but I didn't increased for a few reasons -

• I didn't like the intense initial suppression I had in the first couple of months, I was happy with the food noise reduction
• I wanted to stay low due to cost of highest doses
• I decided to stay on each dose until the end of each pen (6 weeks), during this I learnt that some days or even weeks the effects would be less but would kick back in the following week - at this point I decided I would stay on the same dose unless I consistently struggled to keep to my calorie deficit for at least 3-4 weeks
• I started HRT around 6 months into my weight loss and increasing MJ dose would have meant contacting my GP to change my HRT dose (it would have affected my oral progesterone) - that also encouraged me not to increase unless needed

It is possible to, and many do, lose substantial weight on the lower doses but it is dependent on a few factors, some within our control (expectations, consistent and effective changes to diet, reducing stress, improving sleep, managing emotional eating, even hydration) and some outside (response to medication, hormonal factors, metabolic differences, other health conditions).

My OH has been on MJ for around a year. First 6 months on 2.5mg, then 6 months on 3.75mg and still losing. She’s gone from 13st to just under 10st and is just into the “healthy” BMI. That’s 23% of body weight.

Despite the patient leaflet advising to move up to 5mg after 4 weeks for a therapeutic dose, their own trials at 1.25mg showed it to be therapeutic versus placebo.

Really interesting thanks.

I will aim to stay on 5mg but might get a 7.5 pen next to make it cheaper.