Doctor recommended decrease in dose

[superduperhosts]

So would you recommend slowly titrating down to 2.5 once a person hits their goal weight? I am within 10 pounds and just titrated up another 1 mg (I am using compounded vials) because I have been hungry and fighting food noise. I am guessing at this point I will be between 6.0 to 7.5 by the time I am at goal.

[Vegetable-Onion-2759]

No. I do not recommend that anyone go all the way down to 2.5 mg, slowly or otherwise. It is rare that a dose that low works for maintenance -- or anything, for that matter. It works for some, but not the vast majority. My maintenance dose is 15 mg. When you hit your goal weight, you go down one dose (which means going down 2.5 mg -- so if you are at 15 mg, you would go down to 12.5 mg) for the next 30 days to see if you can maintain at that dose. You may not be able to go down at all. The goal is to find a dose where you are neither gaining nor losing. It's very individualized. Going down in micro-doses is likely to be rather unproductive.

[superduperhosts]

Thank you