Sara

And so I went in for one of my check-ins and I, and I told him what was going on and he's like, yeah, he's like, this is just a sign that like, you don't need this high dose anymore.

Yeah.

He's like, you need to, you know, like it's time, like you're, when you started on it, you were heavier, you had more body mass and, you know, you needed more of this drug.

And now you're the...

You know, you've lost a bunch of weight and you're really at your ideal weight.

You don't need to be taking this much, you know, because because if I had continued to take that higher dose, I would have lost even more weight and maybe experienced even more side effects.

So he's like, OK, you know, you're having some abdominal cramp and you just like start to you don't want a cold turkey.

Like you don't want to go from your high dose to like micro dosing.

You want to like taper that shit.

Yeah, you could get some side effects.

Because, particularly with your blood sugar, because one of the fantastic things that these drugs do is that they regulate your blood sugar very well.

That's why diabetics take it.

Yeah, that's right.

So if you were to be on a normal dose of this drug and then you go to take none of it at all, you no longer have that... Controlled.

Yeah, the GLP-1 is no longer regulating that blood sugar for you and you'll have like crazy blood sugar spikes and that...

feels horrible.

Yeah, that's scary.

And it's not healthy.

And so my doctor is like, you know, you just need to like taper it down.

And so that's what I started doing, just really tapering it down nice and easy.