What will happen if I stop taking Wegovy?
- Obesity is considered to be a long-term chronic health condition, just like diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. If you were taking medicines to help manage those diseases, and you stopped them, you would expect your blood sugar, blood pressure or cholesterol to go back up too. Obesity is the same type of chronic disease and the leading cause of those other diseases, so we fully expect that if you stop the medication, over time you will gradually start to regain weight because your appetite will return.
- As weight-loss specialists, The Virtual Slimming Clinic understand that our plan for patients is chronic use of these medications. It is often the case that “maintenance” of weight loss can be achieved where people don’t need to take the medication every week, they may take it less frequently, for example several times a month, but chronic use is what we anticipate in order to keep the weight off.
- Combining changes in lifestyle will also help patients remain at a healthy weight.
