Appropriate reasons to discuss discontinuation include achieving your weight loss goals and wanting to attempt weight maintenance without medication, experiencing intolerable side effects that don't improve with dose adjustment or supportive management, financial constraints that make continued treatment unsustainable, planning pregnancy (semaglutide is not recommended during pregnancy and should be discontinued at least two months before conception), or developing contraindications to continued use
It then helps facilitate the much-needed recovery that follows (which is when the muscle-growing magic happens)
This space traps a tiny amount of liquid that is not injected
Patients with persistent vomiting, severe abdominal pain, dehydration, inability to tolerate food, bowel-obstruction symptoms, or sudden vision changes should seek medical care promptly
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