Consideration: There is no "stopping" these meds.

[MsGizmo]

It’s not an attitude. If someone maintains disregulated blood pressure then they should continue to take medication. If their lifestyle habits and diet are able to get them to a place where their doctor thinks it a good idea to try stepping down to go their medication then I think it should be up to the patient and doctor. I had medical issues that required surgery in 2022 and my endocrinology team stepped me off of the medication I was on as it was no longer needed.

If someone absolutely wants to be on medication that’s between them and their doctor. I just think it’s ridiculous to insist everyone who’s ever taken a peptide protocol is stuck on it for life. I don’t agree with strangers telling one another they must continue to be on something until they die, it takes the autonomy away from the individual.

I have yet to see anyone claiming that we all MUST stay on GLP1s for life. What I have seen is some people saying that they are planning on it for themselves. I am in that group. We have accepted that it is what WE probably need. Sure inactivity and poor eating habits have played its part ... but there are many other causes of obesity and for most of us we are dealing with MULTIPLE causes.

Frankly .. at the end f the day what we do is none of your business. Just like you don't want anyone telling you that you MUST be on a drug for life .. YOU don't get to tell anyone that they shouldn't continue taking something that is helping them. Be it real or imagined.

 

[50ShadesGreyMarket]

I have yet to see anyone claiming that we all MUST stay on GLP1s for life. What I have seen is some people saying that they are planning on it for themselves. I am in that group. We have accepted that it is what WE probably need. Sure inactivity and poor eating habits have played its part ... but there are many other causes of obesity and for most of us we are dealing with MULTIPLE causes.

Frankly .. at the end f the day what we do is none of your business. Just like you don't want anyone telling you that you MUST be on a drug for life .. YOU don't get to tell anyone that they shouldn't continue taking something that is helping them. Be it real or imagined.

If you read my original comment and the reply that implied I was saying something I wasn’t it puts it in context. I think each person has their own journey with peptides, for some that will be lifelong but for others, I don’t think that has to be the case. I posed that scenario in my first response to the thread. I never said anybody should or shouldn’t do anything. I was the one pushing back against the “must be on forever” narrative. I think it’s up to the individual.

In the real world, if you insist someone can or cannot achieve a goal when you know nothing about them they would probably tell you to go F*** yourself. Most folks don’t put up with that.