First, you could quit the medication altogether. In fact, you can abruptly stop taking these drugs without any major side effects (except for Qsymia at its highest dose),according to Ethan Lazarus, MD, an obesity medicine specialist and owner of Clinical Nutrition Center in Greenwood Village, ...
at relatively lower or even normal levels; this combination is often referred to as unfavorable discordance. Unlike the general population, in this setting, where the population (i.e. insulin resistance, obesity, prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, high TG levels, low HDL-C levels, T2DM) is enrich...