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UPDATE: 12 weeks off Zempic with hypothyroidism. I have good news. A lot of you have been asking me to come back and update what happened. So here it is… First - thank you to everyone who commented on my original post. Seriously. I was losing my mind and you all made me feel like I wasn't crazy. So many of you were in the exact same trap. The "I can't afford this forever but I can't stop either" trap. Yeah. That one. Quick background for anyone new: My name Is Naomi and I have hypothyroidism ( coming from my hashimotos) For 6 years I did everything. Every diet. Keto. Carnivore. Fasting. Whatever was supposed to work for "people like us." I got down to 800 calories a day. Somedays not eating at all out of desperation. And I kept gaining weight anyway. My doctor kept telling me my TSH was normal. Meanwhile I'm watching my face get puffy. All my cute clothing stop fitting. The scale going up every week by 3.8 pounds eating nothing. And my doctor would look at me like I'm making it up. 6 years of that. Then I got on Ozempic. And for the first time... it just worked. The weight was actually coming off. I was actually able to eat alfredo pasta without gaining weight. I literally cried the first time I stepped on the scale and it went down. 6 years of nothing working. And something finally worked even though I couldn't understand why it did. But there was a problem. $900 a month. Out of pocket. Insurance said no. And after 11 months I was like... I can't do this forever. But I thought " maybe my body has adjusted, let me try coming off of it." So I stopped. And that's when everything fell apart. Within 6 weeks I'd gained back 17.8 lbs. My face got puffy again. Like I didn't even look like myself in the mirror. The exhaustion. God. I was sleeping 10 hours and waking up like I hadn't slept at all. Same food. Same levo. Same everything. Just no shot. I went back on because what else was I supposed to do. And that's when I made my original post. Basically asking if anyone had ever actually gotten off this stuff without gaining everything back. Or if we're all just... stuck. Forever. And oh my god, the comments. "Yeah I've accepted I'll be on it for life." "I stopped 3 times and crashed every time." "Just budget for it, it's worth it." But then I went down a rabbit hole. in the group r/hashimotos subreddit where hypothyroid women actually talk. Not the main r/hypothyroidism sub where everyone just posts their labs. The other one. Where women are posting at like 2am because nothing's working and their doctors keep saying they're fine. And I found this thread. A woman asking the exact same question I asked. "Has anyone actually gotten off GLP-1 without crashing?" Most comments were the same doom and gloom. But there was one comment that stopped me cold. Someone who said she was a functional medicine doctor. Dr. Rebecca Collins.. 9 Years of Practice. And she explained WHY things were like this. Why GLP-1 Works but as soon as you get off you just crash. And what she said next made me sick.. She said GLP-1 doesn't actually fix anything. It just pauses everything. Your appetite. Your hunger signals. Your stress hormones. Your whole system slows down. Including the thing that's actually broken. But the broken thing is still broken underneath. You just can't feel it because everything's on pause. The explanation she gave me made everything just make sense. She explained it like this. Your body has these locks. When they open, you burn calories. T3 is the key that opens them. But when you have hypothyroidism and you've been starving yourself trying to lose weight for years... Your body stops making real keys. It starts making broken ones instead. Reverse T3. The broken keys look exactly like real keys. They slide right into the lock. But they don't turn. They just jam. Get stuck. And now the real keys can't even get in. Nothing opens. Nothing burns. No matter how little you eat. And your TSH can look totally normal the whole time. Because TSH just tells you keys are being made. It doesn't tell you if they're broken. Or if your locks are jammed shut. And here's the part that made me sick. Every diet I tried before Ozempic. Every calorie I cut. Every time I starved myself trying to fix this. My body thought I was in danger. So it panicked. Made MORE broken keys. Jammed my locks even tighter. I was literally making it worse for years. So if that's what's actually broken inside us... What was my GLP-1 doing this whole time? She explained that too. GLP-1 doesn't unjam anything. It just pauses everything. Your appetite. Your cravings. Your stress hormones. Your whole system slows down. Including the production of broken keys. That's why the weight comes off. Thats why all the symptoms fade away. That's why we feel amazing. Everything's on pause. But the locks are still jammed. The broken keys are still stuck inside. You just can't feel it because everything's paused. The second you stop? Your body starts making hormones again. Including the broken keys. Everything floods back into the same jammed locks. Hunger. Weight. Inflammation. All of it. Usually worse than before. Because you never actually cleared the jam. You just paused everything around it. $900 a month. For a pause button. Not a fix. So I asked in the thread. "Okay then what actually clears the jam?" She said selenium and iodine in a specific ratio. 2 to 1. To clear the broken keys and help your body make real ones. And this specific form of ashwagandha called KSM-66 to calm the stress response so your body stops producing more broken keys. All in liquid form because our guts are destroyed from hypothyroidism and pills don't absorb right. Now. Ashwagandha. I almost scrolled past when I saw that. Because I've seen posts saying it's bad for your thyroid. My doctor told me to avoid it. But apparently the random stuff on Amazon with unknown dosing? Yeah. That can mess with your thyroid. That's why doctors say avoid it. But KSM-66. Clinical grade. The exact dose that's actually been studied? That's different. That actually calms the stress response. Stops the panic signal. Stops the broken keys. Someone in the thread replied with a link. Said she'd been using this exact formula for 4 months. Was on Mounjaro for a year. Stopped. Crashed. Gained 40 lbs back. Found this. Tried stopping Mounjaro again. No crash. Down 15 lbs since and actually keeping it off. Another woman said she'd been off Wegovy for 6 months. Still no rebound. Someone else posted her labs. Reverse T3 went from through the roof to normal range. I kept scrolling and it was like... woman after woman saying the same thing. "I finally got off." "No crash." "I can't believe this actually worked." I looked at the formula. It was exactly what the doctor described. $27. I'd spent almost $10,000 on Ozempic in 11 months. What was $27. Ordered it that night. I didn't stop Ozempic right away. I'm not stupid. I'd crashed too hard before. Honestly I had anxiety about it. Every time I thought about not refilling I could feel my chest get tight. Because I KNEW what was coming. The hunger flooding back. The exhaustion. Watching the scale climb every single day. I'd lived it. I couldn't do it again. Took both for about 3 weeks. Then my Ozempic ran out and I just... didn't refill. Here's where it gets weird. Because nothing happened. Not what I expected anyway. Week 1 off GLP-1. Waiting for it to start. The hunger. The exhaustion. The scale creeping up. Nothing. Told myself it's too early. Give it time. The crash is coming. Week 2. This is usually when the weight starts coming back. That swollen inflamed feeling. But it... didn't? I kept stepping on the scale expecting the worst. Same weight. I literally thought the scale was broken. But that wasn't even the weird part. Week 3. Okay this is when I started freaking out a little. Not because something bad happened. Because nothing bad was happening. I woke up and I wasn't exhausted. Like actually wanted to get out of bed. I used to set 3 alarms. Snooze all of them. Drag myself up feeling like I hadn't slept at all. Now I was waking up before my alarm. That sounds small but if you know you know. Week 4. Down 2 lbs. I weighed myself 4 times. Last time I stopped Ozempic I was up 15 lbs by now. This time I was DOWN. Week 6. Down 5 lbs total. Still no crash. My husband asked if I went back on Ozempic. I said no. He literally didn't believe me. Week 8. Got bloodwork done. Made them run Reverse T3 even though my doctor looked at me like I was crazy. It came back normal. First time in years. I sat in my car in the parking lot and cried. Not cute crying. Ugly crying. Because it wasn't just the number. It was what it meant. All those years of doctors telling me to just try harder. Eat less. Move more. Stop making excuses. All those times I believed them. Believed it was my fault. It was never my fault. My locks were jammed the whole time. And nobody checked. And now it's week 12. Down 11 lbs since stopping. No Ozempic. No $900/month. No crash. Honestly I'm still waiting for it to fall apart. Every morning I step on the scale expecting to see it climbing again. Like my body's gonna remember it's supposed to be gaining and just... start. 12 weeks. Still hasn't happened. To my endocrinologist who told me I'd "probably need GLP-1 indefinitely" — you were wrong. To everyone who said "just accept it" — I get why you said that. I really do. But there was another way. I don't know if this works for everyone. I'm not a doctor. I'm just telling you what happened to me. If you're in that same trap right now... Paying $800, $900, $1000 a month. Terrified to stop because you know what happens. Feeling like maybe this is just your life now. Trust me. Its not. Here's the link if you want to try it. 👉 https://thyroid.love/products/cure-thyroid-support They have a 90 day guarantee so if it doesn't work you get your money back. That's honestly the only reason I tried it. I was so done wasting money on stuff that didn't work. Also heads up they sell out a lot. I had to wait 3 weeks for my second bottle. I'll update again at 6 months if people want. But yeah. 12 weeks off. No crash. Still can't really believe it.