What a gentle-start or maintenance plan is for

The two situations

Some people want to begin carefully. Some people have reached where they wanted to be and want to stay there. Both are served by the lower-intensity plan, and the reason they share one is commercial rather than clinical: it is the same service.

What it is not

It is not a lighter version of a medication, a different dose we have decided on, or a way to pay less for the same thing. Dosing is the clinician's decision and it is not something a plan name determines.

We are not going to tell you which medication is more effective for you. That is a clinical judgement about your history, and anyone answering it on a marketing page is guessing or selling. What we can do is show you what each option costs and what the process is, so the conversation with a clinician starts from facts rather than from a price you have to reverse-engineer.

Moving between plans

You can change plan at the end of a paid period from your account. A change that would alter a prescription goes through the clinician rather than through a billing screen.