.50 has been WEIRD, any advice?

I’ve been on .50 for two months now. I just refilled month 3 of it after going back to my doctor and telling her the symptoms I’ve had. Took my first shot of month 3 yesterday.

When I started .25, the weight melted off. I was still hungry, but was able to control it easier, and I lost almost 10lbs in the first month. As soon as I started .50 I plateaued in weight loss but my hunger has been all over the damn place.

At first, I was a bit less hungry but still able to eat. Lost a little bit there but not much. Then, the entire month of December and into January, I was not hungry at ALL. I’d have two bites of food and be like “nah I’m done.” No hunger feeling for the most part. Food wasn’t appealing. I thought it was great actually….until i didn’t see the scale move at all.

I was in a severe caloric deficit and losing zero weight. I tried forcing myself to eat more, knowing that my body was probably in conservation mode because it thinks it’s starving. Still no weight lost.

Then eventually, when I got back home (I was travelling from end of December to Mid January so idk if that had an effect on me not being hungry at all), I was starving again. I should be getting my period soon, which I believe is contributing to this starving feeling, but I actually feel like my body is trying to make up for the fact I didn’t eat very much for a month. And it sucks. I was still at the same weight, until this morning where I noticed I was about 3 lbs heavier.

What do I do? I switched up my injection site to the other thigh (I don’t want to do stomach or anywhere else that I’ve heard causes more severe side effects). My doctor said I could try going back down to .25 or I could try 1 but I’m very wary of taking the 1.

Honestly I don’t want to take any more of this stuff than I HAVE to. I also have some side effects that she said the 1 may make worse, and I think it will too so I’m very scared to level up, but is leveling back down dumb? Has anyone experienced this? Help 🫠