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switched from 7.5mg to 10mg and injection-site soreness got better, not worse

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switched from 7.5mg to 10mg and injection-site soreness got better, not worse. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Pulling the figures out of the title: 7.5mg and 10mg. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed. Been at maintenance for 16 months on 1.0mg.…

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u/priya_weiss59 points·2 years ago

Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.

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u/rafael_krastev25 points·2 years ago

Not convinced. Interval stretching changes your exposure profile, not just the total, and the two are not equivalent.

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u/cold_chromatogram_onlyOP4 points·2 years ago

What does your weigh-in frequency look like at this point?

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u/nhs_waitlist_nUK2 points·2 years ago

a few kilos of drift is not a relapse

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u/nadia_nascimento25 points·2 years ago

I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.

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u/enzo_danquah10 points·2 years ago

Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.

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u/ilias_nakamura30 points·2 years ago

regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure

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u/vitamin_d_void12 points·2 years ago

Yes — interval stretching and dose reduction are different levers and people use the words interchangeably.

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