small win: maintenance stopped being a problem at week 92
Update, and the title has the headline: small win: maintenance stopped being a problem at week 92.
Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lowers average exposure. That is why appetite return is often the first thing noticed.
On stopping, since it is the question underneath most posts here.
Withdrawal studies in this class show substantial regain after discontinuation, consistently, across compounds. Appetite returns first, typically well before the scale moves. That is a statement about the pharmacology of a chronic condition, not about anybody’s character, and the framing matters because people quit in shame over an entirely predictable result.
If you are going to stop — for cost, for supply, for any reason — the useful preparation is deciding in advance what you will watch for and what your plan is when appetite comes back. Doing that in advance is much easier than doing it in a panic, and it is a conversation to have with someone who knows your history.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.
Removed the taper schedule aimed at another member. Describe your own; do not write theirs.
Correction: that trial measured regain after withdrawal, not failure of the drug during treatment. Very different claim.
stretching the interval is not the same as reducing the dose
Yes. The habits have to outlive the dose or the maintenance phase is just a countdown.
Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions. Halving the dose keeps the rhythm and lowers the level; stretching keeps the level and lowers the frequency, with a lower trough.
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 84, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.
seven days to ten to twelve is the sequence people here describe
Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.
Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. That is a pharmacological finding about a chronic condition, not a statement about anyone’s discipline.
do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase
That is a range, not a trend. Two weigh-ins 16 days apart cannot distinguish them.
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