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c/maintenancephase·posted 2 months ago by u/anders_osei

three years of dose stretching threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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three years of dose stretching threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.

Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering.

The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That is not inspirational, it is just what happened.

Drifted up 17kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.

Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.

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u/laila_almeida1 point·2 months ago

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.

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u/incretin_ivypharmacology1 point·2 months ago·edited

Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lo

This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.

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u/transit_variance-2 points·2 months ago

Stretching the interval, reducing the dose, or both?

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u/andres_dahlberg1 point·2 months ago

Stretching the interval, reducing the dose, or both?

transit_variance is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.

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u/gradient_goblin0 points·2 months ago

Has appetite changed, or only the scale?

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u/sofia_wikstrom1 point·2 months ago

a few kilos of drift is not a relapse

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u/throwaway_91821 point·2 months ago

This. The withdrawal data is not ambiguous and framing regain as a personal failure is both wrong and cruel.

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u/piotr_grimaldi1 point·2 months ago

Careful — a dose reduction plan is a conversation with someone who knows your history, not a board consensus.

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