[Results] 56 weeks on 2.4mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring
Check-in as promised in the title: 56 weeks on 2.4mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring.
The relevant figures are 56 weeks and 2.4mg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
Withdrawal studies across this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation, with appetite typically returning before weight changes. That is a description of the pharmacology of a chronic condition.
With a week-long half-life, exposure declines over several weeks after the last dose rather than stopping with it. The lag is why the first fortnight is uninformative.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
There is very little published guidance on stopping specifically, which is exactly why board consensus here should carry less weight than usual and a clinician conversation should carry more.
The habits are what carried it for a while. When they slipped, everything else followed, in that order.
Edited a comment framing regain as a moral failure. The documented outcome is not a character verdict.
Edited a comment framing regain as a moral failure.
Agreed — and the exposure lag means the first fortnight tells you almost nothing.
Has appetite changed yet, independent of the scale?
Do you have a written baseline from before you started changing anything?
Is this a pause or a stop? They are different plans.
Yes — have the conversation before rather than after. That is the one piece of process advice this board can give.
That reads as advice to stop, which is not something anyone here should be offering.
That reads as advice to stop, which is not something anyone here should be offering.
Disagreeing with this bit: stretching and reducing are different things and the post treats them as one.
What is prompting the decision — cost, supply, side effects, or something else?
How long were you at the dose you are coming off?
Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably easier that way round.
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