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c/tapering·submitted 23 days ago by u/aleksi_lehtinen

anyone else notice regain kicking in around week 20

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Check-in as promised in the title: anyone else notice regain kicking in around week 20. 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. Nothing on this board is a taper…

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u/elin_varga5 points·21 days ago

Yes — the withdrawal literature is consistent and it is a pharmacological finding, not a moral one.

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u/zeynep_zielinski3 points·21 days ago

Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?

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u/maintenance_mode_maxmaintenance2 points·20 days ago

Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?

This is the sentence that reframes the whole board. Appetite first, scale later.

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u/chidi_vermeulen2 points·20 days ago·edited

Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?

Adding the one process step — write down where you are before you change anything.

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u/camila_marchand2 points·20 days ago

stopping is a plan, not an event

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u/chidi_roos6 points·21 days ago

A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rather than a series of impressions.

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u/honest_syringe_20252 points·20 days ago

coming back later is allowed and it is common

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u/marta_marchand1 point·20 days ago

What are you planning to watch for, and over what period?

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics3 points·20 days ago

A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rath

chidi_roos is right that regain is a documented outcome rather than a character verdict.

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