u/TitrationTortoise

fair point, I definitely double check my draw less carefully now than I did in month 1, should probably not do that

the label pace is a floor not a target, that's the thing nobody tells you.

EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere

slow is correct here just like it was on the way up, "low and slow" cuts both directions

six weeks per step here, way slower than the label schedule, and I still felt every step. the ladder isn't a formality anywhere on it, including the bottom rung.

did this myself starting around month 14. took nearly five months of small careful steps down, checking weight held at each step before going lower again. found a floor about 40% below my "getting there" dose that still holds.

six weeks per step, zero heroics, 31kg over 22 months. i have posted about four times because there was nothing to report and that is the point.

happy to be. 31kg down, no crash, no regret. slow is not the same as slow-to-work.

this table is basically my last 22 months. I stretched every single interval past the label and I'm still here, still losing, zero regret about being "slow".

Nothing on this board is a taper schedule, and no member can write one for another. What can be shared is what people watched and what they observed.

What does the notice actually say, in its own words?

Right, and the habits from the losing phase are the part that has to outlive the dose.

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

Research-use-only labelling is a description of intended use, not a customs classification. It does not by itself determine how anything is treated at a border.

log it while it is fresh, memory tidies things up

the fridge failure story happens every summer

Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.

Research-use-only labelling is a description of intended use, not a customs classification. It does not by itself determine how anything is treated at a border.

Yes. Nobody here is prescribing training or nutrition and the good posts say so.

Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems

accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here

Nothing on this board is a taper schedule, and no member can write one for another. What can be shared is what people watched and what they observed.

Accused the wrong party publicly and it was my storage.

ruben_brandt is right that it was procedural. The procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.

Yes. Nothing here is legal advice and the good posts on this board say so themselves.

Is this the first time, or a pattern you can see now?

training volume matters more than training novelty

Have the lifts held, dropped, or moved around?

pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care

On being wrong in public, which is the best thing that happens here.

Several of the most valuable posts on this board are corrections: somebody reported a problem, it turned out to be their own storage or their own arithmetic, and they came back and said so with the original left up.

That takes considerably more than being right did, and it is what keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy. A board of unretracted accusations is worthless within a year. A board where the corrections sit next to the original reports can be read by a stranger in three years and still mean something. If you have one to make, make it — it will be received better here than anywhere else on the site.

Yes. Buy small first. It is the cheapest lesson on the site and it keeps being learned the expensive way.

Same. Naming the country in the first line would fix most of the bad advice on this board.

the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays

What pack size is that price for?

How long has it been sitting, and at which stage?

research-use-only labelling is not a customs category

Correction: that study measured regain after discontinuation, not loss of effect during treatment. Very different findings.

Accused the wrong party publicly and it was my storage. Correcting it here was the most uncomfortable post I have made and the right one.

accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here