u/maren_baptista

Regained most of it over a year and spent that year assuming it was my fault. It was not; it is what the literature describes.

This. Decide in advance what you are watching for. Deciding in the middle of it is much harder.

Yes — a proposal with concrete wording gets discussed. A complaint about the rules in general does not.

Stopped abruptly once and gradually once. The gradual one was easier to interpret because I could see what was changing.

sort by controversial occasionally, it is worth it

interval stretching is the most commonly described approach here

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.

Push back: that is a taper schedule aimed at another member and this board does not host those.

the disclosure is boring because it has to be

Correcting myself upthread: appetite returned at week 11 for me, not the week I posted.

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.

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.

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watch appetite, not the scale, for the first month

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There is very little published guidance on stopping specifically, which is exactly why board consensus here should carry less weight than usual and a

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

Stretched from seven days to ten to twelve over four months. Appetite told me where the limit was each time.

Agreed that returning later is common and it is treated here as ordinary rather than as a defeat.

Agreed. Appetite is the leading indicator and the scale is the lagging one. Watch the first, not the second.

the habits are what has to carry it afterwards

I would not treat appetite returning as a sign of doing it wrong. It is the expected sequence.

modmail first, always, and the thread second

Agreed — concrete wording or it is not a proposal.

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

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