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#dosing-titration 2024-04-13

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  • taper_tess — genuine question my dose day has drifted 9 days later over 22 months, does it matter 14:09
  • VialBot — Verification log updated: BCH — evidence added, status unchanged. 15:46
  • marrow.mod — a missed week does not reset you, but going straight back to the top dose after a gap is how people get floored 15:49
  • marrow.mod — anyone tracked whether a smaller more frequent dose changed their side effects 15:52
AP

appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing

TT

i went up too fast and im paying for it, do i drop back or ride it out

AP

do you count from injection day or from when you actually felt it

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AP

the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial

ok so small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience

TT

genuine question my dose day has drifted 9 days later over 22 months, does it matter

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i log dose, day, weight and one line about how the week felt. thats enough to make decisions on

MM

my rule: if a side effect is still there at day five, i hold. if it clears by day three, i step

MM

has anyone gone up and then straight back down and been glad they tried
split dosing has no trial behind it. people here do it and report on it, thats all

SO

i went from 10 to 5 and honestly could not tell the difference in appetite, not advice obviously

VB

Verification log updated: BCH — evidence added, status unchanged.

MM

a missed week does not reset you, but going straight back to the top dose after a gap is how people get floored

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came down from a treatment dose to maintenance over about three months and it was uneventful
the people who do best here are almost always the ones going slowest

anyone tracked whether a smaller more frequent dose changed their side effects

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AP

while im here if you are going up because the scale stalled for two weeks, wait. two weeks is noise

LN

the honest answer is that most of us are running protocols nobody has ever studied

nobody here can tell you what dose to be on and the ones who try get corrected

AP

i escalate on symptoms. if the current dose is still doing something i stay on it
the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial