is it normal for appetite to come back at the end of the week
#dosing-titration 2026-04-07
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- oli_orals — if i took it 4 days late do i shift the schedule or go back to the old day 13:09
- oli_orals — my rule: if a side effect is still there at day five, i hold. if it clears by day three, i step 13:13
- sol_sends — the honest answer is that most of us are running protocols nobody has ever studied 14:12
- per_mg_pete — the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial 15:48
- noct.titrate — plateau versus set point is not answerable in under six months of data, ymmv dose day drift is mostly harmless with a weekly compound, but pick a day and defend it 21:38
came down from a treatment dose to maintenance over about three months and it was uneventful
my dose day has drifted 9 days later over 24 months, does it matter
how do you tell a plateau from just being at your set point
no trial for that
came down, no regrets
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does a missed week reset anything or do you just carry on
the ladder in the trials is a starting point, not a schedule you owe anyone
[edited]ok so is there a point where going up stops buying you anything
while im here how much does the last dose still matter 5 days later
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right so update from 8 months ago: held at the same dose the whole time and still losing slowly, ymmv
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pick a day and stick to it
if the current dose is still working, going up is spending headroom you might want later
if it "stopped working after four days" that is almost never pharmacokinetics
i jumped a rung once to catch up after a supply gap and it was a bad week. would not repeat
is there a trial anywhere that studied twice weekly, or is it all anecdote
the argument for splitting is a flatter curve. the argument against is you have doubled your injections for a guess
whats a sensible maintenance dose after a year at treatment dose
with a roughly seven day half-life you are near steady state after about five weeks at a dose
thats anecdote
my titration ladder took 10 months to climb and i would do it slower again
if i took it 4 days late do i shift the schedule or go back to the old day
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my rule: if a side effect is still there at day five, i hold. if it clears by day three, i step
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you do not have to escalate at all. that is a real option that gets forgotten
thats noise
hold
i would hold
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go slower
i hold for two months minimum before i decide a dose has stopped doing anything
if you are asking whether to go up, the fact you are asking usually means not yet
the honest answer is that most of us are running protocols nobody has ever studied
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quick one 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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nobody here can tell you what dose to be on and the ones who try get corrected, n of 1 obviously
anyone tracked whether a smaller more frequent dose changed their side effects
update on the earlier thing dose day drift is mostly harmless with a weekly compound, but pick a day and defend it
i drifted from sunday to wednesday over a year and only noticed when i checked the log, anyway
slightly off topic but whats your rule for when a side effect means hold rather than push
holding is not failing. most people here who lasted two years held at least one dose for months
has anyone gone up and then straight back down and been glad they tried
if the current dose is still working, going up is spending headroom you might want later
if you are going up because the scale stalled for two weeks, wait. two weeks is noise
while im here update question: did anyone who held for 21 months regret it
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two weeks is nothing
[edited]genuine question split dosing has no trial behind it. people here do it and report on it, thats all
i escalate on symptoms. if the current dose is still doing something i stay on it
sorry to jump in stepping back down on purpose is a completely reasonable move and this channel should say so more often
the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial
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appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing
i have been at 5 for 12 months and honestly i have stopped wanting to move
the people who do best here are almost always the ones going slowest
after a gap of more than about three weeks i restart one rung lower. thats my own rule, not advice
i log dose, day, weight and one line about how the week felt. thats enough to make decisions on
ok so i went to the top of the ladder, felt no better than two rungs down, and came back. that is data for me and nobody else
if i hold at 0.5 indefinitely am i losing anything
half life is a week, your mileage will differ
do you escalate on the calendar or on how you feel
nobody here can tell you what dose to be on and the ones who try get corrected
coming down from 2 to 10, how bad is the appetite rebound
i went up too fast and im paying for it, do i drop back or ride it out
plateau versus set point is not answerable in under six months of data, ymmv
dose day drift is mostly harmless with a weekly compound, but pick a day and defend it
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