whats your rule for when a side effect means hold rather than push
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- dublin_dose — whats your rule for when a side effect means hold rather than push 17:12
- snac_and_water — do you count from injection day or from when you actually felt it the ladder in the trials is a starting point, not a schedule you owe anyone 17:57
- ten_of_ten — genuine question if it "stopped working after four days" that is almost never pharmacokinetics 18:10
- ten_of_ten — my titration ladder took 15 months to climb and i would do it slower again 20:28
end of week thing
go slower
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i went from 5 to 2.5 and honestly could not tell the difference in appetite
i jumped a rung once to catch up after a supply gap and it was a bad week. would not repeat
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
small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience
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the people who do best here are almost always the ones going slowest
do you count from injection day or from when you actually felt it
the ladder in the trials is a starting point, not a schedule you owe anyone
wk 1-4 2.5mg
wk 5-8 5.0mg
wk 9-20 7.5mg <- stayed here
wk 21-24 10.0mg (no extra benefit for me)
wk 25+ 7.5mg (came back down)nobody here can tell you what dose to be on and the ones who try get corrected
genuine question if it "stopped working after four days" that is almost never pharmacokinetics
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Assay note: SGN lot C-4402 reported at 99% of label content.
split dosing has no trial behind it. people here do it and report on it, thats all
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right so update from 7 months ago: held at the same dose the whole time and still losing slowly
steady state is 5 weeks
coming back to this plateau versus set point is not answerable in under six months of data
what does the room think about jumping a rung to catch up
how long did you hold at 5 before you moved up
holding is not failing. most people here who lasted two years held at least one dose for months, anyway
coming down from 2.4 to 15, how bad is the appetite rebound
hold
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stepping back down on purpose is a completely reasonable move and this channel should say so more often
you do not have to escalate at all. that is a real option that gets forgotten
sorry to jump in does a missed week reset anything or do you just carry on
held for months
dose day drift is mostly harmless with a weekly compound, but pick a day and defend it
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after a gap of more than about three weeks i restart one rung lower. thats my own rule, not advice
no trial for that
my titration ladder took 15 months to climb and i would do it slower again
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is it normal for appetite to come back at the end of the week
appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing
i hold for two months minimum before i decide a dose has stopped doing anything
slightly off topic but my dose day has drifted 8 days later over 16 months, does it matter
the ladder in the trials is a starting point, not a schedule you owe anyone
my rule: if a side effect is still there at day five, i hold. if it clears by day three, i step
if you are going up because the scale stalled for two weeks, wait. two weeks is noise
i escalate on symptoms. if the current dose is still doing something i stay on it
a missed week does not reset you, but going straight back to the top dose after a gap is how people get floored
two weeks is nothing
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the argument for splitting is a flatter curve. the argument against is you have doubled your injections for a guess, n of 1 obviously
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update on the earlier thing i drifted from sunday to wednesday over a year and only noticed when i checked the log, n of 1 obviously
too early imo