come down slower than that
#maintenance 2025-05-04
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Highlights from this day
- pharmac_pen — i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it 08:26
- void_volume — im holding at 5 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower 09:01
- group_buy_gwen — maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested, not advice obviously 09:32
- group_buy_gwen — SELECT is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion 09:33
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
no official dose
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
slightly off topic but i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me, i think
appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
stopped 13 months ago and put 11 back on, what did people do at that point
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
same as a bp tablet
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coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
harder than losing
im holding at 5 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
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is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
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lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
went back up, no regrets
there is no trial on every ten days or every fortnight. people here do it and report on it and that is all we have
thats fluctuation
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no data on that
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested, not advice obviously
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SELECT is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
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mine held
thats SURPASS-2
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here