ok so how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal
#maintenance 2025-09-02
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- ollie_orders — lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then… 22:37
- back_from_away — a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved, someone check my working 22:53
- back_from_away — i dropped from 10 to 2.4 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months 22:54
still at maintenance
set a trigger weight
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quick one everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
for the archive 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 STEP 1
*that should say weekly
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved, someone check my working
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i dropped from 10 to 2.4 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
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the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan, i have it written down somewhere
follow up how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
[edited]mine didnt hold
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i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
how much regain did people get in the first 23 months after stopping
same as a bp tablet
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it, thats just me
anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule