regain is expected
#maintenance 2026-04-05
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- lower_frequency — there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken… 20:27
- ferrous_ash — the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it 21:30
- ten_of_ten — if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room 21:54
STEP 4 is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
no data on that
come down slower than that
weekly not daily
there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
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appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
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*Medutest not the other one
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved, i have it written down somewhere
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
how much regain did people get in the first 21 months after stopping
mine held
is maintenance different between cagrilintide and the others or is that all anecdote
i went to every ten days at a low dose and it held for me. n of 1, and i keep saying that out loud, for what its worth
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does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same £120 a month
is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 19
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
right so i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
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still at maintenance
SURMOUNT-1 is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the actual numbers
whats a realistic amount of regain to accept rather than panic about
same as a bp tablet
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
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thats fluctuation
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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
did anyone regret dropping the dose too fast
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
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resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
thats STEP 4
mine didnt hold
quick one i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan
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stopped 23 months ago and put 38 back on, what did people do at that point
protein up not down
follow up i came off for four months, put 47 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
went back up, no regrets
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
i put 35 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
my range is 25 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
no official dose