went back up, no regrets
#maintenance 2026-06-16
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Highlights from this day
- area_percent — the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel 19:06
- spreadsheet_stu — i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me 19:13
- sedge_sources — the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve 23:35
protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
mine didnt hold
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
*week 21 not week 4
my range is 13 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
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the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
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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
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SURMOUNT-OSA is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the actual numbers
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how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
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lift twice a week
how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
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i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
regain is expected
[edited]food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
still at maintenance
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
i put 13 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 21
genuine question a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
thats SELECT
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i dropped from 1.7 to 0.25 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
no data on that
[edited]whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
*Janoshik not the other one
i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
while im here 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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im holding at 1.7 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
weekly not daily
does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same £240 a month
no official dose
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
how much regain did people get in the first 4 months after stopping
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested, for what its worth
slightly off topic but appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for, i think
coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
update from 16 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
come down slower than that
genuine question appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
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anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule
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the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
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