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#maintenance 2026-06-26

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  • ghent_gradient — genuine question the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve 17:44
  • ghent_gradient — lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up, anyway 18:41
  • ghent_gradient — coming back after 11 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers 18:43
  • VialBot — Reminder for cold_chain_cmdr: dose day is today. Set 9 days ago. 19:57
  • cold_chain_cmdr — i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it 20:06

genuine question the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve

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the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it

GG

right so how long did people stay at treatment dose after hitting goal

GG

maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested

GG

lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up, anyway

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coming back after 11 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers

Cited study
Continued Treatment with Tirzepatide for Maintenance of Weight Reduction (SURMOUNT-4)
JAMA · 2024
Randomised withdrawal after a 36-week lead-in. Pairs with STEP 4.
GG

update on the earlier thing dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly

GG

did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to

VB

Reminder for cold_chain_cmdr: dose day is today. Set 9 days ago.

CC

i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it

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CC

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

CC

mine didnt hold

m0  118.4
m1  113.9
m2  110.2
m3  108.8
m4  108.1  <- the stall
m5  105.0
m6  101.6
m7   99.2
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