lowest effective dose — 2 things I got wrong before I got it right
The title is the argument: lowest effective dose — 2 things I got wrong before I got it right. Here is the rest of it. Stretched from seven to ten days and then to twelve over about four months. Appetite told me where the limit was before the scale did. Been at maintenance for 17 months on 12.5mg. Nothing happens.…
Agreed. Lowest effective dose is the actual maintenance question and it gets almost no airtime next to the escalation threads.
Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.
Drifted up 17kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.
Stretching the interval, reducing the dose, or both?
boring is the objective now
do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase
Drifted up 17kg over a winter and panicked.
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
Wrote down what maintenance would look like at about week 62, before I needed it. Having decided in advance made the transition boring.