[Discussion] the long term advice in here is 3 years out of date
the long term advice in here is 3 years out of date. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
The relevant figures are 3 years, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.
Been at maintenance for 14 months on 2.5mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Retitled — this is maintenance, not a plateau, and the original framing was doing damage.
Retitled — this is maintenance, not a plateau, and the original framing was doing damage.
food_noise_gone is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.
Weigh monthly now. Best change I made in the whole run and it cost nothing.
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure
Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation. That is a pharmacological finding about a chronic condition, not a statement about anyone’s discipline.
That reads like a taper schedule and this board cannot hand those out.
Drifted up 17kg over a winter and panicked. It came back off without any change, which is apparently just what weight does.
Dose reduction and interval extension are different interventions. Halving the dose keeps the rhythm and lowers the level; stretching keeps the level and lowers the frequency, with a lower trough.
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