switched from 7.5mg to 10mg and injection-site soreness got better, not worse
switched from 7.5mg to 10mg and injection-site soreness got better, not worse. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
Pulling the figures out of the title: 7.5mg and 10mg. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed.
Been at maintenance for 16 months on 1.0mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.
Appetite returning before the scale moves follows from the mechanism: the appetite effect is the proximal one and weight is the lagging integrated outcome.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Body weight varies by a couple of kilos over days in stable people through fluid, glycogen and gut content. A range is not a trend.
find the dose that holds, then stop optimising
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.
appetite returns before the scale acknowledges anything
What is the plan if the drift continues for another month?
What is the plan if the drift continues for another month?
Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.
the trials that looked at withdrawal are unambiguous about what follows
Withdrawal studies in this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation.
Adding one thing — decide what maintenance looks like before you arrive at it.
Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.
Not convinced. Interval stretching changes your exposure profile, not just the total, and the two are not equivalent.
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What does your weigh-in frequency look like at this point?
a few kilos of drift is not a relapse
I would not treat a two-kilo range as drift requiring action. That is ordinary weight variation.
Same. Monthly is plenty at this stage and daily weighing made me miserable for no information gain.
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure
Yes — interval stretching and dose reduction are different levers and people use the words interchangeably.
That reads like a taper schedule and this board cannot hand those out.
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