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c/maintenancephase·submitted 9 months ago by u/fabio_kuipers

three years of regain threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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three years of regain threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lowers average exposure.…

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u/graph_it_gary178 points·9 months ago

Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of injection-site soreness and no change in the number.

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u/incretin_ivypharmacology148 points·9 months ago

do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase

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u/fabio_kuipersOP107 points·9 months ago

do not chase the last two kilos with a dose increase

This reframing is the most useful thing on the board for anyone approaching this phase.

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u/yara_antonsen28 points·9 months ago

regain after stopping is the expected outcome, not a personal failure

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u/fabio_kuipersOP46 points·9 months ago·edited

What is the plan if the drift continues for another month?

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u/arne_ndiaye82 points·9 months ago

Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a dose reduction. The exposure profiles differ.

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u/adnan_sandvik54 points·9 months ago

appetite returns before the scale acknowledges anything

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