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c/maintenancephase·submitted 2 months ago by u/anders_osei

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

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three years of dose stretching threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Two years at maintenance. The logistics are the only remaining work — ordering, storing, remembering. The habits from the losing phase are what carry it now. That…

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u/laila_almeida1 point·2 months ago

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. That is why appetite return is often the first thing noticed.

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u/incretin_ivypharmacology1 point·2 months ago·edited

Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lo

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

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u/transit_variance-2 points·2 months ago

Stretching the interval, reducing the dose, or both?

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u/andres_dahlberg1 point·2 months ago

Stretching the interval, reducing the dose, or both?

transit_variance is right that stretching and reducing are different levers. Worth separating in every one of these threads.

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u/gradient_goblin0 points·2 months ago

Has appetite changed, or only the scale?

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u/sofia_wikstrom1 point·2 months ago

a few kilos of drift is not a relapse

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