tried discontinuation for 13 weeks. here is what happened.
tried discontinuation for 13 weeks. here is what happened. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here. The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 13 weeks. Everything below is context for those. Regained most of it over a year and spent that year assuming it was…
Stopped abruptly once and gradually once. The gradual one was easier to interpret because I could see what was changing.
Same. A quiet fortnight after stopping tells you very little; the interesting part starts later.
Disagree with the framing. Regain is the documented outcome after discontinuation; calling it a personal failure is both wrong and corrosive.
What is prompting the decision — cost, supply, side effects, or something else?
A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rather than a series of impressions.
the withdrawal data is unambiguous and it is not about willpower