[Results] 9 weeks on 7.5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring
9 weeks on 7.5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring. Same spreadsheet I have been keeping since the start, nothing retrofitted.
To save the first four comments: 9 weeks and 7.5mg.
With a week-long half-life, exposure declines over several weeks after the last dose rather than stopping with it. The lag is why the first fortnight is uninformative.
Withdrawal studies across this class consistently show substantial regain after discontinuation, with appetite typically returning before weight changes. That is a description of the pharmacology of a chronic condition.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Appetite is the proximal effect and weight is the lagging integrated outcome, which is why watching appetite gives you an earlier and more honest signal.
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That is a pause rather than a stop, and the plans for the two are not the same.
Correcting myself upthread: appetite returned at week 12 for me, not the week I posted.
coming back later is allowed and it is common
Cosigning that cost and supply are legitimate reasons. Most of the stopping threads here are one of those two.
Wrote down where I was before changing anything. That single page made the following six months interpretable.
Nothing on this board is a taper schedule, and no member can write one for another. What can be shared is what people watched and what they observed.
Push back: that is a taper schedule aimed at another member and this board does not host those.
Agreed. Appetite is the leading indicator and the scale is the lagging one. Watch the first, not the second.
Right, and the habits from the losing phase are the part that has to outlive the dose.
Disagree with the framing. Regain is the documented outcome after discontinuation; calling it a personal failure is both wrong and corrosive.
Not convinced. Two weeks of stable weight is not evidence of anything yet.
This. Decide in advance what you are watching for. Deciding in the middle of it is much harder.
That reads as advice to stop, which is not something anyone here should be offering.
Went back on after eight months away. Nobody here made me feel bad about it, which mattered more than I expected.
How long were you at the dose you are coming off?
How long were you at the dose you are coming off?
Disagreeing with this bit: stretching and reducing are different things and the post treats them as one.
Went back on after eight months away.
taper_off_tabitha is right that regain is a documented outcome rather than a character verdict.
Careful — interval stretching and dose reduction are different interventions and your post uses them interchangeably.
cost and supply are the two most common reasons and both are legitimate
the habits are what has to carry it afterwards
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.
stretching to ten days then twelve is the pattern people report
interval stretching is the most commonly described approach here
Yes — have the conversation before rather than after. That is the one piece of process advice this board can give.
There is very little published guidance on stopping specifically, which is exactly why board consensus here should carry less weight than usual and a clinician conversation should carry more.
Correction: that study measured regain after discontinuation, not loss of effect during treatment. Very different findings.
Have you had the conversation with a clinician yet?
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