anyone else notice regain kicking in around week 20
Check-in as promised in the title: anyone else notice regain kicking in around week 20.
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.
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.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
stretching to ten days then twelve is the pattern people report
Push back: that is a taper schedule aimed at another member and this board does not host those.
a fortnight of nothing is not evidence that you are fine
Regained most of it over a year and spent that year assuming it was my fault. It was not; it is what the literature describes.
nobody here can write you a taper schedule
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stopping abruptly and stopping gradually are different experiences
Stopped for cost reasons. Appetite came back at about week 20, well before the scale moved, exactly as this board said it would.
regain is the expected outcome and framing it as failure helps nobody
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.
With a week-long half-life, exposure declines over several weeks after the last dose rather than stopping with it.
Agreed — and the exposure lag means the first fortnight tells you almost nothing.
the habits are what has to carry it afterwards
the withdrawal data is unambiguous and it is not about willpower
Yes — the withdrawal literature is consistent and it is a pharmacological finding, not a moral one.
Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?
Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?
This is the sentence that reframes the whole board. Appetite first, scale later.
Stretching the interval or reducing the dose?
Adding the one process step — write down where you are before you change anything.
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.
coming back later is allowed and it is common
What are you planning to watch for, and over what period?
A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rath
chidi_roos is right that regain is a documented outcome rather than a character verdict.
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