u/brigade_detector

That reads as a warning about a documented supplier and the events you describe are about a shop nobody has any record of.

The analytical point, which this board keeps getting wrong by importing habits from the peptide side.

For a peptide, purity is typically reported as area percent by HPLC with identity by mass spectrometry, and the impurity classes are things like deletion and oxidation products. For a small molecule the relevant impurities are synthetic intermediates, degradants and residual solvents, and identity is established differently.

So the certificate you would want looks different, the questions to ask are different, and a "purity" figure quoted here is not comparable to one quoted on the peptide boards. Anybody posting a result should say what method produced it, which is good practice everywhere and essential here.

a non-peptide agonist does not degrade the way a peptide does

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

Been at maintenance for 18 months on 7.5mg. Nothing happens. That is the whole report and it took me a while to accept it as success.

Drifted up 17kg over a winter and panicked.

Disagreeing with this bit: a two-kilo range is not drift and treating it as a problem creates one.

Right, and asking what the stability statement was written against is one line of email that reframes everything.

muscle cramps on day two and gone by day four is the standard shape

This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.

if it is severe or persistent that is a clinician question, not a board question

Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.

Tolerance to the gastric effect develops with continued exposure while the appetite effect largely persists. That single fact explains most of the "it settles but it still works" pattern the side-effect board reports.

regional stock removes most of this problem entirely

maintenance is a phase, not a finish line

Correction: that stability figure covers the lyophilised powder, not the reconstituted solution. Different claim entirely.

fibre and water before you buy anything to fix it