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c/maintenancephase·submitted 2 years ago by u/hub_ops

why does nobody talk about lowest effective dose

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Quick one. Denmark here. long term works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US. Specifics: the route I used took 17 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the…

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u/vitamin_d_void122 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.

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u/nabila_espinoza32 points·2 years ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/hub_opsOPsite staff61 points·2 years ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/ewan_marchand50 points·2 years ago

What dose are you on?

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u/paloma_stanescu24 points·2 years ago

What dose are you on?

Adding to this: dose stretching is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/anders_osei0 points·2 years ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain40 points·2 years ago·edited

regain is not a moral failing

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u/fatima_asante28 points·2 years ago

regain is not a moral failing

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/vitamin_d_void41 points·2 years ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/hub_opsOPsite staff21 points·2 years ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 7.5mg worked for 6 weeks, then cravings returned. 12.5mg was the actual floor.

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