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small win: dose stretching stopped being a problem at week 55

Regain Receipts ×9 Sourced ×1 Well Actually ×1

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 0.25mg to 10mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 3 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 41 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/lina_novak-37 points·2 years ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/kasper_cabrera423 points·2 years ago

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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u/milos_vestergaardOP278 points·2 years ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/nils_tulloch291 points·2 years ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is dose stretching. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/ilias_nakamura81 points·2 years ago

the maintenance question changes at maintenance

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u/milos_vestergaardOP50 points·2 years ago

the maintenance question changes at maintenance

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

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u/vitamin_d_void260 points·2 years ago

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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