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c/maintenancephase·posted 1 months ago by u/britt_abubakar

[Regain] appetite came back over about five weeks, not overnight

Regain Receipts ×8

Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/viktor_erdogan128 points·1 months ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/old_account_202372 points·1 months ago

lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher

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u/nnt_nate34 points·1 months ago

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

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u/ferritin_low17 points·1 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/nabila_espinoza84 points·1 months ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 10mg worked for 8 weeks, then cravings returned. 7.5mg was the actual floor.

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u/nadia_trevino-1 point·1 months ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach.

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

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[removed]1 point·1 months ago

[removed by moderator]

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u/yara_antonsen1 point·1 months ago·edited

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/hedda_aguirre58 points·1 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/food_noise_goneMOD23 points·1 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/piotr_grimaldi13 points·1 months ago

dose-stretching experiences welcome, dose-stretching instructions are not

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain46 points·1 months ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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