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c/maintenancephase·posted 5 months ago by u/osman_ferrari

maintenance — my 7-week log, condensed into one table

Results

long term. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/hplc is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort long term out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 24 months. My fasting insulin was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/kasper_cabrera10 points·5 months ago

Regain on a taper is expected. 15% back over 30 weeks, which matches the discontinuation data. Planned for it.

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u/priya_weiss7 points·5 months ago

the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works

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u/elise_ramos3 points·5 months ago

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

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u/vitamin_d_void6 points·5 months ago
four days. it took four days for me.
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[deleted]4 points·5 months ago

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u/rasmus_petrescu2 points·5 months ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/nils_tulloch-29 points·5 months ago
^ this
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u/osman_ferrariOP1 point·5 months ago

the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD1 point·5 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/sarcopenia_watch2 points·5 months ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/arne_ndiaye1 point·5 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/cold_chromatogram_only0 points·5 months ago

Not to be pedantic but maintenance and goal weight are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/aleksi_eriksen1 point·5 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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About c/maintenancephase

The part nobody posts about: what happens at goal weight. Finding a lowest effective dose, dose-interval stretching, regain risk data, muscle retention, the psychology of not having a number to chase, and staying on indefinitely versus tapering.

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