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c/maintenancephase·posted 9 months ago by u/neha_falk

the regain question that gets asked weekly, answered properly

Meta Well Actually ×9

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

Everything else people worry about in c/intlshipping is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, 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 7 months. My eGFR 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/honest_syringe51 points·9 months 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/anya_rautio25 points·9 months ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD34 points·9 months ago

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

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[deleted]24 points·9 months ago

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u/tomas_lokken6 points·9 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/neha_falkOP4 points·9 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 81 weeks to accept.

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u/camila_sandvik2 points·9 months ago·edited

regain is not a moral failing

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u/nils_tulloch40 points·9 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/neha_falkOP26 points·9 months ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/brigade_detector18 points·9 months ago

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

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u/neha_falkOP13 points·9 months ago

Maintenance for 22 months now. 0.25mg every 30 days, weight 5±22kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/elise_ramos21 points·9 months ago

the 1.0mg dose works fine for 79 weeks of the month

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u/anders_vermeulen17 points·9 months ago

the maintenance question changes at maintenance

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u/taper_off_tabitha13 points·9 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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u/kofi_ferreira4 points·9 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/brigade_detector1 point·9 months ago

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

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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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