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c/maintenancephase·posted 10 months ago by u/laila_almeida

does regain actually matter or is it forum lore at this point

Meta Well Actually ×6

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, muscle cramps, 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 11 months. My hs-CRP 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/draw_up_dizzy80 points·10 months ago·edited
no
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u/noor_vermeulen38 points·10 months ago

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

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u/laila_almeidaOP20 points·10 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/laila_almeidaOP37 points·10 months ago

Maintenance for 7 months now. 2.4mg every 30 days, weight 11±7kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial50 points·10 months ago

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

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u/taper_off_tabithaMOD31 points·10 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/laila_almeidaOP31 points·10 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/blunt_coldbox_notes36 points·10 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/nils_tulloch9 points·10 months ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/hedda_aguirre31 points·10 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/aleksi_lehtinen22 points·10 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/kenji_vasquez17 points·10 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/karim_hartmann0 points·10 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/fatima_yildiz21 points·10 months ago

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

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u/kasper_cabrera6 points·10 months ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest 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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