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c/tapering·submitted 27 days ago by u/preservative_free_p

the appetite return question that gets asked weekly, answered properly

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 0.25mg, week 54, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — discontinuation — and tracked it for 14 weeks. Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted…

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u/fabio_lehtinen120 points·27 days ago

Yeah, regain is not a failure.

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u/preservative_free_pOP57 points·26 days ago

The injection-site soreness was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxmaintenance14 points·26 days ago

cite the discontinuation data rather than guessing regain rates

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u/nayeli_fonseca19 points·26 days ago

say how long you were on and at what dose before taper

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u/hana_lehtinen4 points·26 days ago

interval stretching versus dose reduction

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u/preservative_free_pOP142 points·27 days ago

This is correct. Discontinuation data is real.

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