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c/tapering·posted 5 months ago by u/neha_mwangi

week 76 check-in — 31kg down, muscle cramps manageable, one thing confusing me

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Week 23 update. 34kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 63.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with reflux.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD202 points·5 months ago

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

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u/source_or_silence281 points·5 months ago·edited

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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u/micro_bump_mick152 points·5 months ago

Removed a chain here.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 76 weeks to accept.

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u/yara_bakken98 points·5 months ago·edited

STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 discontinuation arms show regain

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u/neha_mwangiOP58 points·5 months ago

Which country? Half the answers in this thread only apply in Germany.

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u/meera_oyelaran99 points·5 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with regain, not with what you concluded.

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u/neha_mwangi31 points·5 months ago·edited

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/dizzy_on_standing24 points·5 months ago

the 24 week discontinuation arm is the data

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u/valeria_cardoso18 points·5 months ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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u/dario_stanescu27 points·5 months ago

regain on taper is expected, plan for it

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u/border_paperwork7 points·5 months ago

Strongly agree. The regain is expected.

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u/adaeze_weiss21 points·5 months ago·edited

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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u/zeynep_zielinski7 points·5 months ago

Yeah, regain is not a failure.

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u/salma_vasquez46 points·5 months ago

the people who came off and restarted without shame

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u/osman_eriksen16 points·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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u/hana_lehtinen28 points·5 months ago

Strongly agree. The regain is expected.

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