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c/tapering·posted 1 year ago by u/quiet_reader_99

[Question] Australia — has anyone got a straight answer on interval stretching

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 2.4mg, week 4, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — discontinuation — and tracked it for 19 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD642 points·1 year ago

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

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u/chain_confirm_cpayments530 points·1 year ago

My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.

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u/cormac_erdogan791 points·1 year ago·edited

Has anyone actually got this in writing, or is it forum lore at this point?

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u/elin_varga927 points·1 year ago

the people who came off and restarted without shame

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u/cormac_roos262 points·1 year ago

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

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u/priya_guerrero449 points·1 year ago·edited

interval stretching versus dose reduction

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u/careful_gradient256 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. The regain is expected.

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u/marta_dziedzic369 points·1 year ago

regain on taper is expected, plan for it

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u/quiet_reader_99OP0 points·1 year ago

Australia here. Waited 17 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.

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u/quiet_reader_99OP1 point·1 year ago

The fatigue 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/ferran_krastev1 point·1 year ago

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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u/lina_adebayo1 point·1 year ago

Strongly agree. The regain is expected.

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u/quiet_reader_99OP1 point·1 year ago

STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 discontinuation arms show regain

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u/cormac_erdogan279 points·1 year ago

appetite return timelines vary appetite return

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u/chidi_vermeulen87 points·1 year ago

Yeah, regain is not a failure.

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