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c/tapering·posted 11 months ago by u/source_or_silence

genuine question about tapering that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

Question The Quiet One ×6

Quick one. Canada here.

regain works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 4 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa68 points·11 months ago

coming off deliberately, not by accident

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u/arne_restrepo28 points·11 months ago

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

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u/valeria_girard-32 points·11 months ago

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

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u/source_or_silenceOP1 point·11 months ago

Came off after 36 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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u/marta_dziedzic1 point·11 months ago

Yeah, regain is not a failure.

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[deleted]1 point·11 months ago

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u/chidi_vermeulen55 points·11 months ago·edited

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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u/controversial_only52 points·11 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxmaintenance13 points·11 months ago

cite the discontinuation data rather than guessing regain rates

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u/dario_stanescu10 points·11 months ago

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

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u/marta_weiss2 points·11 months ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/farid_kuipers3 points·11 months ago

Not to be pedantic but tapering and appetite return are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/taper_off_tabithaMOD38 points·11 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/vikram_ferreira45 points·11 months ago

This is correct. Discontinuation data is real.

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u/zeynep_zielinski22 points·11 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/rekha_teixeira6 points·11 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/ines_boateng33 points·11 months ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/priya_weiss21 points·11 months ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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u/jarno_adebayo16 points·11 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/lina_adebayo9 points·11 months ago

New Zealand here. Waited 23 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.

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u/nayeli_fonseca6 points·11 months ago

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

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u/andres_restrepo4 points·11 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/ilias_nakamura1 point·11 months ago

no shaming people who restart

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