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

am I the only one who found tapering harder than the injections

Question Clean Column ×4 The Quiet One ×3 Slow Clap ×2

I have had 5 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe.

Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 18 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February.

The independent number came back 99.0% against a claimed 99.1%, which I read as agreement rather than a discrepancy — inter-lab variance on this assay is a point or two either way and treating one lab as ground truth is how people end up in pointless arguments with vendors.

Batch number is in the comments. Ask if you want the method.

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u/maintenance_mode_maxmaintenance207 points·1 year ago
this is the third time this week and i love it every time
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u/anders_kuuselaOP299 points·1 year ago

Week 34 for me and the honest summary is: 5kg down, nausea manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/ferran_krastev173 points·1 year ago
oh thank god it is not just me
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u/viktor_kirchner39 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Discontinuation data is real.

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u/zeynep_villalobos15 points·1 year ago

Yeah, regain is not a failure.

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u/quarter_dose_queenlow and slow84 points·1 year ago

Yeah, regain is not a failure.

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u/maren_baptista24 points·1 year ago

Week 29 for me and the honest summary is: 25kg down, the food-noise thing manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/anders_kuuselaOP13 points·1 year ago

The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.

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u/andres_restrepo63 points·1 year ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/skip_week_sceptic40 points·1 year ago

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

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD22 points·1 year ago

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

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u/micro_bump_mick10 points·1 year ago

no shaming people who restart

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u/katrin_diallo11 points·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy.

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

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u/appeal_letter_al5 points·1 year ago

no shaming people who restart

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Stopping on purpose: dose reduction versus interval stretching, what the discontinuation arms of STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 actually showed about regain, appetite return timelines, and the people who came off, regained, and went back on without treating it as a failure.

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