update from 7 months ago: held at the same dose the whole time and still losing slowly
#dosing-titration 2025-03-20
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Highlights from this day
- taper_or_not — small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience 16:26
- mag_citrate — is there any actual reason to escalate every 4 weeks other than the trial did it 18:29
- verify_or_dont — holding is not failing. most people here who lasted two years held at least one dose for months 20:35
held for months
the ladder in the trials is a starting point, not a schedule you owe anyone
if you are asking whether to go up, the fact you are asking usually means not yet
quick one i went up too fast and im paying for it, do i drop back or ride it out
while im here appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing
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is it normal for appetite to come back at the end of the week
while im here a missed week does not reset you, but going straight back to the top dose after a gap is how people get floored
small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience
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came down from a treatment dose to maintenance over about three months and it was uneventful, not advice obviously
whats the longest anyone has stayed on one dose
update on the earlier thing you do not have to escalate at all. that is a real option that gets forgotten
ok so nobody here can tell you what dose to be on and the ones who try get corrected
update question: did anyone who held for 23 months regret it
the honest answer is that most of us are running protocols nobody has ever studied
split dosing has no trial behind it. people here do it and report on it, thats all, someone check my working
is week 7 too early to be thinking about the next step
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coming back to this the argument for splitting is a flatter curve. the argument against is you have doubled your injections for a guess
no trial for that
quick one i have been at 12 for 12 months and honestly i have stopped wanting to move
[edited]i drifted from sunday to wednesday over a year and only noticed when i checked the log
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do you escalate on the calendar or on how you feel
*PeptideMeter not the other one
too early imo
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is there any actual reason to escalate every 4 weeks other than the trial did it
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i hold for two months minimum before i decide a dose has stopped doing anything, anyway
i would hold
wk 1-4 2.5mg
wk 5-8 5.0mg
wk 9-20 7.5mg <- stayed here
wk 21-24 10.0mg (no extra benefit for me)
wk 25+ 7.5mg (came back down)the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial
if i took it 8 days late do i shift the schedule or go back to the old day
i log dose, day, weight and one line about how the week felt. thats enough to make decisions on
what does the room think about jumping a rung to catch up
i hold for two months minimum before i decide a dose has stopped doing anything
came down, no regrets
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do you tell your prescriber you held or do you just hold
holding is not failing. most people here who lasted two years held at least one dose for months
wk 1-4 2.5mg
wk 5-8 5.0mg
wk 9-20 7.5mg <- stayed here
wk 21-24 10.0mg (no extra benefit for me)
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has anyone gone up and then straight back down and been glad they tried
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