small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience, i have it written down somewhere
#dosing-titration 2026-03-14
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Highlights from this day
- lipase_lore — small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience, i have it written down somewhere 13:18
- mg_per_ml — came down from a treatment dose to maintenance over about three months and it was uneventful 13:29
- point_two_five — you do not have to escalate at all. that is a real option that gets forgotten 14:41
- point_two_five — do you escalate on the calendar or on how you feel appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing 15:21
- steady_state_sue — the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial 16:02
slightly off topic but is week 19 too early to be thinking about the next step
held for months
is there a point where going up stops buying you anything
steady state is 5 weeks
pick a day and stick to it
came down from a treatment dose to maintenance over about three months and it was uneventful
[edited]| Trial schedule | What most people here do | |
|---|---|---|
| Step interval | 4 weeks, fixed | 4-12 weeks, on symptoms |
| Holding | protocol deviation | normal and expected |
| Top dose | reached by design | often never reached |
| Coming down | not studied | common at maintenance |
do you count from injection day or from when you actually felt it
you do not have to escalate at all. that is a real option that gets forgotten
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plateau versus set point is not answerable in under six months of data
update on the earlier thing my rule: if a side effect is still there at day five, i hold. if it clears by day three, i step
hold
i drifted from sunday to wednesday over a year and only noticed when i checked the log, anyway
do you escalate on the calendar or on how you feel
appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing
the honest answer is that most of us are running protocols nobody has ever studied, take that with a pinch of salt
appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing
the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial
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