holding is not failing. most people here who lasted two years held at least one dose for months
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#dosing-titration 2026-06-26
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- reta_resting_hr — with a roughly seven day half-life you are near steady state after about five weeks at a dose 19:03
- nausea_window — slightly off topic but small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience 20:03
- batch_bandit — whats the smallest step anyone has managed between doses 20:23
- batch_bandit — does a missed week reset anything or do you just carry on 21:48
how much does the last dose still matter 5 days later
for the archive update question: did anyone who held for 5 months regret it
my rule: if a side effect is still there at day five, i hold. if it clears by day three, i step
hold
whats the longest anyone has stayed on one dose
do you tell your prescriber you held or do you just hold
i would hold
is week 31 too early to be thinking about the next step
has anyone gone up and then straight back down and been glad they tried
is there a point where going up stops buying you anything
split dosing has no trial behind it. people here do it and report on it, thats all
stepping back down on purpose is a completely reasonable move and this channel should say so more often
came down from a treatment dose to maintenance over about three months and it was uneventful
with a roughly seven day half-life you are near steady state after about five weeks at a dose
is there a trial anywhere that studied twice weekly, or is it all anecdote
if you are asking whether to go up, the fact you are asking usually means not yet
half life is a week
sorry to jump in whats your rule for when a side effect means hold rather than push
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with a roughly seven day half-life you are near steady state after about five weeks at a dose
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if the current dose is still working, going up is spending headroom you might want later
my titration ladder took 7 months to climb and i would do it slower again
came down, no regrets
if it "stopped working after four days" that is almost never pharmacokinetics
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quick one i went from 15 to 1.7 and honestly could not tell the difference in appetite
plateau versus set point is not answerable in under six months of data
after a gap of more than about three weeks i restart one rung lower. thats my own rule, not advice
unrelated but the people who do best here are almost always the ones going slowest
the honest answer is that most of us are running protocols nobody has ever studied
i drifted from sunday to wednesday over a year and only noticed when i checked the log
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a missed week does not reset you, but going straight back to the top dose after a gap is how people get floored, n of 1 obviously
i went up too fast and im paying for it, do i drop back or ride it out
pick a day and stick to it
i log dose, day, weight and one line about how the week felt. thats enough to make decisions on, ymmv
slightly off topic but small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience
for the archive the trials escalated on a fixed schedule because a trial has to. you are not a trial
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nobody here can tell you what dose to be on and the ones who try get corrected
two weeks is nothing
whats the smallest step anyone has managed between doses
| 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 |
sorry to jump in i hold for two months minimum before i decide a dose has stopped doing anything
whats a sensible maintenance dose after a year at treatment dose
for the archive you do not have to escalate at all. that is a real option that gets forgotten, happy to be corrected
the argument for splitting is a flatter curve. the argument against is you have doubled your injections for a guess
end of week thing, i could be wrong
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no trial for that
update from 13 months ago: held at the same dose the whole time and still losing slowly
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n of 1
thats normal
update on the earlier thing my dose day has drifted 5 days later over 4 months, does it matter
what does the room think about jumping a rung to catch up
appetite returning at the end of the week is extremely common and is not the dose failing
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how do you decide between holding and stepping when both feel wrong
if you are going up because the scale stalled for two weeks, wait. two weeks is noise
does a missed week reset anything or do you just carry on
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i went to the top of the ladder, felt no better than two rungs down, and came back. that is data for me and nobody else
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*VendorInvestigate not the other one
slightly off topic but i jumped a rung once to catch up after a supply gap and it was a bad week. would not repeat, for what its worth
how do you tell a plateau from just being at your set point
go slower