do people tell their prescriber before they hold or only afterwards

four weeks per step is a convention, not a law of nature, and plenty of people sit longer, still at 1.7

holding is not failing. most people here who lasted two years held at least one dose for months, n of 1 and i will keep saying it

back from a break, my ladder went sideways

small thing about timing small steps are better than big ones and the only reason people take big ones is impatience, that was a slow climb