dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly, take that with a pinch of salt
#maintenance 2025-11-02
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Highlights from this day
- lean_mass_lex — i came off for four months, put 31 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers 21:49
- two_lifts_a_week — everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here 22:02
- blank_run — cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower 22:20
- impersonator_ip — does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same $72 a month 22:52
thats STEP 4
regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says, n of 1 obviously
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there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
i came off for four months, put 31 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
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stopped 11 months ago and put 24 back on, what did people do at that point
mine didnt hold
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
slightly off topic but protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive, thats one data point
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
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i put 23 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round
two_lifts_a_weekregain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also…
there is no trial on every ten days or every fortnight. people here do it and report on it and that is all we have
did your maintenance dose end up higher or lower than you expected it to
slightly off topic but i went to every ten days at a low dose and it held for me. n of 1, and i keep saying that out loud
right so update from 14 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal, thats just me
same as a bp tablet
im holding at 12 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
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am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was
if you find maintenance harder than the losing part you are in the majority in this room
whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
i dropped from 2.5 to 7.5 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
regain is expected
lift twice a week
does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same $72 a month
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the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
ok so anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
protein up not down
two or three kilos up and down is normal fluctuation. ten is a different conversation
come down slower than that
went back up, no regrets, from memory
weekly not daily
harder than losing
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if i go back up after regain does it work the same the second time
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for