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#maintenance 2026-04-01
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- fasting_insulin — regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says 18:21
- apob_over_ldl — stopped 16 months ago and put 13 back on, what did people do at that point 18:56
- nhs_pathway_nell — everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here 20:35
- see_a_clinician — my range is 16 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain 20:58
mine held
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
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regain after stopping is the expected outcome, which is a horrible sentence and also what the data says
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anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
same as a bp tablet
SURPASS-2 is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the actual numbers
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up, thats just me
thats FLOW
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
right so protein went up during maintenance for me rather than down, which was completely counterintuitive
stopped 16 months ago and put 13 back on, what did people do at that point
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snac_and_waterSURPASS-2 is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the…
did anyone drop the dose for maintenance or just stay where they were
the food noise came back at the lower dose, does it settle again
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for the archive whats your rule for when a fluctuation becomes a regain
how much regain did people get in the first 13 months after stopping
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holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
still at maintenance
i dropped from 1 to 7.5 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
[edited]lift twice a week
genuine question anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule
set a trigger weight
the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
follow up i lift twice a week specifically because losing fast without it cost me more than i was willing to lose
protein up not down
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
coming back after 5 months of maintenance, is anyone interested in the numbers
did anyone regret dropping the dose too fast
nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
how quickly did appetite come back going from 1.7 to 0.5
harder than losing
is a maintenance dose a real clinical thing or something we invented between us
dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here
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i set a trigger weight instead of a target. if i cross it i go up a rung. that is my entire plan
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
i put 41 back on after stopping and then went back on it. it worked the same the second time round, from memory
my range is 16 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
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a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
i came off for four months, put 56 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
come down slower than that
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im at goal and nobody has told me what happens next, whats the room doing
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