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c/maintenancephase·submitted 2 years ago by u/hedda_ekstrom

24 months in and lowest effective dose is still the thing I get wrong

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking maintenance against eGFR for 3 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here. Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one…

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u/erez_baptista241 points·2 years ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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u/nabila_espinoza187 points·2 years ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/incretin_ivypharmacology56 points·2 years ago·edited

regain is not a moral failing

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/gradient_goblin50 points·2 years ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/viktor_erdogan64 points·2 years ago

the 0.5mg dose works fine for 45 weeks of the month

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u/constipation_clubside effects65 points·2 years ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/hedda_ekstromOP40 points·2 years ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/fabio_kuipers163 points·2 years ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/elise_ramos56 points·2 years ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 18 is not maintenance

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u/rohan_cardoso5 points·2 years ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/hedda_ekstromOP16 points·2 years ago

The plateau is real and boring. 10 weeks at the same weight, then movement again. Patience was the intervention.

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u/laila_almeida46 points·2 years ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 18 is not maintenance

Adding to this: goal weight is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/santiago_ndiaye47 points·2 years ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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