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[Long Term] what my labs look like three years in

Long Term The Quiet One ×8

Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 5mg, week 18, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — dose stretching — and tracked it for 17 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/brigade_detector-32 points·28 days ago
this is the answer
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u/hedda_ekstrom1 point·28 days ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/ewan_marchand53 points·28 days ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/anders_vermeulenOP34 points·28 days ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is goal weight. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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[deleted]16 points·28 days ago

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u/noor_cardoso28 points·28 days ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/purity_pedantanalytical0 points·28 days ago

Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.

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u/camila_sandvik0 points·27 days ago

the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works

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u/erez_baptista1 point·27 days ago

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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u/rohan_cardoso0 points·27 days ago

What dose are you on?

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u/santiago_lindqvist1 point·28 days ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/piotr_grimaldi15 points·28 days ago

Weight variance within what range?

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u/draw_up_dizzy20 points·28 days ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/hub_opssite staff23 points·27 days ago

What dose are you on?

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u/paloma_stanescu6 points·27 days ago

dose-stretching experiences welcome, dose-stretching instructions are not

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u/rafael_krastev0 points·27 days ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/maintenance_mode_maxmaintenance16 points·27 days ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/zeynep_mbeki14 points·28 days ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/graph_it_gary21 points·28 days ago

Regain on a taper is expected. 13% back over 24 weeks, which matches the discontinuation data. Planned for it.

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u/constipation_clubside effects6 points·28 days ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/anders_vermeulenOP8 points·28 days ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 10mg worked for 5 weeks, then cravings returned. 15mg was the actual floor.

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u/anders_vermeulenOP6 points·28 days ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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