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c/maintenancephase·submitted 19 days ago by u/purity_pedant

[Discussion] we have no vocabulary for success that is not a number going down

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Confession thread, sort of. I went from 1.0mg to 15mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 8 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have constipation…

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u/mei_serrano59 points·18 days ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/karim_hartmann49 points·18 days ago

regain after taper is expected, plan for it

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u/bastian_aalto40 points·18 days ago·edited

the 15mg dose works fine for 72 weeks of the month

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u/ilias_nakamura20 points·18 days ago

the 15mg dose works fine for 72 weeks of the month

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 80 weeks to accept.

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u/nadia_trevino20 points·18 days ago

weight moves within 5kg and that is normal

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u/hedda_ekstrom7 points·18 days ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/purity_pedantOPanalytical42 points·18 days ago

Small correction: the trial was 4 weeks, not 6. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/dilara_nyberg9 points·18 days ago

Small correction: the trial was 4 weeks, not 6.

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

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u/kenji_vasquez20 points·18 days ago

regain is not a moral failing

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