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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/sarcopenia_watch52 points·17 days ago

the 15mg dose works fine for 63 weeks of the month

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u/fatima_yildiz27 points·17 days ago

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

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u/teodor_duarte6 points·17 days ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with regain, not with what you concluded.

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u/hedda_aguirre42 points·17 days ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/karim_hartmann27 points·17 days ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/old_account_202320 points·17 days ago

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

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u/santiago_lindqvist11 points·17 days ago

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

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 96.2% on the same vial is normal.

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u/dario_petrescu14 points·17 days ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/osman_ferrari4 points·16 days ago

the maintenance question changes at maintenance

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