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am I the only one who found lowest effective dose harder than the injections

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Quick one. Canada here.

regain works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 22 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/aleksi_eriksen68 points·1 year ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/osman_ferrari16 points·1 year ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/nadia_trevino7 points·1 year ago

the 10mg dose works fine for 64 weeks of the month

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u/santiago_ndiaye54 points·1 year ago

the long term question changes at maintenance

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u/laila_almeida36 points·1 year ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/paloma_stanescu25 points·1 year ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 22–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/elise_ramos6 points·1 year ago·edited

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/copay_card_cc7 points·1 year ago

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

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u/aurel_mwangi17 points·1 year ago

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

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD9 points·1 year ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/dario_petrescu4 points·1 year ago·edited

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

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