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c/maintenancephase·posted 12 months ago by u/cesar_oyelaran

anyone else notice regain kicking in around week 90

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking maintenance against eGFR for 35 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 assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/karim_hartmann352 points·12 months ago

the 2.4mg dose works fine for 43 weeks of the month

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u/adnan_sandvik-26 points·12 months ago

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

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u/throwaway_91821 point·12 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/usp_appendixcompendial1 point·12 months ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/salma_almeida322 points·12 months ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/cesar_oyelaranOP469 points·12 months ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/gradient_goblin169 points·12 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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u/piotr_grimaldi257 points·12 months ago

Maintenance for 7 months now. 0.25mg every 8 days, weight 26±7kg. Found the rhythm.

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u/purity_pedantanalytical149 points·12 months ago

The plateau is real and boring. 14 weeks at the same weight, then movement again. Patience was the intervention.

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[removed]110 points·12 months ago

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u/vitamin_d_void59 points·12 months ago

food noise returns but not always immediately

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u/kofi_ferreira17 points·12 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting27 points·12 months ago

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

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u/anders_osei53 points·12 months ago

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

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u/hedda_ekstrom162 points·12 months ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 20 is not maintenance

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u/nnt_nate190 points·12 months ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/cesar_oyelaranOP74 points·12 months ago

lowest effective dose is dose stretching, find it or stay higher

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u/dilara_nyberg122 points·12 months ago

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

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u/anders_vermeulen106 points·12 months ago
nobody says this and everybody needs to hear it
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u/gradient_goblin35 points·12 months ago·edited

the long term question changes at maintenance

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u/milos_vestergaard19 points·12 months ago

the 12.5mg dose works fine for 62 weeks of the month

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u/graph_it_gary66 points·12 months ago
four days. it took four days for me.
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u/brigade_detector31 points·12 months ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/graph_it_gary10 points·12 months ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 50 weeks to accept.

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u/rasmus_petrescu3 points·12 months ago

lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher

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u/constipation_clubside effects7 points·12 months ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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

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u/nils_tulloch3 points·12 months ago

the plateau is where the learning happens

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The part nobody posts about: what happens at goal weight. Finding a lowest effective dose, dose-interval stretching, regain risk data, muscle retention, the psychology of not having a number to chase, and staying on indefinitely versus tapering.

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