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c/maintenancephase·posted 6 months ago by u/zaid_eriksen

maintenance vs dose stretching — genuinely asking which matters more

Long Term

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

I have been tracking maintenance against triglycerides for 37 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.

0 up / 0 down49% upvoted6 commentsid snwolw9 Jan 2026

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6 in this archive, depth 3

best — the order this archive was captured in

u/hassan_ostergaard5 points·6 months ago

Regain on a taper is expected. 10% back over 24 weeks, which matches the discontinuation data. Planned for it.

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u/zaid_eriksenOP2 points·6 months ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach. 1.7mg worked for 13 weeks, then cravings returned. 0.5mg was the actual floor.

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u/osman_ferrari1 point·6 months ago

Tried the lowest-effective approach.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 34 weeks to accept.

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u/paper_trail_paulavetting3 points·6 months ago

regain is not a moral failing

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u/nadia_trevino2 points·6 months ago

the 2.4mg dose works fine for 95 weeks of the month

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD1 point·6 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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