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has anyone actually found their floor — the lowest dose that still holds the line
19 months in, at goal for about seven of those. Been slowly working with my prescriber to see how low I can go and still hold steady rather than just staying on…
Maintenance Phase
c/maintenancephase · created 11 Dec 2023
After the loss stops. Lowest effective dose, regain, and the long game.
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posted 3 days ago by u/gentle_correction
[Meta] should this community rename "maintenance phase" to something that doesn’t sound like an afterthoughtHalf-serious, half-not. "Maintenance phase" as a name kind of implies it's the boring bit after the real thing happened. Reading enough threads here has convinced me…
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nobody warned me about the identity gap once the thing that organized your life for a year is just... gone
For over a year, "losing weight" was a structuring project. Tracked, planned, celebrated milestones, had a clear direction. Hit goal, and there's genuinely a weird flat…
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posted 5 days ago by u/dose_creep_dan
six weeks flat at my top dose, is going up even an option at this point or just a bad ideaBeen at my current dose for four months, first three months of steady loss then six weeks completely flat. Rolling average and all. Not panicking this time (learned…
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posted 5 days ago by u/dose_creep_dan
went up a dose over a stall that turned out to be dehydration, learned an expensive lessonFollowing up on my six-week-stall post from a while back. Went up. Two rough weeks of side effects. Scale moved... and then it turned out a chunk of the "movement" was…
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posted 7 days ago by u/taper_off_tabitha
tapered slowly over four months instead of stopping cold, regain was 4kg not 24Coming off deliberately after 22 months, worked with my prescriber on a gradual step-down over about four months rather than just stopping. One year post-taper:…
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posted 9 days ago by u/maintenance_mode_max
the week 8 version of this is different from the week 4 wall and I don’t think enough people separate themEveryone's well drilled on "week 4 is normal, don't panic". Fewer people talk about the week 8-ish stall, which in my experience and a bunch of others I've compared…
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posted 10 days ago by u/salma_almeida
19 months at maintenance. the interesting part starts after the loss stops.long term. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/intlshipping is downstream of it. Titration speed, muscle cramps, the…
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posted 11 days ago by u/nadia_nascimento
[Long Term] found my lowest effective dose by going down, not upRight, the lowest effective dose question again, but with numbers this time. I have 10 data points over 22 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think…
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posted 15 days ago by u/throwaway_9182
[Question] does anyone actually feel "done" or is that not a thingPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 2.5mg, week 48, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 16 days ago by u/throwaway_9182
[Regain] 4kg back over a year and i am calling that a winPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 10mg, week 36, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 19 days ago by u/purity_pedant
[Discussion] we have no vocabulary for success that is not a number going downConfession 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…
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posted 23 days ago by u/piotr_grimaldi
[Results] two years, weight stable within 3kg, dose at a quarter of peakTrying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: regain matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have…
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posted 25 days ago by u/nils_tulloch
stretching to 10 days instead of 7 — anyone doing this long termBeen lurking in c/retatrutide for about 5 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 91, 10mg, and lowest effective dose is the bit I still…
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posted 29 days ago by u/anders_vermeulen
[Long Term] what my labs look like three years inPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 5mg, week 18, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 1 months ago by u/britt_abubakar
[Regain] appetite came back over about five weeks, not overnightSomething I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of…
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posted 1 months ago by u/ferritin_low
[Question] do you tell new people how long this actually isLong-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking maintenance against ApoB for 3 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker…
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posted 1 months ago by u/osman_ferrari
[Meta] can maintenance get its own weekly thread, the loss posts drown us outBeen lurking in c/compounding for about 16 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 17, 0.5mg, and dose stretching is the bit I still cannot…
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posted 1 months ago by u/andres_dahlberg
clothes fit the same for 14 months and it is genuinely strangePosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 0.5mg, week 79, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 1 months ago by u/priya_weiss
goal weight — 18 things I got wrong before I got it rightRight, the lowest effective dose question again, but with numbers this time. I have 6 data points over 34 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it…
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posted 1 months ago by u/fatima_yildiz
[Meta] the regain rule is doing its job and people should stop complainingConfession thread, sort of. I went from 7.5mg to 2.4mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 12 weeks…
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posted 1 months ago by u/sofia_wikstrom
[Discussion] we are measuring regain at the wrong time and calling it noiseI have had 5 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe. Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied…
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posted 2 months ago by u/nils_tulloch
lowest effective dose: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1Been lurking in c/compounding for about 20 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 54, 1.0mg, and dose stretching is the bit I still cannot…
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posted 2 months ago by u/usp_appendix
switched from 0.25mg to 1.7mg and the constipation got better, not worseLong-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking maintenance against ApoB for 7 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker…
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posted 2 months ago by u/priya_weiss
genuine question about lowest effective dose that I am slightly embarrassed to askSomething I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of…