[Discussion] can we stop arguing about interval stretching until somebody posts a number
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: can we stop arguing about interval stretching until somebody posts a number.
Regained most of it over a year and spent that year assuming it was my fault. It was not; it is what the literature describes.
Stopped abruptly once and gradually once. The gradual one was easier to interpret because I could see what was changing.
Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably easier that way round.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Do you have a written baseline from before you started changing anything?
Yes — the withdrawal literature is consistent and it is a pharmacological finding, not a moral one.
Went back on after eight months away. Nobody here made me feel bad about it, which mattered more than I expected.
Stretched from seven days to ten to twelve over four months. Appetite told me where the limit was each time.
write down where you are before you change anything
Interval stretching lowers the trough concentration while keeping the dose; dose reduction lowers the level while keeping the rhythm. They are different interventions with different subjective profiles.
the habits are what has to carry it afterwards
Right, and the habits from the losing phase are the part that has to outlive the dose.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a taper. The exposure profiles differ.
The habits are what carried it for a while. When they slipped, everything else followed, in that order.
coming back later is allowed and it is common
Stopped for cost reasons. Appetite came back at about week 2, well before the scale moved, exactly as this board said it would.
With a week-long half-life, exposure declines over several weeks after the last dose rather than stopping with it. The lag is why the first fortnight is uninformative.
Correcting myself upthread: appetite returned at week 7 for me, not the week I posted.
There is very little published guidance on stopping specifically, which is exactly why board consensus here should carry less weight than usual and a clinician conversation should carry more.
There is very little published guidance on stopping specifically, which is exactly why board consensus here should carry less weight than usual and a
Adding the one process step — write down where you are before you change anything.
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