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c/tapering·submitted 4 months ago by u/diego_szabo

interval stretching — my 5-week log, condensed into one table

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appetite return. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/coa is downstream of it. Titration speed, muscle cramps, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort appetite return out first, and almost nobody does. I say this having got it wrong for 3 months.…

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u/priya_guerrero241 points·4 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/taper_off_tabithaMOD149 points·4 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/diego_szaboOP78 points·4 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes.

Adding to this: discontinuation is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/diego_szaboOP44 points·4 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/diego_szaboOP26 points·4 months ago

Maintenance for 10 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/viktor_laurent21 points·4 months ago

STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 discontinuation arms show regain

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u/vial_math_verasyringe math142 points·4 months ago·edited

Second this question. I have wondered about interval stretching for 5 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/ismael_eriksen41 points·4 months ago

Strongly agree. The regain is expected.

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u/liv_kuipers36 points·4 months ago

no shaming people who restart

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u/priya_weiss11 points·4 months ago

cite the discontinuation data rather than guessing regain rates

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Stopping on purpose: dose reduction versus interval stretching, what the discontinuation arms of STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 actually showed about regain, appetite return timelines, and the people who came off, regained, and went back on without treating it as a failure.

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