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c/tapering·posted 3 months ago by u/zeynep_weiss

[Results] 87 weeks, 11kg, and interval stretching was the hard part

Results Cold Box ×2 The Quiet One ×3

Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/bloodwork repeats that interval stretching is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 12 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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u/ferran_krastev229 points·3 months ago·edited

The nausea was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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u/yara_bakken75 points·3 months ago

tapering instructions are not welcome here

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u/zeynep_weissOP48 points·3 months ago·edited

Maintenance for 17 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/marta_dziedzic39 points·3 months ago·edited

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/border_paperwork-2 points·3 months ago

interval stretching versus dose reduction

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u/source_or_silence51 points·3 months ago

tapering instructions are not welcome here

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

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u/maintenance_mode_maxmaintenance95 points·3 months ago

Came off after 13 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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u/fabio_lehtinen33 points·3 months ago

the 6 week discontinuation arm is the data

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u/maintenance_mode_maxMOD78 points·3 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/ines_boateng65 points·3 months ago·edited

interval stretching versus dose reduction

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u/helga_vermeulen50 points·3 months ago

Which country? Half the answers in this thread only apply in Spain.

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u/ilias_kaufmann91 points·3 months ago

STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 discontinuation arms show regain

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u/zeynep_weissOP55 points·3 months ago

the 5 week discontinuation arm is the data

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u/vikram_ferreira62 points·3 months ago·edited

say how long you were on and at what dose before taper

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u/priya_weiss57 points·3 months ago

Strongly agree. The regain is expected.

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u/ahmed_okafor44 points·3 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/zeynep_weissOP24 points·3 months ago

The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.

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u/careful_gradient11 points·3 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/meera_oyelaran3 points·3 months ago·edited

the people who came off and restarted without shame

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u/ilias_kaufmann28 points·3 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/lift_heavy_thingsresistance training44 points·3 months ago
nope. mine was the opposite.
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u/appeal_letter_al13 points·3 months ago

appetite return timelines vary tapering

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u/osman_eriksen9 points·3 months ago

cite the discontinuation data rather than guessing regain rates

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u/taper_off_tabitha27 points·3 months ago

the people who came off and restarted without shame

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u/patient_labslip_log9 points·3 months ago·edited

cite the discontinuation data rather than guessing regain rates

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u/marta_marchand21 points·3 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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