stalled for 11 weeks at 15mg and I refuse to panic this time
stalled for 11 weeks at 15mg and I refuse to panic this time. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. 11 weeks and 15mg — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend. Interval stretching lowers the trough concentration while keeping the dose; dose reduction…
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.
Same. A quiet fortnight after stopping tells you very little; the interesting part starts later.
That is a pause rather than a stop, and the plans for the two are not the same.
Agreed that returning later is common and it is treated here as ordinary rather than as a defeat.
write down where you are before you change anything
regain is the expected outcome and framing it as failure helps nobody
Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably easier that way round.
What are you planning to watch for, and over what period?
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a taper. The exposure profiles differ.