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c/tapering·posted 1 year ago by u/rekha_teixeira

tried interval stretching for 15 weeks. here is what happened.

Question Well Actually ×1 Cold Box ×2

Week 54 update. 40kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 94.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/dario_stanescu343 points·1 year ago

cite the discontinuation data rather than guessing regain rates

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[deleted]128 points·1 year ago

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u/marisol_kravchenko40 points·1 year ago

Yeah, regain is not a failure.

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u/elin_varga225 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/britta_boateng178 points·1 year ago

regain on taper is expected, plan for it

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u/rekha_teixeiraOP141 points·1 year ago

regain on taper is expected, plan for it

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/micro_bump_mick93 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Discontinuation data is real.

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u/lift_heavy_thingsresistance training52 points·1 year ago

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

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u/ismael_varga129 points·1 year ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/skip_week_scepticMOD124 points·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/neha_mwangi84 points·1 year ago

coming off deliberately, not by accident

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u/britta_boateng56 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/liv_kuipers37 points·1 year ago

cite the discontinuation data rather than guessing regain rates

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u/rekha_teixeiraOP29 points·1 year ago

Maintenance for 4 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/marisol_kravchenko62 points·1 year ago

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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u/rekha_teixeiraOP23 points·1 year 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/appeal_letter_al18 points·1 year ago

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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

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u/valeria_girard62 points·1 year ago

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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u/micro_bump_mick20 points·1 year ago

Second this question. I have wondered about discontinuation for 19 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/zeynep_weiss60 points·1 year ago·edited

What was the batch number and which service?

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u/andres_restrepo40 points·1 year ago

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

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u/rekha_teixeira25 points·1 year ago

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/lane_watchermod · logistics21 points·1 year ago

interval stretching versus dose reduction

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u/zeynep_ndiaye15 points·1 year ago

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

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u/neha_krastev0 points·1 year ago

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

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u/peptidemeter_pat0 points·1 year ago

STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 discontinuation arms show regain

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u/valeria_cardoso1 point·1 year ago

appetite return timelines vary regain

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u/ferran_krastev8 points·1 year ago

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

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

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