three years of appetite return threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
Thinking out loud about this: three years of appetite return threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Went back on after eight months away. Nobody here made me feel bad about it, which mattered more than I expected. Had the conversation with a clinician before stopping rather than after. Considerably…
A written baseline — dose, date, weight, waist, and how appetite feels — taken before any change is what makes the following months interpretable rather than a series of impressions.
How long were you at the dose you are coming off?
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.
Yes — have the conversation before rather than after. That is the one piece of process advice this board can give.
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.
What is prompting the decision — cost, supply, side effects, or something else?
What is prompting the decision — cost, supply, side effects, or something else?
Adding the one process step — write down where you are before you change anything.