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c/tapering·submitted 1 year ago by u/aleksi_lehtinen

how much of what we believe about appetite return actually comes from regain threads

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The title is the whole question — how much of what we believe about appetite return actually comes from regain threads — but here is why I am asking. Nothing on this board is a taper schedule, and no member can write one for another. What can be shared is what people watched and what they observed. There is very…

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u/controversial_only60 points·1 year ago

Same. A quiet fortnight after stopping tells you very little; the interesting part starts later.

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u/aleksi_lehtinenOP31 points·1 year ago

That is a pause rather than a stop, and the plans for the two are not the same.

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u/appeal_letter_al10 points·1 year ago

nobody here can write you a taper schedule

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u/dario_vermeulen24 points·1 year ago

a fortnight of nothing is not evidence that you are fine

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u/pavel_halvorsen20 points·1 year ago

Not convinced. Two weeks of stable weight is not evidence of anything yet.

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u/ahmed_cardoso16 points·1 year ago

Right, and the habits from the losing phase are the part that has to outlive the dose.

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u/zeynep_weiss6 points·1 year ago

the habits are what has to carry it afterwards

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u/quarter_dose_queenlow and slow8 points·1 year ago

Yes — the withdrawal literature is consistent and it is a pharmacological finding, not a moral one.

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u/viktor_laurent5 points·1 year ago

stopping is a plan, not an event

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u/aleksi_lehtinenOP3 points·1 year ago

Correcting myself upthread: appetite returned at week 13 for me, not the week I posted.

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u/janek_ferrari1 point·1 year ago

cost and supply are the two most common reasons and both are legitimate

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u/vikram_asante19 points·1 year ago

stopping abruptly and stopping gradually are different experiences

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