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c/tapering·posted 13 days ago by u/patient_labslip_log

[Regain] appetite came back over five weeks, here is the timeline

Regain

Quick one. Canada here.

discontinuation works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 6 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/coldchain_karencold chain31 points·13 days ago

Crossposting this to c/progresspics because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/zeynep_villalobos21 points·12 days ago

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

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u/adaeze_brandt16 points·12 days ago

the 24 week discontinuation arm is the data

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u/vikram_asante4 points·12 days ago

Slight fix: the number was 96.8, not 94.2. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/taper_off_tabithaMOD14 points·12 days ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/quarter_dose_queenlow and slow11 points·12 days ago

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

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u/zeynep_weiss17 points·12 days ago·edited

What was the batch number and which service?

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u/hana_lehtinen12 points·12 days ago

the regain is treatment of chronic condition ending, not failure

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u/laila_delgado4 points·12 days ago

Slight fix: the number was 97.6, not 99.2. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/border_paperwork2 points·12 days ago

This is correct. Discontinuation data is real.

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u/cormac_roos17 points·12 days ago

Poland here. Waited 2 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.

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Stopping on purpose: dose reduction versus interval stretching, what the discontinuation arms of STEP 1 and SURMOUNT-4 actually showed about regain, appetite return timelines, and the people who came off, regained, and went back on without treating it as a failure.

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