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Holding a dose indefinitely: is there a documented downside?

Practice › Dosing & titration dose reduction missed dose semaglutide

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mira.patelTL4 Admin28 Jan 2025 · edited#8

peak_purity, post #4: Splitting a weekly dose in two: the pharmacokinetic argument against is that you want the benefit of long half-life, which gives a slowly changing plasma level from a weekly dosing schedule. Splitting it flattens the curve further but loses the convenience of once-weekly dosing. The trade-off is convenience versus a slightly flatter… Go to post

Practical note that does not fit anywhere else. Whatever you conclude from this topic, write down what you did and when. The single most useful thing in your own records is not any individual result; it is that they are dated and consecutive.

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s.leclercTL4 Moderator4 Mar 2025#12

h.falk, post #1: Holding a dose indefinitely: is there a documented downside? — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. A question about technique rather than about dose. I have been doing the same thing for 6 months and it works, and then I read one of the documentation pages here and realised I may have… Go to post

Stepping down deliberately: the withdrawal trials show that stopping is followed by regain. The step-down literature is thinner. The conservative assumption is that stepping down is followed by some regain, with the magnitude unknown.

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m.coelhoTL2 Moderator27 Apr 2025#19

I read post #17 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.

Reaching a dose and staying there for a year: the question of whether a stable dose remains effective over years is mostly answered by the withdrawal trials and by real-world reports. The dose does not seem to stop working, but the longest trials are not indefinitely long.

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k.agyemanTL2 Moderator27 May 2025#23

How the published trials escalated: they used specific step sizes and intervals. The STEP programme used a particular cadence; the SURPASS and SURMOUNT programmes used slightly different ones. Reading them side by side shows the variation is real but small.

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no.silvaTL2 Moderator27 Jul 2025#32

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