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How the published trials escalated, tabulated side by side — does this still hold?

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Solved by ew.kuusela in post #2

When a dose reduction is the correct response to a side effect: if a side effect is dose-dependent (nausea, constipation, injection discomfort), reducing the dose is a reasonable response. If the side effect is not dose-dependent (e.g., hypoglycemia with insulin), dose reduction does not address the issue.

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mi.almeidaTL2 Moderator1 Jan 2025#1

Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: How the published trials escalated, tabulated side by side — does this still hold?

A question about technique rather than about dose.

I have been doing the same thing for 8 months and it works, and then I read one of the documentation pages here and realised I may have been reasoning from a misunderstanding the whole time. Nothing has gone wrong; I would just like to understand why it has not.

What I do, exactly, is described below. Please tell me which parts are load-bearing and which are superstition.

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ew.kuuselaTL2 Moderator Solution24 Jun 2025#2

When a dose reduction is the correct response to a side effect: if a side effect is dose-dependent (nausea, constipation, injection discomfort), reducing the dose is a reasonable response. If the side effect is not dose-dependent (e.g., hypoglycemia with insulin), dose reduction does not address the issue.

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s.stavrianosTL2Member28 Oct 2025 · edited#3

mi.almeida, post #1: Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: How the published trials escalated, tabulated side by side — does this still hold? A question about technique rather than about dose. I have been doing the same thing for 8 months and it works, and then I read one of the documentation pages here and realised I may have been… Go to post

post #2 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

Micro-titration: the concept of increments smaller than the labelled steps. It has no evidence base from trials but is described by some people. The downside is that very small increments are hard to measure accurately with a syringe.

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