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How the published trials escalated, tabulated side by side

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cannula_traceTL3Regular23 Dec 2025#2

Understood, and I withdraw the assumption I opened with.

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g.amankwahTL2 Solution6 Jan 2026 · edited#3

Holding a dose indefinitely: the trials did not study indefinite holding at a non-maximum dose. The trials escalated to a target and then held that. What happens if you stay at an intermediate dose for years is not formally studied and extrapolation is the best available reasoning.

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outline_firstTL3Wiki editor19 Jan 2026#4

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.

Take the reasoning and check the arithmetic; I do not always get it right.

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steady_stateTL3Regular3 Mar 2026#8

Post #6 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.

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.

I looked this up rather than remembered it, which is the right order.

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b.teixeiraTL213 Mar 2026#9

I had read the opposite somewhere and cannot now find where, which tells me something.

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