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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: The maximum studied dose is a fact about the trial and not a ceiling on the molecule. It is also the last point at which anything is known, which is the reason to treat it as one. The confident version of this sentence would be wrong, so here is the hedged one. Go to post

Concentration and dose get conflated constantly in this subcategory. Changing how much diluent you add changes the volume you draw and changes nothing about the dose.

Marking that as an opinion rather than a finding.

24 likes in reply to #4 18mo

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. I have read the maintained page on this and I still have a gap, so I am asking rather than guessing. Context: tirzepatide, 5 weeks in, currently at a dose I reached by the standard… Go to post

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 have deliberately not rounded that, because the rounding is where the argument starts.

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m.coelhoTL227 Apr 2025#19

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

Writing down the date, the dose and the site each week takes fifteen seconds and is the single most useful record anyone here keeps. Memory reconstructs a titration history that never happened.

33 likes 15mo

k.agyemanTL227 May 2025#23

Marking my place. If it changes for me I will come back and say so.

32 likes 14mo

no.silvaTL227 Jul 2025#32

If someone has run holding a dose properly I would rather read that than my own reconstruction of it. Posting mine only because the thread has gone quiet.

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