I’m getting much better suppression on the lowest doses

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I’m sure I’ll get shouted at for messing with the doses, but I’ve tried split dosing this week. I have a 15mg pen.

I did 10mg on Monday of last week. It worked well, but not brilliantly. I was exercising my self control this week, which is obviously fine!

Last night I did a 5mg to top up to the full 15mg. WOW. This morning the suppression ive not had for months is back full force. I do not fancy any food, I’ve had to force myself to meal prep because even doing that has made my stomach turn.

What the hell is this about? If this is how it’s going to be, I’ll bring myself down to the lower doses again using my stock of 15mg pens and stay on a lower dose. Obviously time will tell how long this suppression lasts, but so far I’m absolutely baffled.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I would plot the doses you are doing on a tracking app like Shotsy or DoseDiary or the free websites. You might spot how your suppression maps to the peaks of medication in your system.

Or it might just be random. Sometimes suppression seems to vary for no apparent reason.

Sometimes I get days where I have no interest in food, others I could eat anything. My dose hasn’t changed much in 15 months.

The problem you have with changing doses up/down erratically/weekly is you are not giving the level of medication in your system the 4 weeks it needs to level off (going up or down) and your body time to adjust and respond this new level. This makes it impossible to understand which dose is actually working for you.