sarah_TO said:The OASIS programme put 50mg oral in the same territory as 2.4mg injectable — around 15% mean weight loss — but it needed a dose 20 times larger to…
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
TinaHashiRN said:The dose-response is real but shallow at the top.
I will push back on the "any working dose is fine" framing. The maintenance evidence sits overwhelmingly at the top studied dose, and the extension data shows regain tracking dose reduction rather than tracking stopping. Holding low is reasonable; pretending it is evidentially equivalent is not.
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Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.