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Friday 28 March 2025

What is your maintenance dose life actually like?

For everybody wondering what year two is. Tell them. — asked by Benedikt

GillyWorcester, UK

My maintenance dose stopped holding in the spring and we adjusted, and now it is boring again.

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Bass You are allowed to notice how far you have come.

FitzLimerick, IE

Boring, and I mean that as praise.

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WinnieCarlisle, UK

Honestly, it looks like being slightly bored, and I will take slightly bored.

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MairéadMayo, IE

Flat. Unheroic. Correct.

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Mimi Boring wins are the real ones.

OrlaithDonegal, IE

The same shopping, the same walk, the same Tuesday.

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PerlaManila, PH

Eighteen months steady. My Wednesdays are just Wednesdays.

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JontyOxford, UK

Two years and the only change is that I take it on a Tuesday out of pure superstition.

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Marguerite The dog does not accept excuses. Mine is the same.

PippaTruro, UK

It looks like having enough energy to be interested in things other than my own health.

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GwynethAberdare, UK

It looks like not thinking about it. That is genuinely all it is now.

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DashSeattle, WA

A reduced dose, the same day, less of it, no drama.

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TiernanOmagh, NI

It looks like strength work twice a week that I no longer think about.

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DillyNewport, UK

Nothing much is my favourite kind of week and it took me a year to be able to say that.

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Coralie Genuinely pleased for you, and quietly, as instructed.

LilPreston, UK

A reduced dose, the same day, less of it, no drama.

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Zen Rest, if you can. It sounds earned.

LenaMunich, DE

Nothing much looks like: injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, normal weekend.

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ZoëHackney, UK

Nothing much is my favourite kind of week and it took me a year to be able to say that.

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NanNeath, UK

It looks like having enough energy to be interested in things other than my own health.

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