Does a plateau mean the dose is wrong

Something that reframed it: a flat stretch is weather, not a verdict. Somebody wrote that here two years ago and I have carried it around ever since.

What got me through was measuring things that were not the scale. Stairs, sleep, how far I could walk before I wanted to stop. All of those were moving while the number was not.

What I say to anybody in one now is that you are still here, still on treatment, still doing the thing. That is the whole of what a flat stretch asks of you.

Nol — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I want to add the unglamorous version: mine was boring rather than distressing. Weeks of nothing, mild irritation, and then it moved. Not every plateau is a crisis.

Twelve weeks of nothing here too. I remember the exact fortnight when I stopped believing anything would change, and then it did, and I still cannot tell you why.

Coming back six months later to close the loop, because I hate threads that stop. Mine lasted seventeen weeks and then quietly ended and I did not notice for a fortnight.

Same here, and I am glad you said it first.

I found that keeping a two-line diary through a plateau was the only way to see that anything at all was happening. From inside the week it looked like nothing.

Thank you. Genuinely.

The second flat stretch was much easier than the first, purely because I had already survived one and knew the shape of it.

Plateau weeks are the ones where this community is most useful, in my experience. There is nothing to celebrate and nothing to fix, and the only thing that helps is company.

My prescriber was completely unbothered by mine, which annoyed me at the time and turned out to be the correct response. She said bodies do this and asked me to come back in eight weeks.

I stopped weighing anything during mine, entirely, for three months. It was the single kindest decision I made that year and my prescriber was fine with it.

The bit that was hardest to say out loud was that I felt cheated. Not sad, not discouraged. Cheated. It helped enormously to name it accurately.

Agreed, and I have nothing to add to it.

What helped was giving the flat stretch a job. I used mine to sort out sleep, which had been quietly terrible for a year and had nothing to do with any of this.

I am eight weeks into one now and reading this thread because I need to hear that other people got through theirs. That is all. No question attached.