Priya, 45–50
Twelve months, including a nine-week stretch where nothing moved
Somebody should have told me at the start that there would be about two months where this looked like it had stopped working.
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Treatment experiences
What the months in the middle are like — the parts that rarely make it into a leaflet. Plateaus, dose changes, and the gap between what people expect and what happens.
When treatment doesn’t go as planned
Plateaus, dose changes, stopping and restarting. The middle of a treatment year is where expectations and reality separate — and where most people are least prepared.
Elena Marchetti · 4 Aug 2026
James, 50–55
Stopped in week four of a first attempt; restarted a year later
The hardest week was also the week I was furthest from anyone I could ask a small question.
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What a year of tracking actually shows
People who keep a record describe a different year from people who do not — not a better one, but one they can talk about specifically.
Elena Marchetti · 23 Jun 2026
The first four weeks
Almost everyone who stops early stops in the first month. A look at what the accounts of that period have in common.
Elena Marchetti · 2 Jun 2026