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Does holding at 1 mg for twelve weeks before escalating reduce constipation?

Asked 22 Mar 2024Modified 2.4 years agoViewed 53k times
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Conditions: 1 mg · twelve weeks · constipation.

I want to know whether this is a real physical effect or an artefact of how it is measured.

What prompted the question is an inconsistency between two sources I otherwise trust.

Why does this happen, and what would falsify the usual explanation?

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askedlinnea_wahlberg17k2722 Mar 2024
Same situation here, so I will follow this one. – laminar_bench 3 months ago
How long since the last increase? That is the first thing anyone will ask. – leonid_marchuk 4 months ago
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