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Do you know what dosage your treatment consisted of?

Full 5 month treatment at slightly under 1mg/kg/day (60mg).

A second, unfinished, 10 month treatment aborted after around 7 months at 0.5mg/kg/day (40mg – I'd put on 10kg of muscle). The lower dose was to reduce the almost daily nosebleeds I was experiencing on 1mg/kg/day.

1 mg is an insane dosis. No wonder you had to endure that shit.

A study suggests that doses as low as 0.25-0.4 mg/kg are sufficient: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2010.....

While I have to agree, 1mg/kg seems to be by far the most commonly prescribed dose at present. Perhaps that will eventually change in light of the recent research you've mentioned.

Yeah, no doubt. That's what bothers me; sometimes, your doctor is prescribing treatment that could harm you, even though they may not know it.

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