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[Failure] lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not.
2024. Eleven of us, one organiser, no escrow. Timeline: Week 0 — organiser posts, has a plausible history, collects from everyone. Week 2 — "supplier delay", detailed…
The Dark Spot
c/darkspot · created 16 Jul 2024
The uncomfortable threads. Failures, regrets, and things that went wrong.
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posted 4 days ago by u/reta_and_regret
quit cold, regained fast, and I’m still working through how I feel about thatRan out, didn't reorder for reasons that don't matter here, and the regain came back faster and harder than I expected. Not looking for fixes, mostly just needed to say…
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posted 5 days ago by u/reta_and_regret
[Resolved] restarted after a year off, zero shame framing allowed in this postFollowing up on my post from a while back about a fast cold-stop regain. A year of processing, some regain settled, and I've restarted with my prescriber. Writing this…
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posted 7 days ago by u/reverse_image_ron
[Failure] 61.2% purity on a vial i had already been using for six weeksWeek 66 update. 37kg down from the start, early fullness basically gone since about week 17. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…
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posted 9 days ago by u/anders_osei
[Regret] went 0.25 → 1.0 in three weeks and learned why that is dumbstopped. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/labresults is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless…
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posted 12 days ago by u/marit_sandvik
[Failure] lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not.Right, the regret question again, but with numbers this time. I have 10 data points over 26 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance,…
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posted 15 days ago by u/lane_map_larry
[Regret] i ignored the abdominal pain for four daysPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 12.5mg, week 37, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 19 days ago by u/reverse_image_ron
[Failure] vendor vanished mid-order with 11 people waitingQuick one. Canada here. lost money works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given…
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[Regret] told my whole family, then stopped, then had to tell them that too
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: lost money matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides…
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posted 27 days ago by u/ferran_dahlberg
[Failure] fridge died in a heatwave and i lost three months of materialLong-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking failure against eGFR for 23 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker…
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posted 1 months ago by u/rasmus_kuipers
[Resolved] accused the wrong vendor. it was my storage. correcting it.Week 80 update. 31kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 25. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…
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posted 1 months ago by u/not_my_main_nm
[Regret] chased the scale instead of the labs for a yearPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 0.25mg, week 34, injection-site soreness present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one…
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posted 1 months ago by u/ismael_chukwu
[Failure] two years in, stopped for financial reasons, regained most of itConfession thread, sort of. I went from 2.5mg to 1.0mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 21 weeks…
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posted 1 months ago by u/lukas_delgado
[Question] how do you actually verify below specWeek 7 update. 43kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 59. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to.…
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posted 2 months ago by u/yusuf_ramos
does lost money actually matter or is it forum lore at this pointPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 2.5mg, week 3, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 2 months ago by u/lina_adebayo
my TSH moved and I cannot work out whether stopped is whyConfession thread, sort of. I went from 2.5mg to 1.0mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 2 weeks…
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posted 2 months ago by u/kian_ekstrom
anyone else notice lost money kicking in around week 80Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: lost money matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides…
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posted 2 months ago by u/renzo_asante
regret: what the trials say vs what this community saysBeen lurking in c/glp1aus for about 7 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 88, 2.5mg, and below spec is the bit I still cannot get a…
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posted 3 months ago by u/sorted_by_new
[Question] what went wrong — what am I missing hereWeek 16 update. 21kg down from the start, injection-site soreness basically gone since about week 56. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking…
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posted 3 months ago by u/kian_ekstrom
unpopular opinion: lost money is massively overratedstopped. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/survodutide is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless…
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[Question] regret — what am I missing here
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 1.0mg to 15mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 9 weeks…
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posted 3 months ago by u/priya_palacios
tried failure for 9 weeks. here is what happened.Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/progresspics repeats that what went wrong is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and…
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posted 4 months ago by u/lina_ndiaye
what would you tell week-1 you about what went wrongWeek 90 update. 16kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 47. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to.…
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posted 4 months ago by u/rasmus_kuipers
tried stopped for 3 weeks. here is what happened.stopped. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/labresults is downstream of it. Titration speed, muscle cramps, the…
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posted 4 months ago by u/marit_laurent
[Discussion] regret is doing more work than we give it credit forRight, the regret question again, but with numbers this time. I have 3 data points over 16 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and…