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c/glp1aus·posted 1 year ago by u/emil_wojcik

New Zealand: what the trials say vs what this community says

Question Long Haul ×2 Sourced ×1

Been lurking in c/hplc for about 15 months and finally have something worth posting.

Short version: week 11, 10mg, and New Zealand is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 7 threads, and the answers split roughly down the middle.

What I actually want to know is whether the people saying it does not matter have measured it, or whether it is just repeated confidently. Happy to be told I am overthinking this — I probably am — but I would rather overthink it now than at week 17.

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u/sena_balogun155 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. AU and NZ differ.

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u/zeynep_ndiaye121 points·1 year ago

Came off after 43 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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u/tl_dr_tina42 points·1 year ago

AU and NZ are different systems, say which

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u/anecdata_annie122 points·1 year ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/erez_perrin96 points·1 year ago

New Zealand is different on the two sides

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u/honest_syringe3384 points·1 year ago·edited

the regulatory TGA is the blocker

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u/emil_wojcikOP32 points·1 year ago

unfunded-means-full-price is the NZ reality

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u/zeynep_weiss82 points·1 year ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/emil_wojcikOP46 points·1 year ago

Week 85 for me and the honest summary is: 26kg down, injection-site soreness manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/no_refunds_nr13 points·1 year ago

Week 85 for me and the honest summary is: 26kg down, injection-site soreness manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

Adding to this: shortage is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/blunt_coldbox_2024-33 points·1 year ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics1 point·1 year ago

no naming compounders operating against current rules

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u/emil_wojcikOP1 point·1 year ago

Strongly agree. AU and NZ differ.

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u/tarek_lokken1 point·1 year ago

shortage is different on the two sides

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u/quiet_reader_9944 points·1 year ago·edited

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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