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c/glp1eu·posted 1 year ago by u/emeka_beaulieu

prescription: what the trials say vs what this community says

Question Cold Box ×3 Slow Clap ×1

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 12.5mg to 5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 7 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have early fullness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 89 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/marit_coelho170 points·1 year ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/nl_verzekeringMOD90 points·1 year ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/ahmed_fonseca-33 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Tag your country.

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u/tuva_aalto1 point·1 year ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/meera_oyelaran1 point·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Pricing is local.

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u/priya_guerrero1 point·1 year ago·edited

Today's date for the pricing?

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u/lucia_bruun1 point·1 year ago

private and public prescription routes differ

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u/cormac_erdogan1 point·1 year ago

Today's date for the pricing?

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

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u/emeka_beaulieuOP1 point·1 year ago

reimbursement costs in the UK this month

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u/priya_guerrero1 point·1 year ago·edited

pharmacy stock varies by country and season

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u/santiago_rasmussen91 points·1 year ago

Week 51 for me and the honest summary is: 14kg down, muscle cramps manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/anya_moreau26 points·1 year ago·edited

the Spain answer is not the Spain answer

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u/hydration_hank31 points·1 year ago

reimbursement reality differs sharply

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u/emeka_beaulieuOP12 points·1 year ago

Apotheke or receta or what?

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u/sten_bhattacharya66 points·1 year ago·edited

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/anya_moreau38 points·1 year ago

apotheke, receta, pharmacy — twenty-seven different answers

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u/still_here_202613 points·1 year ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/plateau_patrol11 points·1 year ago

tag your country in the title, bare EU gets a template

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u/lucia_bruun3 points·1 year ago

pharmacy stock varies by country and season

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u/nikhil_asante2 points·1 year ago

reimbursement reality differs sharply

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u/nabila_ogunleye0 points·1 year ago

EMA notices are different from national ones

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u/nadia_bakker29 points·1 year ago

Week 19 for me and the honest summary is: 23kg down, nausea manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/dario_bakken13 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Tag your country.

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u/elin_lindqvist8 points·1 year ago

EMA and national agency claims need citation

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