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c/meta·posted 2 years ago by u/naomi_erdogan

Spain: meta, and what it actually costs here

Appeal Well Actually ×4 Slow Clap ×2

Week 77 update. 13kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 22.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/dose_creep_dan96 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Transparency wins.

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u/rekha_mwangi60 points·2 years ago

My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.

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u/hassan_castellanos92 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the evidence standard works.

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[deleted]69 points·2 years ago

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u/naomi_erdoganOP52 points·2 years ago

The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.

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u/tuva_iyer118 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Transparency wins.

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u/halima_mbeki72 points·2 years ago

What are you comparing it against though?

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u/salma_almeida57 points·2 years ago

Small correction: the trial was 24 weeks, not 35. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/mod_ambulatoryadmin58 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Transparency wins.

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u/scam_taxonomyc/scamalerts22 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/cloudy_vial_carol-12 points·2 years ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/camila_marchand43 points·2 years 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/discount_math_dm19 points·2 years ago

the periodic argument about moderation standards

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u/naomi_erdoganOP14 points·2 years ago

the periodic argument about moderation standards

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/scam_taxonomyc/scamalerts35 points·2 years ago

rules, moderation, ranking, wiki

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u/soren_osei21 points·2 years ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/hamza_weiss19 points·2 years ago

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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u/rosa_almeida7 points·2 years ago

the moderation decision is logged

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u/hub_opssite staff4 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the evidence standard works.

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u/naomi_erdoganOP3 points·2 years ago

The muscle cramps was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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u/sanne_laurent1 point·2 years ago

the ranking formula is meta

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u/yannick_petrov24 points·2 years ago·edited

the ranking formula is meta

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u/dario_petrescu7 points·2 years ago

This is correct. Modmail first.

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u/milos_trevino2 points·2 years ago·edited

Second this question. I have wondered about meta for 12 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/tuva_iyer1 point·2 years ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/ismael_varga21 points·2 years ago·edited

the periodic argument about moderation standards

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