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c/newbiequestions·posted 7 months ago by u/yannick_salinas

[Meta] the first time rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 5mg, week 9, injection-site soreness present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — normal — and tracked it for 23 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/nayeli_iyer9 points·7 months ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/lina_bruun2 points·7 months ago

Yeah, that is totally normal for week 11.

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u/wholesome_lurkerMOD5 points·7 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/asks_dumb_questions-8 points·7 months ago

Yeah, that is totally normal for week 17.

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u/elise_grimaldi1 point·7 months ago

Strongly agree. No question is dumb here.

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u/rekha_teixeira1 point·7 months ago

Not to be pedantic but what is and what is are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/yannick_salinasOP1 point·7 months ago

Week 16 checking in: nothing on the scale, no nausea, wondering if the pen is broken. No, it is just week 16.

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u/swirl_dont_shakereconstitution1 point·7 months ago·edited

what is a COA — certificate of analysis, document from the lab

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u/rekha_teixeira4 points·7 months ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/karma_irrelevant3 points·7 months ago

rudeness is removed faster than bad questions

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u/plain_titration3 points·7 months ago

Pens or research vials?

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