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c/newbiequestions·posted 4 months ago by u/wholesome_lurker

[Question] the UK — has anyone got a straight answer on what is

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking beginner against A1c for 37 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/aurel_mwangi63 points·4 months ago·edited

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/rt_shift_reggie24 points·4 months ago

Strongly agree. No question is dumb here.

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u/wholesome_lurkerOP12 points·4 months ago

Pens or research vials?

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u/rekha_teixeira16 points·4 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/wholesome_lurkerOP-26 points·4 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/plain_titration1 point·4 months ago

be kind, condescending answers are removed

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u/micro_bump_mick45 points·4 months ago

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

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u/wholesome_lurkerOP32 points·4 months ago

Titration means going slow. The 2.4mg is the starter, not the dose you stay on, not the dose you need to feel it.

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u/britt_zamora40 points·4 months ago·edited
post the spreadsheet
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u/liver_enzyme_liz30 points·4 months ago

Are you on a pen or vial?

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u/fabio_nkemelu13 points·4 months ago

is this normal week 9 — yes, probably

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u/ines_ekstrom7 points·4 months ago

no question too basic, read the wiki first, then ask anyway

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u/lina_adebayo22 points·4 months ago

Are you on a pen or vial?

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

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u/kaplan_meier_kim12 points·4 months 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/solene_abubakar3 points·4 months ago

week two nothing happening — yes, that is normal

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u/due_diligence_dee13 points·4 months ago

what is bac water — bacteriostatic water, preservative included

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