[Question] timeframe — what am I missing here
Confession thread, sort of.
I went from 15mg to 7.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 20 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 sulphur burps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.
Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 20 reads it before doing the same thing.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.
The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.
The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet.
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 39 weeks to accept.
This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.
Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.
Came off after 48 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.
I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.
Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with progress, not with what you concluded.
include timeframe and starting point or it is a brag with no info
text removes the comparison trap
text removes the comparison trap
text removes the body-shaming pile-on
Strongly agree. NSV counts.
Not to be pedantic but non-scale victory and milestone are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.
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No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.
Came off after 58 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.
Yeah, text-only removes the comparison.
The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.
text removes the comparison trap
Yeah, text-only removes the comparison.
include timeframe and starting point or it is a brag with no info
Yeah, text-only removes the comparison.
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
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