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c/semaglutide·submitted 1 months ago by u/two_mil_or_one

STEP 1 was -14.9% average and i keep having to remind myself average means average

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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 23 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 muscle…

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u/ffmi_watcher143 points·1 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/teodor_duarte65 points·1 months ago

This matches my experience almost exactly on the Ozempic pens. The titration is the whole point.

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math34 points·1 months ago

Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule

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u/ravi_bergstrom12 points·1 months ago·edited

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/test_it_yourselfvetting34 points·1 months ago

pens are overpriced, research vials are research grade, same molecule different price

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u/source_or_silence41 points·1 months ago·edited

Kept a public log for 85 weeks. The comments are what kept it going, honestly. Accountability from strangers works.

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u/marta_trevino51 points·1 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.7, not 98.9. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/hugo_bergstrom23 points·1 months ago

pens are overpriced, research vials are research grade, same molecule different price

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u/helga_vermeulen96 points·1 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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

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