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c/semaglutide·posted 2 months ago by u/archived_thread_a

week 51 check-in — 26kg down, fatigue manageable, one thing confusing me

Discussion Long Haul ×6

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 0.5mg to 12.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 15 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 injection-site soreness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 76 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/rina_bergstrom79 points·2 months ago

week 34 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/plain_titration39 points·2 months ago·edited

Right, and the corollary is that stopping escalation does not reset your tolerance, it just pauses the clock.

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u/archived_thread_aOP56 points·2 months ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/marit_coelho44 points·2 months ago

week 88 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/ewan_tulloch15 points·2 months ago

the 2.4mg dose is not the target, it is just what the pen goes up to

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u/greta_lokken14 points·2 months ago

week 89 on the pen, 35kg down, this is the answer

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u/nausea_notesMOD24 points·2 months ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/careful_gradient_again27 points·2 months ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/quiet_moderatormod7 points·2 months ago

week 6 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/niels_lindqvist21 points·2 months ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide16 points·2 months ago

Cosigning. The slow route gets the outcome, the fast route gets you the side effects.

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u/camila_sandvik14 points·2 months ago·edited

the 2.4mg dose is not the target, it is just what the pen goes up to

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u/rasmus_kimani12 points·2 months ago

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

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u/archived_thread_aOP2 points·2 months ago

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

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u/source_or_silence19 points·2 months ago·edited

What was the method? "HPLC" is a technique, not a method.

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u/endpoint_creep5 points·2 months ago

Right, and the corollary is that stopping escalation does not reset your tolerance, it just pauses the clock.

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u/kenji_vasquez2 points·2 months ago

What colour is the pen? Wegovy and Ozempic use different formulations.

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u/ismael_chukwu10 points·2 months ago

Week 16 for me and the honest summary is: 29kg down, fatigue manageable, and the quiet happened around week 16.

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u/slow_logbook_notes15 points·2 months ago

the nausea passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/adnan_karlsen7 points·2 months ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/wanjiru_varga-36 points·2 months ago

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

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u/salma_vasquez5 points·2 months ago·edited

the sulphur burps passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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