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c/semaglutide·posted 12 months ago by u/ahmed_okafor

[Discussion] we are measuring Wegovy at the wrong time and calling it noise

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

Setup: 7.5mg, week 35, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — weekly dosing — and tracked it for 17 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/stubborn_batchlist_only413 points·12 months ago

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

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u/helga_vermeulen0 points·12 months ago

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

Disagree on that part. 98.7% and 97.4% on the same vial is normal.

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u/ismael_chukwu1 point·12 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 97.6, not 98.1. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/joaquin_stanescu183 points·12 months ago

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

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u/vikram_ferreira157 points·12 months ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/hamza_weiss131 points·12 months ago

titration speed is semaglutide plus side effects, period

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u/diego_sorensen69 points·12 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/ahmed_okaforOP39 points·12 months ago

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

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u/georgi_haddad105 points·12 months ago

my TSH moved before the scale did and i nearly missed it

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u/meta_analysis_mo56 points·12 months ago

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

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u/diego_sorensen78 points·12 months ago

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

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u/micro_bump_mick19 points·12 months ago

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

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