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c/semaglutide·posted 2 years ago by u/ravi_sandvik

reading semaglutide threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

PSA Clean Column ×6 Slow Clap ×2 The Quiet One ×1

Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/glp1canada repeats that food noise is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 19 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math1.7k points·2 years ago

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

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u/ravi_sandvikOP2.5k points·2 years ago

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

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 36 weeks to accept.

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u/test_it_yourselfvetting-13 points·2 years ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with semaglutide, not with what you concluded.

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u/ravi_sandvikOP1 point·2 years ago

Disagree.

Disagree on that part. 99.0% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/stubborn_batchlist_only1k points·2 years ago

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

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u/viktor_nkemelu323 points·2 years ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/quiet_moderatormod490 points·2 years ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/aleksi_grimaldi585 points·2 years ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/units_not_mgMOD449 points·2 years ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/aleksi_grimaldi307 points·2 years ago

stalled at 1.7mg, went up, and regretted it, the stall would have broken anyway

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u/iman_falk0 points·2 years ago

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

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u/camila_mensa1 point·2 years ago

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

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u/ravi_sandvikOP1 point·2 years ago

week 51 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math1 point·2 years ago·edited

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

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u/greta_perrin145 points·2 years ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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[deleted]60 points·2 years ago

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u/arne_amankwah76 points·2 years ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with 2.4mg, not with what you concluded.

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u/dose_creep_dan53 points·2 years ago

Slight fix: the number was 99.1, not 98.4. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/ewan_tulloch42 points·2 years ago

Hard agree. Week 38 me needed this. Week 90 me is nodding smugly.

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u/greta_lokken41 points·2 years ago

Slight fix: the number was 99.1, not 98.4.

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

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u/wanjiru_varga24 points·2 years ago

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

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