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c/semaglutide·posted 11 months ago by u/kenji_vasquez

[Discussion] the plateau advice in here is 15 years out of date

Discussion Well Actually ×2 Slow Clap ×1 Receipts ×2

I have had 21 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe.

Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 4 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February.

The independent number came back 99.0% against a claimed 98.0%, which I read as agreement rather than a discrepancy — inter-lab variance on this assay is a point or two either way and treating one lab as ground truth is how people end up in pointless arguments with vendors.

Batch number is in the comments. Ask if you want the method.

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u/marta_trevino435 points·11 months ago

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

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[removed]165 points·11 months ago

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u/customs_seizure_sid44 points·11 months ago

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

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u/zeynep_weiss208 points·11 months ago

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

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u/helga_vermeulen305 points·11 months ago

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

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u/boots_or_bust244 points·11 months ago

Yeah, 11 weeks on 2.4mg, same pattern, same timing.

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u/hamza_weiss80 points·11 months ago

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

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u/kenji_vasquezOP63 points·11 months ago

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

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u/dose_creep_dan15 points·11 months ago

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

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u/greta_lokken39 points·11 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.7, not 98.6. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/quiet_moderatorMOD151 points·11 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/kenji_vasquezOP55 points·11 months ago

Kept a public log for 7 weeks. The comments are what kept it going, honestly. Accountability from strangers works.

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u/noor_hovland98 points·11 months ago

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

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u/slow_logbook_notes44 points·11 months ago

Hard agree. Week 43 me needed this. Week 92 me is nodding smugly.

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u/hassan_castellanos-11 points·11 months ago

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

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u/sofia_wikstrom1 point·11 months ago

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

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u/meta_analysis_mo73 points·11 months ago
appreciate you saying you do not know
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u/camila_sandvik45 points·11 months ago

nope, 0.25 counts, it is just not the dose most people stay on

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u/sofia_wikstrom51 points·11 months ago
reading this at 2am on my 43th week. thank you.
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u/kenji_vasquezOP37 points·11 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/greta_perrin32 points·11 months ago

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

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u/iman_castellanos24 points·11 months ago

Yeah, 78 weeks on 5mg, same pattern, same timing.

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u/marit_coelho15 points·11 months ago

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

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u/slow_logbook_notes5 points·11 months ago·edited

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

Disagree on that part. 96.2% and 96.8% on the same vial is normal.

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u/adnan_karlsen7 points·11 months ago

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

Adding to this: food noise is doing more work than the comment implies.

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