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c/semaglutide·submitted 6 months ago by u/hassan_castellanos

does 2.4mg actually matter or is it forum lore at this point

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Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: semaglutide matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 21 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 3 people measuring the…

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u/marit_coelho1.5k points·6 months ago

My reflux was worst at 0.5mg and better at 0.25mg, which makes no sense and I have stopped trying to explain it.

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u/hassan_castellanosOP2.2k points·6 months ago

My reflux was worst at 0.5mg and better at 0.25mg, which makes no sense and I have stopped trying to explain it.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 79 weeks to accept.

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u/hassan_castellanosOP1.8k points·6 months ago

Week 73 for me and the honest summary is: 33kg down, constipation manageable, and the quiet happened around week 24.

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u/greta_perrin0 points·6 months ago

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

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u/vikram_mbeki1.4k points·6 months ago

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

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u/vikram_ferreira383 points·6 months ago

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

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u/freya_baptista381 points·6 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/adnan_karlsen636 points·6 months ago

Week 73 for me and the honest summary is: 33kg down, constipation manageable, and the quiet happened around week 24.

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

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[deleted]1.1k points·6 months ago

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u/ewan_tulloch1.6k points·6 months ago

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

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u/stubborn_batchlist_only1.1k points·6 months ago

Not to be pedantic but Wegovy and weekly dosing are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/ffmi_watcher353 points·6 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/quiet_moderatormod1k points·6 months ago·edited

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

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u/endpoint_creep845 points·6 months ago

titration speed is titration plus side effects, period

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