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c/sideeffects·posted 10 months ago by u/cesar_oyelaran

three years of sulphur burps threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

Side Effects Clean Column ×8 The Quiet One ×1 Sourced ×3

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 5mg to 1.7mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 5 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 muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 9 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/rafael_ostergaard354 points·10 months ago

Crossposting this to c/vendorvetting because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/nausea_notesMOD184 points·10 months ago·edited

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

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u/line_petrov264 points·10 months ago

Did the reflux start before or after the dose increase?

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u/reta_and_regret204 points·10 months ago

IANAD and neither is anyone upvoting this

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u/elin_lundgren400 points·10 months ago·edited

This is correct. The early fullness is horrible for three weeks and then just ends.

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u/plain_titration_2024295 points·10 months ago·edited

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

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u/priya_weiss239 points·10 months ago

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

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 67 weeks to accept.

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u/sena_teixeira85 points·10 months ago

resting heart rate moved up 21 bpm and settled back down when I stopped escalating

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u/cesar_oyelaranOP180 points·10 months ago

Resting heart rate up 6 bpm from baseline, settled back down once I stopped escalating. Tracked daily so I am confident.

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u/kavya_kravchenko143 points·10 months ago

the early fullness passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/cesar_oyelaranOP0 points·10 months ago

Resting heart rate up 19 bpm from baseline, settled back down once I stopped escalating. Tracked daily so I am confident.

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u/aa_analysis_andy1 point·10 months ago

week 40 and the early fullness is finally getting better

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u/rekha_mbeki1 point·10 months ago·edited

nausea on day 2 is normal, nausea after week 46 is worth checking

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u/yannick_barros128 points·10 months ago

IANAD and neither is anyone upvoting this

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u/enzo_danquah36 points·10 months ago

This is correct. The muscle cramps is horrible for three weeks and then just ends.

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u/neha_rahimi46 points·10 months ago

This is correct.

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

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u/sofia_wikstrom60 points·10 months ago

hair loss is real and usually reversible when you stabilize

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u/sanne_laurent68 points·10 months ago·edited

IANAD and neither is anyone upvoting this

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u/diego_sorensen32 points·10 months ago

IANAD and neither is anyone upvoting this

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

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u/baseline_drifteranalytical-9 points·10 months ago

ask your actual doctor, not us

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u/step_therapy_s42 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree. Describe your dose, your week number, and your titration speed or nobody can help.

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u/ilias_cabrera15 points·10 months ago

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Disagree on that part. 97.9% and 97.6% on the same vial is normal.

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u/rekha_mbeki6 points·10 months ago

hair loss is real and usually reversible when you stabilize

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u/cesar_oyelaranOP18 points·10 months ago

resting heart rate moved up 5 bpm and settled back down when I stopped escalating

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u/mass_spec_maggieMS12 points·10 months ago

sulphur burps are disgusting but not dangerous, 3 weeks and they stopped

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u/aurel_mwangi8 points·10 months ago

How many weeks in are you? 4 weeks is noise, 5 weeks is a trend.

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u/halima_mbeki19 points·10 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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