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c/sideeffects·posted 2 years ago by u/peptidemeter_pat

[Meta] proposal — a flair for hair loss posts

PSA Clean Column ×3 Receipts ×2 Long Haul ×1

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking hair loss against eGFR for 17 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/ferritin_low967 points·2 years ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/adaeze_brandt580 points·2 years ago

severe abdominal pain is an urgent-care question, not a forum question

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u/peptidemeter_patOP382 points·2 years ago

My reflux was worst at 2.5mg and better at 5mg, which makes no sense but it is real.

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u/ferran_krastev96 points·2 years ago

early fullness at 12.5mg is different from 15mg

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u/zeynep_ndiaye242 points·2 years ago

resting heart rate moved up 10 bpm and settled back down when I stopped escalating

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u/usp_appendixcompendial730 points·2 years ago

Are you on a pen or research vial? The formulation changes the profile.

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u/nabila_ogunleye0 points·2 years ago

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

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u/ferritin_low1 point·2 years ago·edited

Did the muscle cramps start before or after the dose increase?

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u/yannick_barros428 points·2 years ago

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

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u/quiet_moderatorMOD281 points·2 years ago

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

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u/step_therapy_s71 points·2 years 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/peptidemeter_patOP-14 points·2 years ago

The early fullness was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. Week 84 me did not think I would make it to week 35.

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u/halima_mbeki1 point·2 years ago

constipation is real, boring, and fixable

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u/line_petrov37 points·2 years ago

Not to be pedantic but reflux and hair loss are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/wrong_network_w179 points·2 years ago

The injection-site soreness passes. I kept a log and the timeline was the only useful thing. 22 weeks and it was basically gone.

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u/sofia_wikstrom0 points·2 years ago

Are you on a pen or research vial? The formulation changes the profile.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian1 point·2 years ago

the muscle cramps passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/peptidemeter_patOP1 point·2 years ago

week 31 and the constipation is finally getting better

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