small win: A1c stopped being a problem at week 50
Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.
Setup: 5mg, week 77, injection-site soreness present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — metformin — and tracked it for 5 weeks.
Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.
Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
hypoglycaemia risk when stacked with A1c
the eGFR change is the signal
Strongly agree. A1c matters as much as weight.
The nausea was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.
No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.
post A1c with units and assay date
Yeah, glycaemic control is the original use.
Yeah, glycaemic control is the original use.
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
Maintenance for 8 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.
Came off after 5 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.
Maintenance for 8 months now.
Adding to this: metformin is doing more work than the comment implies.
the triglycerides change is the signal
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
hypoglycaemia risk when stacked with A1c
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Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.
Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.
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