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c/tirzepatide·posted 5 months ago by u/thyroid_tangent

what changed for me between week 5 and week 48

Question Clean Column ×8

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 0.5mg to 12.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 16 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 early fullness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 7 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/priya_guerrero34 points·5 months ago

Yeah, dual agonism does produce a different appetite profile than GLP-1 alone.

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u/taper_off_tabitha31 points·5 months ago

stalled on sema, tried tirz, and the curves were actually different shapes

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u/dexa_twice_yearlyMOD18 points·5 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/ignacio_vanhecke17 points·5 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/hugo_bergstrom13 points·5 months ago

stalled on sema, tried tirz, and the curves were actually different shapes

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u/kian_ekstrom6 points·5 months ago·edited

the muscle cramps from tirz is different, not necessarily worse

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u/blunt_coldbox293 points·5 months ago·edited

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

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u/hassan_nilsen4 points·5 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/georgi_chowdhury-11 points·5 months ago

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

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u/halima_boateng1 point·5 months ago

the appetite change on tirz is more than just reduced hunger, it is different machinery

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u/sofia_nascimento1 point·5 months ago

the appetite change on tirz is more than just reduced hunger, it is different machinery

Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 97.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/halima_boateng1 point·5 months ago

Strongly agree. Tirz is better than sema is not a claim without a comparator dose.

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u/thyroid_tangentOP1 point·5 months ago

Zepbound and Mounjaro are literally the same drug, the name is the only difference

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u/spain_receta1 point·5 months ago

week 92 on Mounjaro and the appetite profile is genuinely different from sema

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u/matias_salgado1 point·5 months ago

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

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u/certified_referenceQC1 point·5 months ago

SURMOUNT data is messier than STEP data but the weight loss is there

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u/ignacio_vanhecke1 point·5 months ago

SURMOUNT data is messier than STEP data but the weight loss is there

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

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