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c/tirzepatide·posted 1 year ago by u/gentle_correction

tried tirzepatide for 24 weeks. here is what happened.

Side Effects Cold Box ×3 Sourced ×1 Well Actually ×1

Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 2.4mg, week 14, injection-site soreness present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — SURPASS — and tracked it for 16 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.

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u/taper_off_tabitha401 points·1 year 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/b12_baseline331 points·1 year ago

the GIP side does different things than the GLP-1 side, that is the point

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u/nabila_ogunleye0 points·1 year ago

What was the trial arm you are quoting from? SURMOUNT-1, -2, -3 are all different.

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u/gentle_correctionOPnice about it179 points·1 year ago

The SURMOUNT readouts are real but less consistent than STEP. Some people plateau earlier on tirz.

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u/gentle_correctionOPnice about it0 points·1 year ago

week 73 on Mounjaro and the appetite profile is genuinely different from sema

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u/hub_opssite staff403 points·1 year ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/zeynep_ndiaye173 points·1 year ago

the GIP side does different things than the GLP-1 side, that is the point

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u/b12_baseline132 points·1 year ago

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

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u/marit_sandvik29 points·1 year ago

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

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp8 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 10 weeks, not 10. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/britt_okwuosa294 points·1 year ago

nope, the equivalence to semaglutide is not known, comparing 15mg tirz to 2.4mg sema is guessing

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u/kian_ekstrom122 points·1 year ago

nope, the equivalence to semaglutide is not known, comparing 15mg tirz to 2.4mg sema is guessing

Disagree on that part. 99.2% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/zeynep_zielinski256 points·1 year ago
^ this
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u/georgi_chowdhury141 points·1 year ago

the reflux from tirz is different, not necessarily worse

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