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c/tirzepatide·posted 2 months ago by u/mikkel_ogunleye

unpopular opinion: Zepbound is massively overrated

Side Effects Receipts ×4

I have had 17 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe.

Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 24 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February.

The independent number came back 97.9% against a claimed 98.0%, which I read as agreement rather than a discrepancy — inter-lab variance on this assay is a point or two either way and treating one lab as ground truth is how people end up in pointless arguments with vendors.

Batch number is in the comments. Ask if you want the method.

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u/noor_hovland21 points·2 months ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlyMOD12 points·2 months ago

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

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u/matias_salgado3 points·2 months ago

week 41 on Mounjaro and the appetite profile is genuinely different from sema

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u/dario_vermeulen15 points·2 months ago

Cosigning. The GIP contribution is real and the side effects are not simply scaled versions.

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u/forest_plot_fionastats12 points·2 months ago

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

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u/sanne_novak17 points·2 months ago·edited

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

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u/nz_unfunded7 points·2 months ago

do not crack the pen, we have been over this

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[deleted]3 points·2 months ago

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u/elin_ferrari5 points·2 months 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/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide3 points·2 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/mikkel_ogunleye1 point·2 months ago

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

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u/elin_varga1 point·2 months ago

do not crack the pen, we have been over this

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u/yusuf_ramos1 point·2 months ago

dual agonism is dual agonist, do not generalise from semaglutide

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u/laila_yilmaz-17 points·2 months ago

dual agonism is dual agonist, do not generalise from semaglutide

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 95.1% on the same vial is normal.

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u/ghrp_history3 points·2 months ago

Cosigning. The GIP contribution is real and the side effects are not simply scaled versions.

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u/dario_stanescu1 point·2 months ago

Not to be pedantic but SURMOUNT and dual agonist are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/gentle_correctionnice about it1 point·2 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/laila_yilmaz2 points·2 months ago

the dual agonism hits different and that is why people describe it differently

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u/mikkel_ogunleyeOP2 points·2 months ago·edited

the dual agonism hits different and that is why people describe it differently

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 20 weeks to accept.

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