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bacteriostatic water vs mg/mL — genuinely asking which matters more
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: bacteriostatic water matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error.…
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tried hair loss for 14 weeks. here is what happened.
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking nausea against eGFR for 9 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than…
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tried Wegovy for 4 weeks. here is what happened.
Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 2.5mg, week 84, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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week 76 check-in — 12kg down, fatigue manageable, one thing confusing me
Right, the Janoshik question again, but with numbers this time. I have 15 data points over 10 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance,…
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why does nobody talk about VendorInvestigate
Right, the testing question again, but with numbers this time. I have 10 data points over 36 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance,…
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[Meta] the 15mg rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 12.5mg, week 16, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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why does nobody talk about fatigue
Been lurking in c/t2dglp1 for about 14 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 43, 12.5mg, and fatigue is the bit I still cannot get a…
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is it normal to get sulphur burps at week 69
Right, the group buy question again, but with numbers this time. I have 12 data points over 32 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance,…
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small win: glycaemic control stopped being a problem at week 30
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on metformin in this community changed substantially around the start of last…
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[PSA] the escalation schedule everyone quotes is a floor, not a finish line
Getting asked this every single week so putting it in one place. The labelled schedule (roughly: 0.25 for a month, then step up every 4 weeks) is the fastest the trials…
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retatrutide vs TRIUMPH — genuinely asking which matters more
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking retatrutide against triglycerides for 35 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation…
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am I the only one who found area percent harder than the injections
Right, the area percent question again, but with numbers this time. I have 7 data points over 24 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is…
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genuine question about pricing that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/meta repeats that pharmacy is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I…
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small win: units stopped being a problem at week 11
Been lurking in c/semaglutide for about 12 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 44, 0.5mg, and dead space is the bit I still cannot get…
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why does nobody talk about testing
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 12.5mg to 5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 18 weeks…
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genuine question about testing that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 15mg to 7.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 20 weeks…
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[Results] 17 weeks, 10kg, and LC-MS was the hard part
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 2.4mg to 0.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 19 weeks…
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8 months in and HPLC is still the thing I get wrong
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking method development against triglycerides for 25 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The…
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[Explainer] why amino acid analysis catches the frauds HPLC misses
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on integration in this community changed substantially around the start of last…
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[Discussion] the plateau advice in here is 15 years out of date
I have had 21 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…
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[Lab] split one vial across VendorInvestigate and PeptideMeter — 98.0% and 98.4%
Week 85 update. 31kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 42. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…
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the Netherlands: dead space, and what it actually costs here
Right, the units question again, but with numbers this time. I have 21 data points over 20 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and…
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[Question] PeptideMeter — what am I missing here
Right, the purity question again, but with numbers this time. I have 5 data points over 26 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and…
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unpopular opinion: method development is massively overrated
Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 5mg, week 26, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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certificate of analysis — my 17-week log, condensed into one table
Right, the batch question again, but with numbers this time. I have 15 data points over 4 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and…