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c/coldchain·posted 5 months ago by u/coa_collector

the packaging thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down

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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 3 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 muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 67 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/intent_to_treat40 points·5 months ago

Crossposting this to c/glp1science because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/coa_collectorOParchivist47 points·4 months ago

customs clearance often breaks the cold chain, factor that in

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u/priya_guerrero25 points·4 months ago
four days. it took four days for me.
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u/mod_cold_roomMOD13 points·4 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/amara_dziedzic9 points·4 months ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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u/marit_laurent7 points·4 months ago

no tracking numbers, no full addresses, no label photos — instant removal

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u/osman_eriksen6 points·4 months ago

Reconstituted or dry powder?

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u/nightowl_injector19 points·5 months ago

Do you have the logger trace?

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u/intent_to_treat-32 points·5 months ago

lane reports need origin, destination, carrier, and actual transit days

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u/coldchain_karencold chain1 point·4 months ago

stability after excursion is not zero, it is dose-dependent

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u/priya_guerrero5 points·5 months ago

customs clearance often breaks the cold chain, factor that in

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u/transit_variance12 points·5 months ago·edited

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/soren_yildiz5 points·4 months ago

Strongly agree. Peak temperature is not the whole story.

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u/ines_lindqvist7 points·4 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/andres_restrepo8 points·5 months ago

France to France: 4 days with WXT and 7 days with TFC. Same route, different carriers, variance is real.

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain4 points·4 months ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 7–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/lina_almeida6 points·4 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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