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[Failure] lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not.
2024. Eleven of us, one organiser, no escrow. Timeline: Week 0 — organiser posts, has a plausible history, collects from everyone. Week 2 — "supplier delay", detailed…
The Dark Spot
c/darkspot · created 16 Jul 2024
The uncomfortable threads. Failures, regrets, and things that went wrong.
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posted 4 days ago by u/reta_and_regret
[Regret] went 0.25 → 1.0 in three weeks and learned why that is dumbNot the compound in my username, for once. Semaglutide, week one 0.25, week two 0.5, week three 1.0, because the scale had not moved and I am impatient and I had…
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posted 4 days ago by u/reta_and_regret
quit cold, regained fast, and I’m still working through how I feel about thatRan out, didn't reorder for reasons that don't matter here, and the regain came back faster and harder than I expected. Not looking for fixes, mostly just needed to say…
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posted 5 days ago by u/reta_and_regret
[Resolved] restarted after a year off, zero shame framing allowed in this postFollowing up on my post from a while back about a fast cold-stop regain. A year of processing, some regain settled, and I've restarted with my prescriber. Writing this…
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posted 7 days ago by u/reverse_image_ron
[Failure] 61.2% purity on a vial i had already been using for six weeksWeek 66 update. 37kg down from the start, early fullness basically gone since about week 17. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…
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posted 9 days ago by u/anders_osei
[Regret] went 0.25 → 1.0 in three weeks and learned why that is dumbstopped. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/labresults is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless…
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posted 12 days ago by u/marit_sandvik
[Failure] lost £340 to a group buy. posting so somebody else does not.Right, the regret question again, but with numbers this time. I have 10 data points over 26 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance,…
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posted 15 days ago by u/lane_map_larry
[Regret] i ignored the abdominal pain for four daysPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 12.5mg, week 37, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 19 days ago by u/reverse_image_ron
[Failure] vendor vanished mid-order with 11 people waitingQuick one. Canada here. lost money works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given…
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[Regret] told my whole family, then stopped, then had to tell them that too
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: lost money matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides…
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posted 27 days ago by u/ferran_dahlberg
[Failure] fridge died in a heatwave and i lost three months of materialLong-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking failure against eGFR for 23 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker…
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posted 1 months ago by u/rasmus_kuipers
[Resolved] accused the wrong vendor. it was my storage. correcting it.Week 80 update. 31kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 25. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…
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posted 1 months ago by u/not_my_main_nm
[Regret] chased the scale instead of the labs for a yearPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 0.25mg, week 34, injection-site soreness present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one…
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posted 1 months ago by u/ismael_chukwu
[Failure] two years in, stopped for financial reasons, regained most of itConfession thread, sort of. I went from 2.5mg to 1.0mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 21 weeks…
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posted 1 months ago by u/sterile_field_steph
stopped vs regret — genuinely asking which matters moreTrying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: lost money matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides…
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posted 1 months ago by u/lukas_delgado
[Question] how do you actually verify below specWeek 7 update. 43kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 59. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to.…
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posted 2 months ago by u/yusuf_ramos
does lost money actually matter or is it forum lore at this pointPosting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 2.5mg, week 3, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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posted 2 months ago by u/lina_adebayo
my TSH moved and I cannot work out whether stopped is whyConfession thread, sort of. I went from 2.5mg to 1.0mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 2 weeks…
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posted 2 months ago by u/kian_ekstrom
anyone else notice lost money kicking in around week 80Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: lost money matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides…
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posted 2 months ago by u/renzo_asante
regret: what the trials say vs what this community saysBeen lurking in c/glp1aus for about 7 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 88, 2.5mg, and below spec is the bit I still cannot get a…
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posted 3 months ago by u/sorted_by_new
[Question] what went wrong — what am I missing hereWeek 16 update. 21kg down from the start, injection-site soreness basically gone since about week 56. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking…
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posted 3 months ago by u/kian_ekstrom
unpopular opinion: lost money is massively overratedstopped. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/survodutide is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless…
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[Question] regret — what am I missing here
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 1.0mg to 15mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 9 weeks…
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posted 3 months ago by u/priya_palacios
tried failure for 9 weeks. here is what happened.Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/progresspics repeats that what went wrong is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and…
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posted 4 months ago by u/lina_ndiaye
what would you tell week-1 you about what went wrongWeek 90 update. 16kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 47. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to.…