England. Full timeline, dates approximate to the month for obvious reasons. Month 0 — GP referral to specialist weight management. BMI comfortably over threshold, two…
GLP-1 UK
c/glp1uk · created 15 Jan 2024
NHS pathways, private prescriptions, pharmacy pricing, MHRA notices.
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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking NHS against triglycerides for 25 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is…
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 11 weeks…
Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 2.5mg, week 35, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
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Reference standardsQuick one. Canada here. tier 3 works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice…
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: tier 3 matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have…
Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 1.0mg, week 43, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable —…
Been lurking in c/insurancefights for about 21 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 89, 15mg, and private prescription is the bit I…
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: tier 3 matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have…
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: pricing matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides…
Week 65 update. 46kg down from the start, early fullness basically gone since about week 10. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…
Right, the pharmacy question again, but with numbers this time. I have 19 data points over 26 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance,…
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking MHRA against ApoB for 5 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I…
Quick one. Canada here. pharmacy works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice…
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/dosinglogs repeats that NHS is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I…
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glbiochem.netSomething I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on private prescription in this community changed substantially around the start…
MHRA. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/progresspics is downstream of it. Titration speed, muscle cramps, the…
Been lurking in c/insurancefights for about 6 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 40, 2.4mg, and private prescription is the bit I…
Quick one. Canada here. NHS works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that…
NHS. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/progresspics is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless dose…
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on pricing in this community changed substantially around the start of last year,…
Been lurking in c/trialwatch for about 4 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 4, 2.5mg, and tier 3 is the bit I still cannot get a…
NHS. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/labresults is downstream of it. Titration speed, muscle cramps, the endless…
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/dosinglogs repeats that NHS is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I…
Week 11 update. 22kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 51. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…