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c/glp1women·posted 8 months ago by u/neha_rahimi

small win: fertility stopped being a problem at week 55

PCOS Cold Box ×5

Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/orforglipron repeats that insulin resistance is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 23 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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28 in this archive, depth 5

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u/viktor_erdogan143 points·8 months ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/jonas_cardoso118 points·8 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.7, not 97.4. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/hair_shed_hannah86 points·8 months ago

cycle changes are real and under-researched

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[removed]60 points·8 months ago

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u/santiago_villalobos-19 points·8 months ago

the trials mostly studied men, perimenopause skipped

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u/zeynep_weiss95 points·8 months ago

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

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u/vitamin_d_void53 points·8 months ago

contraception interaction claims need citation

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u/gentle_correctionMOD83 points·8 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/hair_shed_hannah40 points·8 months ago

Tracking number removed.

Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/emeka_chowdhury49 points·8 months ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/jarno_karlsen69 points·8 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/cesar_oyelaran59 points·8 months ago

contraception interaction claims need citation

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u/ewan_zielinski36 points·8 months ago

perimenopause and menopause weight physiology

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u/yusuf_ramos21 points·8 months ago

perimenopause and menopause weight physiology

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 48 weeks to accept.

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u/aleksi_eriksen5 points·8 months ago

pregnancy and trying-to-conceive get clinician pointer, not community advice

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u/kian_solberg6 points·8 months ago·edited

Has anyone actually got this in writing, or is it forum lore at this point?

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u/neha_rahimiOP2 points·8 months ago

fertility signal is there but unclear

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u/rina_sobczak11 points·8 months ago·edited

the cycle question is under-powered in trials

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u/column_dead_volume8 points·8 months ago

fertility signal is there but unclear

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u/rasmus_petrescu6 points·8 months ago

fertility signal is there but unclear

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/kian_solberg7 points·8 months ago

hair-loss on PCOS is real

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u/micro_bump_mick20 points·8 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/ilias_steiner6 points·8 months ago

no cycle-tracking data with identifying details

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u/signe_villalobos12 points·8 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/neha_rahimiOP9 points·8 months ago

the cycle tracking data matters, keep it private

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u/low_appetite_lisa14 points·8 months ago

Genuine question — what concentration were you at?

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u/neha_rahimiOP6 points·8 months ago

Came off after 32 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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u/santiago_marchetti4 points·8 months ago

This is correct. PCOS is real.

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