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c/meta·posted 1 year ago by u/dario_petrescu

[Question] how do you actually verify ranking

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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 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 41 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/yusuf_achebe10 points·1 year 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/ice_pack_auditcold chain6 points·1 year ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 22–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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[removed]4 points·1 year ago

[removed by moderator]

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp1 point·1 year ago

the ranking formula is meta

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u/injection_site_iris4 points·1 year 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/dario_petrescuOP2 points·1 year ago

Week 91 for me and the honest summary is: 37kg down, early fullness manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/dario_petrescuOP1 point·1 year ago

Maintenance for 12 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/rasmus_kuipers3 points·1 year ago·edited

the wiki is the source

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u/mod_ambulatoryadmin0 points·1 year ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/kenji_demir2 points·1 year ago·edited

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/marit_mwangi1 point·1 year ago

Not to be pedantic but disclosure and meta are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/lucia_balogun1 point·1 year ago·edited

the 21 month rule change is in effect

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u/marisol_frisk1 point·1 year ago·edited

Strongly agree. Transparency wins.

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u/salma_almeida1 point·1 year ago

Strongly agree.

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

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u/rulebook_rachaelMOD1 point·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/camila_marchand1 point·1 year ago

rules, moderation, ranking, wiki

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u/dario_petrescuOP1 point·1 year ago

Came off after 9 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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