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c/newbiequestions·posted 1 year ago by u/neha_falk

switched from 0.5mg to 2.4mg and early fullness got better, not worse

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switched from 0.5mg to 2.4mg and early fullness got better, not worse — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.

Pulling the figures out of the title: 0.5mg and 2.4mg. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed.

A certificate of analysis is a document describing one batch: what was tested, by what method, and what the result was. Its value depends entirely on whether it names the batch and the method.

Titration is a tolerance ladder. Each step exists so the gastrointestinal effects settle before the next increase, which is why the intervals are what they are.

Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.

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u/fabio_nkemelu277 points·1 year ago

Concentration is mass over volume, and a U-100 syringe reads 100 units per millilitre. Those two facts are the whole of the arithmetic this board keeps explaining.

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u/hugo_norgaard-34 points·1 year ago

no question is too basic here, that is the entire point of the board

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u/lina_adebayo233 points·1 year ago

The injection was scarier in my head than in reality. It took about ten seconds and I felt slightly silly afterwards.

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u/ilias_cabrera176 points·1 year ago

Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters. Do not do that; they are not the middle of the distribution.

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u/micro_bump_mick0 points·1 year ago

Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters.

This is the answer. Everything else in the thread is elaboration on it.

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u/lina_bruun123 points·1 year ago

Right, and writing the concentration on the vial is the single best habit anyone here can start with.

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u/neha_falkOP89 points·1 year ago

Right, and writing the concentration on the vial is the single best habit anyone here can start with.

Agreed, and for anyone finding this later: that is the normal experience, not a warning sign.

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u/reads_the_wiki58 points·1 year ago

Gently disagree with the framing — nothing has gone wrong. Week 6 looking flat is the ordinary experience.

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u/renzo_yildiz86 points·1 year ago

Nothing on this board is medical advice, and the people answering you — including me — are members with spreadsheets rather than clinicians.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp99 points·1 year ago

Appetite change and weight change are different measurements on different timescales. The first is usually noticed first and the second lags it.

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u/neha_falkOP73 points·1 year ago

appetite change usually shows up before the scale does

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u/clara_danquah30 points·1 year ago

ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it

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u/rt_shift_reggie0 points·1 year ago

Appetite change and weight change are different measurements on different timescales.

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

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u/constipation_clubside effects67 points·1 year ago

the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase

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u/escrow_evangelist54 points·1 year ago

a COA is a certificate of analysis, the lab document for a batch

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u/ines_krastev29 points·1 year ago

Has the appetite changed, even if the scale has not?

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u/sofia_petrescu12 points·1 year ago

the injection is easier than you are imagining

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u/wholesome_lurker39 points·1 year ago·edited

I confused two very similar words on my first order and asked here, expecting to be mocked. Three people explained it properly instead.

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u/karma_irrelevant47 points·1 year ago

Yes. The starting dose is a tolerance step. It is not supposed to do very much.

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u/britta_boateng34 points·1 year ago

What is the actual question underneath the question? Happy to answer both.

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u/aurel_boateng23 points·1 year ago

I would not panic about that. It is on the list of ordinary first-month experiences.

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u/denied_again_d23 points·1 year ago

Agreed that appetite moves before the scale. Knowing that in advance saves a lot of week-three panic.

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u/neha_falkOP18 points·1 year ago

Which country? Half the answers here only apply in one place.

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