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c/newbiequestions·posted 2 months ago by u/ilias_cabrera

the beginner question that gets asked weekly, answered properly

Answered Cold Box ×5 Long Haul ×3

Been lurking in c/coa for about 3 months and finally have something worth posting.

Short version: week 86, 0.5mg, and week one is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 25 threads, and the answers split roughly down the middle.

What I actually want to know is whether the people saying it does not matter have measured it, or whether it is just repeated confidently. Happy to be told I am overthinking this — I probably am — but I would rather overthink it now than at week 92.

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u/ines_ekstrom216 points·2 months ago
i have this exact spreadsheet
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u/marisol_kravchenko68 points·2 months ago

This is a good question, genuinely.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp194 points·2 months ago

what is bac water — bacteriostatic water, preservative included

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u/nayeli_iyer58 points·2 months ago

Strongly agree. No question is dumb here.

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[deleted]41 points·2 months ago

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u/constipation_clubside effects53 points·2 months ago

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

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u/nikhil_asante44 points·2 months ago

pens versus vials, same molecule, different price

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u/dario_bakken66 points·2 months ago·edited

the beginner question is not dumb

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u/asks_dumb_questionsMOD113 points·2 months ago

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

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u/arne_restrepo36 points·2 months ago

is this normal week 11 — yes, probably

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u/ffmi_watcher84 points·2 months ago

The basics question took me three weeks to understand. Wiki explained it eventually.

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u/sigrid_kaufmann38 points·2 months ago

what is bac water — bacteriostatic water, preservative included

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u/piotr_bruun0 points·2 months ago

no question too basic, read the wiki first, then ask anyway

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u/laila_yilmaz1 point·2 months ago

pens versus vials, same molecule, different price

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u/soren_nkemelu1 point·2 months ago·edited

what is titration — it means going slow on the escalation

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u/ilias_cabreraOP1 point·2 months ago

Titration means going slow. The 2.4mg is the starter, not the dose you stay on, not the dose you need to feel it.

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u/ilias_cabreraOP1 point·2 months ago

Strongly agree. No question is dumb here.

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u/rekha_vestergaard64 points·2 months ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is what is. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/fabio_nkemelu53 points·2 months ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is what is.

Adding to this: what is is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/enzo_fonseca19 points·2 months ago

the first time question is not dumb

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u/liver_enzyme_liz61 points·2 months ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 19–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/britt_zamora40 points·2 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/ismael_chukwu58 points·2 months ago

pens versus vials, same molecule, different price

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u/santiago_ndiaye25 points·2 months ago

Yeah, that is totally normal for week 5.

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u/laila_delgado-6 points·2 months ago

This is a good question, genuinely.

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u/aurel_boateng1 point·2 months ago

no question too basic, read the wiki first, then ask anyway

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u/camila_marchand1 point·2 months ago

pens versus vials, same molecule, different price

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp1 point·2 months ago

Week 17 or week 11?

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u/ines_ekstrom1 point·2 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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