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c/progresspics·posted 1 year ago by u/elise_ramos

[Discussion] timeframe is doing more work than we give it credit for

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Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on timeframe in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/flair_enthusiast310 points·1 year ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 10–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/week_two_confused_202673 points·1 year 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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u/fibre_forward106 points·1 year ago

Second this question. I have wondered about progress for 20 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/rosa_almeida64 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 95.1, not 94.2. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/lucia_balogun200 points·1 year ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/downvote_magnet168 points·1 year ago

text removes the comparison trap

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u/elise_ramosOP97 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Process matters more than the number.

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u/gradient_goblin-21 points·1 year ago

no commenting on anybody's body, comment on the process

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u/elise_ramosOP1 point·1 year ago

The reflux was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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u/marta_marchand0 points·1 year ago
tl;dr for anyone scrolling: milestone
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u/aleksi_eriksen1 point·1 year ago·edited

text only is the whole point of the community

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u/sigrid_kaufmann115 points·1 year ago·edited

The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.

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u/rasmus_mensah28 points·1 year ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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u/gradient_goblin20 points·1 year ago

include timeframe and starting point or it is a brag with no info

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u/milos_vestergaard9 points·1 year ago·edited

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp77 points·1 year ago

The fatigue was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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u/santiago_szabo27 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Process matters more than the number.

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u/elise_ramosOP16 points·1 year ago

starting point, current point, timeframe, dose history

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u/rosa_almeida4 points·1 year ago

9 months, 43kg, timeframe

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u/pavel_halvorsen25 points·1 year ago·edited

include timeframe and starting point or it is a brag with no info

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u/india_generic_g15 points·1 year ago

the community is deliberately image-free

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u/runa_cabrera9 points·1 year ago

text removes the comparison trap

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u/anders_karlsen43 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/georgi_adebayo20 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

Disagree on that part. 96.8% and 96.2% on the same vial is normal.

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u/blunt_coldbox46 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Process matters more than the number.

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u/hassan_chowdhury16 points·1 year ago

Which country? Half the answers in this thread only apply in Germany.

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u/yara_antonsen12 points·1 year ago

Which country?

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

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u/wholesome_lurkerMOD22 points·1 year ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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[deleted]8 points·1 year ago

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u/runa_cabrera5 points·1 year ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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