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c/semaglutide·posted 1 year ago by u/noor_hovland

does semaglutide actually matter or is it forum lore at this point

Side Effects Receipts ×7 Cold Box ×2 Well Actually ×2

2.4mg. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/progresspics is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort 2.4mg out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 7 months. My fasting insulin was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/throwaway_titration565 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/rafael_ostergaard271 points·1 year ago

the sulphur burps passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/anya_antonsen97 points·1 year ago

the sulphur burps passes.

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

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u/noor_hovlandOP-36 points·1 year ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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u/ferritin_low220 points·1 year ago·edited

titration speed is food noise plus side effects, period

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u/b12_baseline172 points·1 year ago

titration speed is food noise plus side effects, period

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 55 weeks to accept.

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[deleted]75 points·1 year ago

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u/anya_salgado117 points·1 year ago

Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule

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u/camila_mensa169 points·1 year ago

Did anything else change in the same window? Sleep, protein, steps, anything?

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide326 points·1 year ago

week 67 on the pen, 24kg down, this is the answer

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u/reflux_report172 points·1 year ago

week 67 on the pen, 24kg down, this is the answer

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

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u/noor_hovlandOP126 points·1 year ago

Lost 30kg and gained a genuinely irritating amount of interest in analytical chemistry. This site did that to me.

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u/ffmi_watcher183 points·1 year ago

pens are overpriced, research vials are research grade, same molecule different price

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u/runa_wikstrom69 points·1 year ago

What was the method? "HPLC" is a technique, not a method.

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u/joaquin_stanescu61 points·1 year ago

week 12 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/nausea_notesside effects21 points·1 year ago

Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule

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u/arne_restrepo34 points·1 year ago

Did anything else change in the same window? Sleep, protein, steps, anything?

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u/rania_diallo331 points·1 year ago

the 2.4mg dose is not the target, it is just what the pen goes up to

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u/anya_erdogan212 points·1 year ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/hassan_castellanos134 points·1 year ago

the 2.4mg dose is not the target, it is just what the pen goes up to

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

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u/units_not_mgMOD209 points·1 year ago

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

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