anyone else notice 2.4mg kicking in around week 20
Been lurking in c/dosinglogs for about 6 months and finally have something worth posting.
Short version: week 89, 0.5mg, and titration is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 35 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 83.
best — the order this archive was captured in
The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.
the 2.4mg dose is not the target, it is just what the pen goes up to
The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.
Cosigning. The slow route gets the outcome, the fast route gets you the side effects.
Kept a public log for 16 weeks. The comments are what kept it going, honestly. Accountability from strangers works.
stalled at 0.5mg, went up, and regretted it, the stall would have broken anyway
my ApoB moved before the scale did and i nearly missed it
my ApoB moved before the scale did and i nearly missed it
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
Strongly agree. If it is not working at 12.5mg after 18 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.
the constipation passes. i promise. not medical advice.
Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule
stalled at 0.5mg, went up, and regretted it, the stall would have broken anyway
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 94 weeks to accept.
Yeah, 51 weeks on 2.5mg, same pattern, same timing.
Yeah, 51 weeks on 2.5mg, same pattern, same timing.
Adding to this: weekly dosing is doing more work than the comment implies.
Hard agree. Week 43 me needed this. Week 89 me is nodding smugly.
Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.
titration speed is food noise plus side effects, period
Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.
Is that purity or net peptide content? They are not the same number.
Tried the split-dose thing for 14 weeks. Felt slightly smoother, lost at exactly the same rate. Went back to weekly.
nope, 0.25 counts, it is just not the dose most people stay on
Strongly agree. If it is not working at 15mg after 30 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.
This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 85.
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