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

anyone else notice 2.4mg kicking in around week 20

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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.

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u/enzo_danquah488 points·1 year ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/slow_logbook_notes279 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_erdogan-33 points·1 year ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/dead_space_doug1 point·1 year ago

Cosigning. The slow route gets the outcome, the fast route gets you the side effects.

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u/diego_sorensen1 point·1 year ago

Kept a public log for 16 weeks. The comments are what kept it going, honestly. Accountability from strangers works.

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u/micro_bump_mick180 points·1 year ago

stalled at 0.5mg, went up, and regretted it, the stall would have broken anyway

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u/ravi_sandvik99 points·1 year ago

my ApoB moved before the scale did and i nearly missed it

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u/aleksi_grimaldiOP54 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math23 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. If it is not working at 12.5mg after 18 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.

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u/ines_castellanos24 points·1 year ago

the constipation passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/marta_trevino6 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/aleksi_grimaldiOP214 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/bilal_osei141 points·1 year ago

Yeah, 51 weeks on 2.5mg, same pattern, same timing.

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u/aleksi_grimaldi34 points·1 year ago

Yeah, 51 weeks on 2.5mg, same pattern, same timing.

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

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u/quiet_moderatormod0 points·1 year ago

Hard agree. Week 43 me needed this. Week 89 me is nodding smugly.

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u/nausea_notesMOD99 points·1 year ago

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

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u/osman_ferrari80 points·1 year ago·edited

titration speed is food noise plus side effects, period

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u/enzo_danquah42 points·1 year ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/vikram_ferreira65 points·1 year ago

Is that purity or net peptide content? They are not the same number.

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u/aleksi_grimaldiOP36 points·1 year ago

Tried the split-dose thing for 14 weeks. Felt slightly smoother, lost at exactly the same rate. Went back to weekly.

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u/ewan_tulloch21 points·1 year ago

nope, 0.25 counts, it is just not the dose most people stay on

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u/micro_bump_mick7 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. If it is not working at 15mg after 30 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.

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u/anya_erdogan10 points·1 year ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 85.

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