[Results] 96 weeks, 40kg, and 2.4mg was the hard part
Six-word version is the title — 96 weeks, 40kg, and 2.4mg was the hard part — and the rest is context. The relevant figures are 96 weeks, 40kg and 2.4mg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time. Sat at 1.7mg for four months because it was doing the job. Everyone told me to go up. The one time I…
The escalation schedule in the trials existed to keep people on the drug. It is a tolerability ramp, and it is why the label reads the way it does.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use, so anything in this thread about how a compounded or research vial "should" behave is a chemistry discussion, not a dosing one.
Strongly agree on protein. It did more for my muscle cramps than any of the things I bought to fix my muscle cramps.
if 0.25mg is working there is no prize for going up
fatigue made the first fortnight rough at each step up, then flattened out. Predictable enough that I started planning around it.
First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.
Dropped my injection day by two days once because of travel. Nothing happened. The panic was worse than the effect.
the first four weeks are a tolerance check, not a weight-loss phase
2.4 is a ceiling, not a target
the food noise going quiet is the effect people actually describe