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

what changed for me between week 10 and week 53

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

The advice on weekly dosing 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/hugo_bergstrom1k points·1 year ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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u/leila_vasquez351 points·1 year ago

the quiet is real.

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

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u/two_mil_or_one219 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/marta_trevino59 points·1 year ago

the early fullness passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/marit_coelho631 points·1 year ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/kenji_vasquezOP291 points·1 year ago

week 36 on the pen, 47kg down, this is the answer

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u/nadia_bakker236 points·1 year ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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u/hugo_bergstrom84 points·1 year ago

Right, and the corollary is that stopping escalation does not reset your tolerance, it just pauses the clock.

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u/runa_wikstrom475 points·1 year ago

Crossposting this to c/researchpeptides because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/kenji_vasquezOP347 points·1 year ago

Maintenance for 12 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/ffmi_watcher-18 points·1 year ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/kenji_vasquezOP-26 points·1 year ago

Tried the split-dose thing for 18 weeks. Felt slightly smoother, lost at exactly the same rate. Went back to weekly.

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u/bilal_osei288 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/hamza_weiss118 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. If it is not working at 0.25mg after 72 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.

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u/dead_space_doug124 points·1 year ago

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

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u/diego_sorensen66 points·1 year ago

My version: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part. Nobody believes that until they do it.

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u/iman_falk0 points·1 year ago

the fatigue passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/sorted_by_new0 points·1 year ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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u/gradient_goblin1 point·1 year ago

the quiet is real.

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

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u/anya_erdogan1 point·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 16 weeks, not 16. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/gustav_solberg1 point·1 year ago

the fatigue passes.

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

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u/chidi_demir1 point·1 year ago

the the food-noise thing passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/quiet_moderatorMOD36 points·1 year ago

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

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