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c/semaglutide·posted 1 months ago by u/iman_falk

[Meta] can we get an auto-reply for "what dose should i be on"

Meta Long Haul ×8

Week 61 update. 22kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 18.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/marit_coelho104 points·1 months ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/units_not_mgMOD63 points·1 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/rafael_ostergaard78 points·1 months ago

This matches my experience almost exactly on the Ozempic pens. The titration is the whole point.

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u/prior_auth_painappeals60 points·1 months 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/ferritin_low24 points·1 months ago

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

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u/viktor_nkemelu28 points·1 months ago·edited

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

Disagree on that part. 99.0% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/rina_bergstrom47 points·1 months ago

Did you test the vial you received or are we going off the vendor COA?

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u/meta_analysis_mo16 points·1 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 96.8, not 99.1. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/iman_falkOP9 points·1 months ago

Maintenance for 7 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/zofia_lindholm7 points·1 months ago

week 83 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/georgi_haddad5 points·1 months ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/reflux_report14 points·1 months ago·edited

Did you test the vial you received or are we going off the vendor COA?

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

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u/ffmi_watcher43 points·1 months ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide34 points·1 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/arne_amankwah23 points·1 months ago

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

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u/zofia_lindholm27 points·1 months ago

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

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u/camila_sandvik55 points·1 months ago

Did you test the vial you received or are we going off the vendor COA?

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u/adnan_karlsen14 points·1 months ago

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

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