[Side Effects] the sulphur burps are real and they do pass
Something I keep coming back to: the sulphur burps are real and they do pass. reflux made the first fortnight rough at each step up, then flattened out. Predictable enough that I started planning around it. What I would tell week-one me, in order of how much time it would have saved. One: the first month is a…
Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.
Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.
Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost. Judge a step at a month, not at a weekend.
The appetite thing was the surprise. I expected to feel full. What I got was simply not thinking about food between meals.
Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost.
This is the part I would underline for anyone skimming. Everything else in the thread is downstream of it.
Steady state after a dose change takes four to five half-lives, so the fair judgement point on a new step is about a month, not four days.
Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost.
Disagree with this specific line. A pause at 1.0mg is not evidence that 1.0mg has stopped working.