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c/semaglutide·posted 11 months ago by u/hassan_castellanos

[Meta] proposal — a flair for 2.4mg posts

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Been lurking in c/dosinglogs for about 17 months and finally have something worth posting.

Short version: week 90, 15mg, and titration is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 17 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 84.

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u/enzo_danquah215 points·11 months ago

the injection-site soreness passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/endpoint_creep49 points·11 months ago

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

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u/hassan_castellanosOP18 points·11 months ago

Stalled at 2.5mg, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 60. Very nearly went up. Glad I did not.

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u/katrin_diallo13 points·11 months ago

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

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u/alcohol_aversion127 points·11 months ago

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Disagree on that part. 99.2% and 98.1% on the same vial is normal.

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u/slow_logbook_notes194 points·11 months ago
good post. terrible flair.
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u/leila_silva90 points·11 months ago·edited

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

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u/oskar_ibarra-11 points·11 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/kenji_vasquez44 points·11 months ago

good post.

Disagree on that part. 98.3% and 98.4% on the same vial is normal.

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u/leila_vasquez0 points·11 months ago

stalled at 10mg, went up, and regretted it, the stall would have broken anyway

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u/units_not_mgMOD138 points·11 months ago

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

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u/throwaway_titration150 points·11 months ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/leila_silva69 points·11 months ago

Did anything else change in the same window? Sleep, protein, steps, anything?

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u/niels_lindqvist43 points·11 months ago

Hard agree. Week 46 me needed this. Week 95 me is nodding smugly.

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u/hassan_castellanos63 points·11 months ago

Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule

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u/bilal_osei36 points·11 months ago

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

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u/nausea_notesside effects9 points·11 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/greta_perrin6 points·11 months ago

the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.

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u/dead_space_doug3 points·11 months ago

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

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u/slow_logbook_notes63 points·11 months ago

Hard agree.

Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 97.4% on the same vial is normal.

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u/careful_gradient_again50 points·11 months ago

Week 79 for me and the honest summary is: 9kg down, sulphur burps manageable, and the quiet happened around week 12.

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u/bilal_osei0 points·11 months ago

the constipation passes. i promise. not medical advice.

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u/test_it_yourselfvetting72 points·11 months ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 23–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/osman_ferrari47 points·11 months ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 23–5.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 80 weeks to accept.

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u/hassan_castellanosOP54 points·11 months ago

Week 86 for me and the honest summary is: 47kg down, the food-noise thing manageable, and the quiet happened around week 10.

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u/boots_or_bust19 points·11 months ago

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

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math0 points·11 months ago

Stalled at 0.5mg, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 29. Very nearly went up. Glad I did not.

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u/ismael_chukwu1 point·11 months ago

Stalled at 0.5mg, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 29.

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

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