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

small win: food noise stopped being a problem at week 31

PSA Cold Box ×7 Well Actually ×2 Receipts ×1

Week 28 update. 4kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 80.

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/quiet_moderatorMOD588 points·1 year ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/greta_lokkenOP353 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 99.1, not 98.9. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/katrin_diallo-35 points·1 year ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/rasmus_kimani288 points·1 year ago

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

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u/joaquin_stanescu227 points·1 year ago·edited

Did you time the injection consistently each week or was it more ad hoc?

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u/hassan_ostergaard114 points·1 year ago

week 93 on the pen, 14kg down, this is the answer

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u/kenji_demir310 points·1 year ago

week 87 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics189 points·1 year ago

Yeah, 4 weeks on 0.25mg, same pattern, same timing.

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u/zeynep_zielinski0 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/vikram_ferreira1 point·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 11 weeks, not 4. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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