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

help me understand plateau, I have read the wiki twice

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Confession thread, sort of. I went from 0.5mg to 12.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 20 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have reflux I…

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u/archived_thread_a55 points·1 year ago

How long were you at 12.5mg before you moved up?

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u/hassan_ostergaard15 points·1 year ago

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

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u/kenji_vasquezOP5 points·1 year ago

Tried the split-dose thing for 20 weeks. Felt slightly smoother, lost at exactly the same rate. Went back to weekly.

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u/vikram_mbeki6 points·1 year ago

week 17 on the pen, 5kg down, this is the answer

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u/ffmi_watcher1 point·1 year ago

week 11 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/adnan_karlsen4 points·1 year ago

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

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u/kenji_demir19 points·1 year ago·edited

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/plain_titration16 points·1 year ago

stalled at 15mg, went up, and regretted it, the stall would have broken anyway

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u/joaquin_stanescu12 points·1 year ago·edited

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

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u/hassan_ostergaard9 points·1 year ago·edited

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

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u/archived_thread_a6 points·1 year ago·edited

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

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