Ozempic: what the trials say vs what this community says
Something I keep coming back to: Ozempic: what the trials say vs what this community says. The escalation schedule in the trials existed to keep people on the drug. It is a tolerability ramp, and it is why the label reads the way it does. STEP-1 ran 68 weeks and landed just under 15% mean body weight change on 2.4mg.…
Does fatigue track the day after the shot, or is it there all week?
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This matches me almost exactly, right down to the fatigue showing up on the second day and being gone by the fourth.
Dropped my injection day by two days once because of travel. Nothing happened. The panic was worse than the effect.
Are you measuring anything other than weight? Waist is usually the one that keeps moving.
Correct, and worth adding: the trial average is an average. Half the people in it did worse than 15% and were still on the drug.
What did week 58 look like compared with this one? The month either side is the useful comparison.
Cosigning. The appetite change and the scale change ran about three weeks apart for me too.
staying at 1.0mg for an extra month is a legitimate plan