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c/semaglutide·posted 2 months ago by u/source_or_silence

why does nobody talk about Ozempic

Question Clean Column ×8 Long Haul ×1

Right, the weekly dosing question again, but with numbers this time.

I have 9 data points over 8 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and boring enough that nobody is going to screenshot it, which is usually a good sign.

The thing I would flag for anyone new: the effect I am describing showed up at week 18, not week 61. People give up long before the interesting part.

Interested in whether this matches other people's logs or whether I am an outlier.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa50 points·2 months ago

Stalled at 1.7mg, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 30. Very nearly went up. Glad I did not.

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u/anya_antonsen0 points·2 months ago

I did the fast version. 2.4mg to 2.5mg in 21 weeks. Spent a weekend learning why the schedule exists.

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics35 points·2 months ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 13.

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u/titration_marshalMOD19 points·2 months ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/source_or_silenceOP10 points·2 months ago

Kept a public log for 46 weeks. The comments are what kept it going, honestly. Accountability from strangers works.

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u/diego_sorensen3 points·2 months ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/b12_baseline11 points·2 months ago

This matches my experience almost exactly on the Ozempic pens. The titration is the whole point.

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u/rania_diallo9 points·2 months ago

What was the method? "HPLC" is a technique, not a method.

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u/boots_or_bust6 points·2 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with Wegovy, not with what you concluded.

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u/source_or_silenceOP5 points·2 months ago

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

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u/rasmus_kimani17 points·2 months ago

week 91 on the pen, 12kg down, this is the answer

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u/wanjiru_varga13 points·2 months ago

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

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u/nausea_notesside effects8 points·2 months ago

Cosigning. The slow route gets the outcome, the fast route gets you the side effects.

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u/rina_bergstrom2 points·2 months ago

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

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u/zeynep_weiss10 points·2 months ago·edited

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/hugo_bergstrom10 points·2 months ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/sofia_wikstrom6 points·2 months ago

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

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u/micro_bump_mick2 points·2 months ago

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

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u/two_mil_or_one3 points·2 months ago

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

Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/enzo_danquah1 point·2 months ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 73.

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u/slow_logbook_notes1 point·2 months ago·edited

week 33 on the pen, 16kg down, this is the answer

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