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c/semaglutide·posted 19 days ago by u/prior_auth_pain

[Titration] stayed at 0.5 for eleven weeks and it was the right call

Titration

Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 15mg, week 92, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — Ozempic — and tracked it for 3 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/oskar_ibarra54 points·19 days ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 7–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/elodie_grimaldi35 points·18 days ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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[deleted]26 points·18 days ago

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u/prior_auth_painOPappeals30 points·18 days ago

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

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u/prior_auth_painOPappeals34 points·18 days ago

Small correction: the trial was 8 weeks, not 27. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/anya_salgado50 points·18 days ago

Yeah, 37 weeks on 1.7mg, same pattern, same timing.

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u/rafael_ostergaard39 points·18 days ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 3.

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u/kaplan_meier_kim0 points·18 days ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 14–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/yara_boateng0 points·18 days ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 14–5.

Adding to this: weekly dosing is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/aleksi_grimaldi1 point·17 days ago

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

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u/archived_thread_a1 point·17 days ago

Strongly agree. If it is not working at 1.0mg after 13 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.

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u/prior_auth_painOPappeals1 point·18 days ago

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

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u/joaquin_stanescu18 points·17 days 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/nausea_notesMOD7 points·17 days ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/niels_lindqvist4 points·17 days ago

Hard agree. Week 67 me needed this. Week 21 me is nodding smugly.

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u/stubborn_batchlist_only-30 points·17 days ago

week 73 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/iman_castellanos13 points·19 days ago

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

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u/customs_seizure_sid9 points·18 days ago

What colour is the pen? Wegovy and Ozempic use different formulations.

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