titration: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1
titration: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1. This is a description of what happened to me and not a plan for anybody else. What I would tell week-one me, in order of how much time it would have saved. One: the first month is a tolerance check. You are finding out whether you can take this, not how…
the ladder exists because the gut needs the time, not because the pharmacy likes paperwork
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.
Strongly agree on protein. It did more for my injection-site soreness than any of the things I bought to fix my injection-site soreness.
Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.
protein first, then everything else gets easier
nausea that arrives on day two and fades by day four is the standard shape
What dose and how many weeks at it before this started?
the appetite signal and the scale move on different clocks
do not chase somebody else’s titration schedule, they are not you
I would push back gently. Going up because the scale paused is the single most common mistake described on this board.
That figure is the 68-week trial mean, not a weekly rate. Dividing it by the weeks gives you a number that does not mean anything.
STEP-1 averaged just under 15% at 68 weeks, so a 10% year is not a failure