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c/semaglutide·posted 2 years ago by u/sorted_by_new

[Question] weekly dosing — what am I missing here

Question Receipts ×2 Slow Clap ×3 Cold Box ×1

Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on Ozempic in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/dead_space_doug1.4k points·2 years ago

titration speed is weekly dosing plus side effects, period

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u/oskar_kaufmann-30 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. If it is not working at 10mg after 56 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.

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u/diego_sorensen816 points·2 years ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/yara_boateng336 points·2 years ago

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

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u/sorted_by_newOP253 points·2 years ago

Lost 41kg and gained a genuinely irritating amount of interest in analytical chemistry. This site did that to me.

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u/source_or_silence83 points·2 years ago

Are you on a pen or research vial? Because the trajectory is different.

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u/sorted_by_newOP35 points·2 years ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/aleksi_grimaldi154 points·2 years ago

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

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u/anya_antonsen119 points·2 years ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/meta_analysis_mo30 points·2 years ago

week 6 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/iman_falk206 points·2 years ago

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

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