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c/semaglutide·posted 1 year ago by u/alcohol_aversion

plateau — my 2-week log, condensed into one table

Meta Receipts ×1 Slow Clap ×2 Long Haul ×3

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

Setup: 0.5mg, week 59, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — weekly dosing — and tracked it for 8 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/nausea_notesMOD551 points·1 year ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/joaquin_stanescu430 points·1 year ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 43.

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u/rafael_ostergaard141 points·1 year ago

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

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u/slow_logbook_notes493 points·1 year ago
i do not know. that is the honest answer.
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u/gradient_goblin396 points·1 year ago

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

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u/ahmed_okafor314 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 99.1, not 99.2. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/enzo_danquah260 points·1 year ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/greta_perrin77 points·1 year ago

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

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u/kavya_radich726 points·1 year ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 86.

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u/salma_vasquez271 points·1 year ago

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

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u/alcohol_aversionOP196 points·1 year ago

week 90 and i am still not at maintenance, do not rush the ladder

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u/alcohol_aversionOP318 points·1 year ago

week 96 on the pen, 44kg down, this is the answer

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