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c/semaglutide·posted 5 months ago by u/hassan_castellanos

someone explain semaglutide to me like I have not read a paper in years

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semaglutide. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/researchpeptides is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort semaglutide out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 2 months. My ApoB was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/katrin_diallo2 points·5 months ago

My early fullness was worst at 1.0mg and better at 0.5mg, which makes no sense and I have stopped trying to explain it.

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u/b12_baseline2 points·4 months ago

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/lane_map_larrylogistics2 points·5 months ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/katrin_diallo1 point·4 months ago

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

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u/ffmi_watcher1 point·4 months ago

Strongly agree. If it is not working at 1.7mg after 69 weeks, going up is not automatically the answer.

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u/elodie_grimaldi1 point·4 months ago·edited

week 17 on the pen, 45kg down, this is the answer

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