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

Ozempic is the most under-discussed thing in c/newbiequestions

Titration Receipts ×5 Cold Box ×3

Right, the weekly dosing question again, but with numbers this time.

I have 2 data points over 36 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and boring enough that nobody is going to screenshot it, which is usually a good sign.

The thing I would flag for anyone new: the effect I am describing showed up at week 59, not week 13. People give up long before the interesting part.

Interested in whether this matches other people's logs or whether I am an outlier.

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u/kenji_vasquez270 points·5 months ago·edited

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/ahmed_okafor30 points·5 months ago

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

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u/gradient_goblin25 points·5 months ago

Yeah, 38 weeks on 1.7mg, same pattern, same timing.

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u/kavya_radich12 points·5 months ago·edited

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

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u/ewan_tulloch391 points·5 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/throwaway_titrationOP137 points·5 months ago

Maintenance for 6 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/kaplan_meier_kim203 points·5 months ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 24–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/rafael_ostergaard165 points·5 months ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/throwaway_titrationOP-25 points·5 months ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/marta_trevino1 point·5 months ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 42.

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u/iman_falk78 points·5 months ago

Cosigning. The slow route gets the outcome, the fast route gets you the side effects.

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u/diego_sorensen36 points·5 months ago

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

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u/anya_salgado13 points·5 months ago

titration speed is plateau plus side effects, period

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u/oskar_ibarra94 points·5 months ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 78.

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide72 points·5 months ago

This is what I tell everyone in c/newbiequestions and they never believe me until week 78.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 29 weeks to accept.

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u/camila_sandvik57 points·5 months ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/ahmed_okafor68 points·5 months ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/nausea_notesMOD29 points·5 months 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/hugo_bergstrom17 points·5 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/ravi_bergstrom47 points·5 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with 2.4mg, not with what you concluded.

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u/slow_logbook_notes68 points·5 months ago

Disagree.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/enzo_danquah15 points·5 months ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/enzo_danquah36 points·5 months ago

Cosigning. The slow route gets the outcome, the fast route gets you the side effects.

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u/rohan_steiner29 points·5 months ago·edited

Not to be pedantic but food noise and weekly dosing are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/hassan_ostergaard23 points·5 months ago

Not to be pedantic but food noise and weekly dosing are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/prior_auth_painappeals7 points·5 months ago

okay but what dose of sema are you on

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u/slow_logbook_notes24 points·5 months ago
the Medutest number or it did not happen
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u/teodor_duarte9 points·5 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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