why does nobody talk about 2.4mg
why does nobody talk about 2.4mg. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.
The relevant figures are 2.4mg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
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 much you will lose. Two: write down the dose, the day and the waist measurement. Three: a stall of under six weeks is weather, not climate. Four: reflux that arrives the day after the shot and fades by day four is the ordinary pattern and it usually settles at a stable dose.
None of that is advice about what you should do. It is the shape of the thing, which nobody explained to me and which the wiki explains better than I just did.
Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
STEP-1 ran 68 weeks and landed just under 15% mean body weight change on 2.4mg. It is an average of a wide distribution, not a target you have missed.
Not convinced. You changed the dose and the week at the same time, so you cannot attribute the change to either.
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.
the ladder exists because the gut needs the time, not because the pharmacy likes paperwork
Dropped my injection day by two days once because of travel. Nothing happened. The panic was worse than the effect.
Steady state after a dose change takes four to five half-lives, so the fair judgement point on a new step is about a month, not four days.
I would push back gently. Going up because the scale paused is the single most common mistake described on this board.
Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.
constipation made the first fortnight rough at each step up, then flattened out. Predictable enough that I started planning around it.
Standard reminder: no personal titration plans for other members, and no medical advice. Everything else is fine.
stalling at 1.7mg is information, not a verdict