Wegovy: what the trials say vs what this community says
Something I keep coming back to: Wegovy: what the trials say vs what this community says.
reflux made the first fortnight rough at each step up, then flattened out. Predictable enough that I started planning around it.
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: early fullness 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.
The appetite thing was the surprise. I expected to feel full. What I got was simply not thinking about food between meals.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Delayed gastric emptying is most pronounced early and attenuates with continued dosing, which is why the sulphur burps usually fades at a stable dose.
Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.
Yes. Week 71 is when almost everybody writes the "is it still working" post, and almost everybody is fine.
do not chase somebody else’s titration schedule, they are not you
Small correction: 2.4mg is the maintenance ceiling on the label, not the starting maintenance dose. The distinction matters for anyone reading this later.
What did week 31 look like compared with this one? The month either side is the useful comparison.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use, so anything in this thread about how a compounded or research vial "should" behave is a chemistry discussion, not a dosing one.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use, so anything in this thread about how a compounded or research vial "should" behave is a chem
Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost. Judge a step at a month, not at a weekend.
Leaving this up. It is a check-in, it has numbers, and it is honest about being one person.
Sceptical of the mechanism you are proposing. Gastric emptying slows, it does not stop, and the timings you describe do not follow from it.
Disagree. 2.4 is the top of the label, not the goal, and "everyone ends up there" is just survivorship in the posts you read.
First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.
Cosigning. The appetite change and the scale change ran about three weeks apart for me too.
Week 32: 7kg down, early fullness basically gone since about week 6, and the honest headline is that nothing dramatic happened. It was boring and it worked.
What dose and how many weeks at it before this started?