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c/semaglutide·posted 8 months ago by u/anya_erdogan

small win: weekly dosing stopped being a problem at week 60

Titration Long Haul ×2 Slow Clap ×3 Cold Box ×1

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 2.4mg to 0.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 5 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have injection-site soreness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 3 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/pavel_nkemelu437 points·8 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/throwaway_titration338 points·8 months ago·edited

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/hassan_ostergaard260 points·8 months ago

Not convinced.

Disagree on that part. 99.2% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/helga_vermeulen0 points·8 months ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/marit_coelho1 point·8 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/oskar_kaufmann-28 points·8 months ago

titration speed is Wegovy plus side effects, period

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