weekly dosing is the most under-discussed thing in c/labresults
Confession thread, sort of.
I went from 0.25mg to 10mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 16 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 muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.
Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 81 reads it before doing the same thing.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Did anything else change in the same window? Sleep, protein, steps, anything?
pens are overpriced, research vials are research grade, same molecule different price
Did anything else change in the same window?
Adding to this: Ozempic is doing more work than the comment implies.
I am going to push back on this slightly.
Right, and the corollary is that stopping escalation does not reset your tolerance, it just pauses the clock.
This matches my experience almost exactly on the Ozempic pens. The titration is the whole point.
Right, and the corollary is that stopping escalation does not reset your tolerance, it just pauses the clock.
Sweden here. Waited 4 months on an NHS list, gave up, went private, and the cost was half what I expected but the admin was worse.
You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.
Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.
titration speed is weekly dosing plus side effects, period
my ALT moved before the scale did and i nearly missed it
week 89 on the pen, 25kg down, this is the answer
You have restated the marketing copy.
Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 97.6% on the same vial is normal.
Small correction: the trial was 2 weeks, not 20. Does not change your point but people will quote it.
Lost 22kg and gained a genuinely irritating amount of interest in analytical chemistry. This site did that to me.
This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
okay but what dose of sema are you on
Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.
Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule
nope, 0.25 counts, it is just not the dose most people stay on
okay but what dose of sema are you on
okay but what dose of sema are you on
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule
Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.
pens are overpriced, research vials are research grade, same molecule different price
Sceptical.
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule
nope, 0.25 counts, it is just not the dose most people stay on
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