the reflux question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
Thinking out loud about this: the reflux question that gets asked weekly, answered properly.
The fatigue turned out to be that I was eating about a third of what I thought I was. Tracked it for a week and the mystery evaporated.
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
Held the dose for an extra six weeks instead of stepping. The muscle cramps settled and I lost the same amount anyway.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
A symptom that begins the day after the shot and fades by day four tracks the exposure curve. One that appears at random in week 94 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
the reflux that arrives at week 57 out of nowhere is usually something else
the food noise going quiet is the effect people came for, and sulphur burps are the toll for the first fortnight
sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.
Bought four different things to fix my sulphur burps. What actually worked was eating half as fast.
Left up. It is a description of one person’s week and it is flagged as such.
if it is severe or persistent that is a clinician question, not a board question
if it is severe or persistent that is a clinician question, not a board question
hassan_ostergaard is right about the timing. The day-of-week pattern is the diagnostic bit, not the severity.
holding a dose an extra month is a legitimate answer to bad tolerance
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.
Right, and the hair thing is worth repeating: it tracks the rate of loss rather than the compound, and it stops.
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
hair shedding follows the weight loss, not the drug, and it stops
Right, and the hair thing is worth repeating: it tracks the rate of loss rather than the compound, and it stops.
This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.
reflux for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.