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c/sideeffects·posted 1 year ago by u/gentle_correction

heart rate — 6 things I got wrong before I got it right

Management Well Actually ×4 Slow Clap ×2 Cold Box ×3

Week 88 update. 4kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 45.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/brigade_detector995 points·1 year ago

sulphur burps are disgusting but not dangerous, 14 weeks and they stopped

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u/long_post_larry671 points·1 year ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/gentle_correctionOPnice about it282 points·1 year ago

nausea on day 2 is normal, nausea after week 38 is worth checking

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u/laila_delgado376 points·1 year ago

severe abdominal pain is an urgent-care question, not a forum question

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u/halima_mbeki178 points·1 year ago·edited

Same experience. Week 7 and it simply stopped. I know that is not useful information but it is what happened.

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u/ahmed_rasmussen120 points·1 year ago

the food-noise thing stops around week 85 for most people

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u/diego_sorensen89 points·1 year ago

sulphur burps are disgusting but not dangerous, 14 weeks and they stopped

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u/cesar_oyelaran216 points·1 year ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/ayesha_radich328 points·1 year ago

The the food-noise thing was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. Week 40 me did not think I would make it to week 86.

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u/gentle_correctionMOD140 points·1 year ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/rohan_steiner214 points·1 year ago

The sulphur burps passes. I kept a log and the timeline was the only useful thing. 11 weeks and it was basically gone.

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u/graph_it_gary175 points·1 year 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/gentle_correctionOPnice about it72 points·1 year ago

Went to A&E convinced it was pancreatitis. Lipase normal. It was gallstones. Get checked, do not post and wait.

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u/cormac_danquah53 points·1 year ago

The reflux was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. Week 6 me did not think I would make it to week 9.

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u/long_post_larry77 points·1 year ago

severe abdominal pain is an urgent-care question, not a forum question

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u/brigade_detector33 points·1 year ago

Same experience. Week 61 and it simply stopped. I know that is not useful information but it is what happened.

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u/priya_weiss26 points·1 year ago

nausea on day 2 is normal, nausea after week 92 is worth checking

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u/gentle_correctionOPnice about it25 points·1 year ago

The fatigue was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. Week 4 me did not think I would make it to week 47.

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u/idris_iyer104 points·1 year ago

Are you on a pen or research vial? The formulation changes the profile.

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u/slow_logbook_ftw68 points·1 year ago

ask your actual doctor, not us

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u/line_petrov21 points·1 year ago

ask your actual doctor, not us

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/rekha_mbeki119 points·1 year ago

Crossposting this to c/t2dglp1 because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/sena_teixeira166 points·1 year ago

Crossposting this to c/t2dglp1 because the people who need it are not reading this community.

Disagree on that part. 95.1% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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