what changed for me between month 2 and month 9
Genuine question, and the title is the question: what changed for me between month 2 and month 9.
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
The effect on gastric emptying is most pronounced early and attenuates with continued dosing, which is the mechanism behind the "it settles at a stable dose" pattern the whole board reports.
Most of the common complaints trace back to slowed gastric emptying — early fullness, reflux, nausea after a large or fatty meal. That is also why meal size and speed change the experience more than anything else.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Hair shedding after significant weight loss is a telogen effect that follows the rate of loss. It is not specific to these compounds and it resolves.
fibre and water before you buy anything to fix it
Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss. The honest answer there is that it needs someone who can examine you.
Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss.
Agreed, with the caveat that "usually settles" is not "always settles" and the exceptions should still get asked about properly.
muscle cramps on day two and gone by day four is the standard shape
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
One line a day: dose, day since injection, what the symptom was and how bad out of five, and roughly what you ate. Two months of that fits on one page and the pattern is obvious on paper in a way it never is in your head.
Mine showed a clean day-two-to-day-four window I had been describing as "random". Once you can see the pattern you can plan around it, and planning around it is most of the relief.
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
Adding to this — holding the dose rather than stepping is the option people forget they have.
Nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
Cosigning the fibre and water answer. Unglamorous, free, and it fixed it for me inside a week.
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 40 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
Removed the specific recommendation. Describe your own experience here; do not tell another member what to take or what dose to be on.
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed
This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.
This.
Disagreeing with this one line: that symptom is not on the wait-and-see list and should not be posted as though it is.
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.
The fatigue turned out to be that I was eating about a third of what I thought I was.
lina_dziedzic is right about the timing. The day-of-week pattern is the diagnostic bit, not the severity.
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
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