my ferritin moved and I cannot work out whether T2D is why
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles.
The claim: CGM matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 5 months without either producing anything.
What would actually settle it is 31 people measuring the same thing the same way. I have started; my numbers are below. They lean one way but not strongly enough for me to declare victory.
If you have data, post the data. If you have an opinion, flair it as an opinion.
best — the order this archive was captured in
My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.
Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.
Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 3–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.
Yeah, glycaemic control is the original use.
I am going to push back on this slightly.
Has anyone actually got this in writing, or is it forum lore at this point?
Maintenance for 12 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.
Yeah, glycaemic control is the original use.
type 2 is the indication, weight loss is the side effect
No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.
CGM traces tell a story, numbers alone do not
CGM traces tell a story, numbers alone do not
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 49 weeks to accept.
The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.
the 47 A1c trend is the answer
Second this question. I have wondered about T2D for 10 months and never seen a straight answer.
post A1c with units and assay date
post A1c with units and assay date
Adding to this: A1c is doing more work than the comment implies.
That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.
metformin combo is standard
CGM traces tell a story, numbers alone do not
CGM traces tell a story, numbers alone do not
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 89 weeks to accept.
Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.
This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
Which country? Half the answers in this thread only apply in Spain.
Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.
the 34 A1c trend is the answer
type 2 is the indication, weight loss is the side effect
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