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c/tirzepatide·posted 2 years ago by u/tarek_kirchner

small win: GIP stopped being a problem at week 81

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Week 24 update. 25kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 76.

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 reflux.

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/elin_ferrari676 points·2 years ago
that is the funniest sentence i have read on this site
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u/customs_seizure_sid-17 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Tirz is better than sema is not a claim without a comparator dose.

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u/mikkel_ogunleye1 point·2 years ago

Cosigning. The GIP contribution is real and the side effects are not simply scaled versions.

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u/nabila_ogunleye409 points·2 years ago

that is the funniest sentence i have read on this site

Adding to this: Mounjaro is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/dario_stanescu339 points·2 years ago·edited

Zepbound and Mounjaro are literally the same drug, the name is the only difference

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u/ahmed_fonseca104 points·2 years ago·edited

Strongly agree. Tirz is better than sema is not a claim without a comparator dose.

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u/b12_baseline71 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree.

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

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u/ahmed_fonseca18 points·2 years ago

do not crack the pen, we have been over this

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u/tarek_kirchnerOP185 points·2 years ago

Zepbound and Mounjaro are literally the same drug, the name is the only difference

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

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u/tarek_kirchnerOP115 points·2 years ago

dual agonism is GIP, do not generalise from semaglutide

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u/nz_unfunded464 points·2 years ago
this is why i still read c/glp1women
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u/hub_opssite staff327 points·2 years ago

My triglycerides moved faster on tirz than on sema at the same timepoint, which matches what people report.

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u/zeynep_ndiaye272 points·2 years ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide200 points·2 years ago

the dual agonism hits different and that is why people describe it differently

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u/slow_logbook_ftw77 points·2 years ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/taper_off_tabitha218 points·2 years ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/teodor_szabo64 points·2 years ago·edited

the 15mg is the top of the pen, not the required dose

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u/ghrp_history16 points·2 years ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp8 points·2 years ago

the appetite change on tirz is more than just reduced hunger, it is different machinery

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u/kian_ekstrom150 points·2 years ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/samir_falk97 points·2 years ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/swirl_dont_shakereconstitution78 points·2 years ago·edited

the 15mg is the top of the pen, not the required dose

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