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c/tirzepatide·submitted 2 years ago by u/alcohol_aversion

[Meta] the tirzepatide rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining

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the tirzepatide rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it. The four-week interval in the label is a minimum. Nothing about the pharmacology requires you to step on schedule, and the trials stepped on a calendar because trials have…

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u/aksel_kjaer0 points·2 years ago

The distribution matters more than the mean. In the trial population the interquartile spread was wide enough that two honest people can have completely different runs on the same arm.

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u/titration_marshalMOD1 point·2 years ago

Trial identifiers corrected in the title. SURMOUNT and SURPASS are different programmes.

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u/alcohol_aversionOP1 point·2 years ago·edited

the appetite effect is blunter than sema, in a good way, most weeks

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u/alcohol_aversionOP1 point·2 years ago

That percentage is body weight change, not body fat. Different measurement, and the distinction gets lost every time.

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u/gustav_vermeulen1 point·2 years ago·edited

Disagree with the conversion table. There is no validated equivalence between the two molecules and posting one as though there is does real damage.

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u/yusuf_ramos1 point·2 years ago

zepbound and mounjaro are the same compound with different labels

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u/laila_yilmaz1 point·2 years ago

2.5 is the starter dose and it is not meant to be the dose that works

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u/alcohol_aversionOP1 point·2 years ago

What step are you on and how long have you been there?

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u/curious_panel_only1 point·2 years ago

Came off sema and onto tirz with a two-week gap. The first month was flat and I assumed I had made a mistake. Month two it moved.

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Tirzepatide-specific discussion: the dual-agonist pharmacology, the 2.5 → 15mg ladder, the appetite profile people describe as different from semaglutide, and the SURMOUNT/SURPASS trial programme. Comparisons with semaglutide are welcome as long as they are specific about dose equivalence being unknown.

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