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[Question] GIP — what am I missing here

Question Clean Column ×8 Cold Box ×1 Slow Clap ×1

Week 52 update. 13kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 9.

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/tidy_vialdrawer_pls819 points·1 year ago

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

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[deleted]588 points·1 year ago

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u/throwaway_wl2026154 points·1 year ago

week 9 on Mounjaro and the appetite profile is genuinely different from sema

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain-3 points·1 year ago

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

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u/curious_panel_only252 points·1 year ago·edited

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

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

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u/neha_falk194 points·1 year ago

SURMOUNT data is messier than STEP data but the weight loss is there

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u/ahmed_iyer43 points·1 year ago

SURMOUNT data is messier than STEP data but the weight loss is there

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

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u/ewan_marchand30 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/b12_baseline10 points·1 year ago

the GIP side does different things than the GLP-1 side, that is the point

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u/samir_falk165 points·1 year ago

do not crack the pen, we have been over this

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u/ferran_mensah404 points·1 year ago

SURMOUNT data is messier than STEP data but the weight loss is there

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u/dario_stanescu0 points·1 year ago

Hard agree. The food noise disappears differently on the two compounds.

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u/quiet_moderatorMOD397 points·1 year ago

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

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u/copay_card_cc234 points·1 year ago

week 5 on Mounjaro and the appetite profile is genuinely different from sema

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u/marit_sandvik80 points·1 year ago

Yeah, dual agonism does produce a different appetite profile than GLP-1 alone.

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u/two_mil_or_one45 points·1 year ago

Not to be pedantic but GIP and Zepbound are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/gustav_vermeulen186 points·1 year ago

This matches the trial data. SURMOUNT-1 was 96.2% body weight at 11 weeks.

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u/yusuf_ramos51 points·1 year ago

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

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u/laila_wikstrom118 points·1 year ago

SURMOUNT data is messier than STEP data but the weight loss is there

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u/georgi_chowdhury66 points·1 year ago

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

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u/sofia_nascimento31 points·1 year ago

Did you stay on semaglutide or switch? The outcome is different if you are comparing.

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u/discount_math_dm39 points·1 year ago

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

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