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c/tirzepatide·posted 5 months ago by u/gentle_correction

15mg: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1

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Here it is: 15mg: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly.

The relevant figures are 15mg and week 1, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.

34kg over 84 weeks, never went past 10mg, and muscle cramps stayed mild the whole way. Posting because the loud threads are all 15mg.

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.

If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.

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u/ewan_marchand8 points·5 months ago

SURMOUNT-1 ran 72 weeks with the top arm around 21% mean body weight change. SURPASS is the diabetes programme and reports glycaemic endpoints, so quoting the two interchangeably is a category error.

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u/rania_diallo7 points·5 months ago

Push back: "gentler than sema" is a population statement. Plenty of people on this board have the opposite experience and they are not doing it wrong.

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u/emil_okwuosa0 points·5 months ago

Push back: "gentler than sema" is a population statement.

Agreed, with one qualifier: that is the mean of the top arm and the spread around it was enormous.

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u/sofia_nascimento-28 points·5 months ago

Does injection-site soreness follow the day after the shot, or is it spread across the week?

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u/forest_plot_fionastats1 point·5 months ago

It is a dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist, and the GIP arm is the part that has no equivalent in the semaglutide threads. That is why the side-effect profile reads differently rather than just milder.

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u/gentle_correctionOPnice about it1 point·5 months ago

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

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u/gentle_correctionOPnice about it1 point·5 months ago

What is the waist doing? That is usually the number still moving during a scale stall.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp1 point·5 months ago

Careful with "everyone tolerates it better". The people it did not suit stop posting, which makes this board look calmer than the drug is.

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