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switched from 5mg to 2.5mg and the nausea got better, not worse
I have had 9 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe. Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied…
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[Results] 42 weeks, 35kg, and regain was the hard part
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/customs repeats that goal weight is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I…
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[Discussion] goal weight is doing more work than we give it credit for
Been lurking in c/compounding for about 18 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 81, 2.4mg, and dose stretching is the bit I still cannot…
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goal weight — 17 things I got wrong before I got it right
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of…
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why does nobody talk about goal weight
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 2.5mg to 1.0mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 2 weeks…
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[Results] 22 weeks, 45kg, and maintenance was the hard part
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/customs repeats that goal weight is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I…
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three years of dose stretching threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
Been lurking in c/compounding for about 13 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 85, 5mg, and dose stretching is the bit I still cannot…
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lowest effective dose — 4 things I got wrong before I got it right
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/trialwatch repeats that goal weight is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I…
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three years of goal weight threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/customs repeats that goal weight is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I…
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switched from 0.25mg to 1.7mg and the constipation got better, not worse
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking maintenance against ApoB for 7 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker…
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reta phase 2 was −24.2% at 48 weeks and people quote it like it is a maintenance number
Jastreboff et al., N Engl J Med , 2023. Phase 2. Forty-eight weeks. Mean change −24.2% in the highest dose arm. Every one of those qualifiers gets dropped when the…
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regain vs dose stretching — genuinely asking which matters more
Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/customs repeats that goal weight is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I…
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my ALT moved and I cannot work out whether long term is why
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of…
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my fasting insulin moved and I cannot work out whether regain is why
I have had 3 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe. Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied…
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15 months in and lowest effective dose is still the thing I get wrong
long term. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/intlshipping is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the…
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disclosure is the most under-discussed thing in c/maintenancephase
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking meta against triglycerides for 37 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is…
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maintenance — my 6-week log, condensed into one table
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking maintenance against triglycerides for 5 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation…
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[Vendor] QST order #20 — Denmark, 27 days, no drama, receipts inside
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 1.7mg to 0.25mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 14 weeks…
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[Discussion] dose stretching is doing more work than we give it credit for
Been lurking in c/retatrutide for about 8 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 72, 0.5mg, and lowest effective dose is the bit I still…
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[Long Term] found my lowest effective dose by going down, not up
Right, the lowest effective dose question again, but with numbers this time. I have 10 data points over 22 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think…
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is it normal to get nausea at week 34
Right, the lowest effective dose question again, but with numbers this time. I have 22 data points over 10 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think…
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genuine question about lowest effective dose that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of…
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switched from 0.5mg to 2.4mg and the constipation got better, not worse
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking maintenance against eGFR for 21 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker…
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stretching to 10 days instead of 7 — anyone doing this long term
Been lurking in c/retatrutide for about 5 months and finally have something worth posting. Short version: week 91, 10mg, and lowest effective dose is the bit I still…
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[Discussion] we have no vocabulary for success that is not a number going down
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 1.0mg to 15mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 8 weeks…