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[Meta] can we get an auto-reply for "what dose should i be on"
Week 61 update. 22kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 18. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I…
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comment on [PSA] your bac water is fine, your fridge door is not in c/reconstitution · 44 points · 2 days ago
Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.
comment on sterile water is not bacteriostatic water and it is not close in c/reconstitution · 101 points · 6 days ago
Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with units, not with what you concluded.
comment on [Question] resting heart rate up 7bpm, week 6, is that a thing in c/sideeffects · 1 points · 6 days ago
Small correction: the trial was 11 weeks, not 26. Does not change your point but people will quote it.
comment on cored the stopper on day 9. rotate your puncture site in c/reconstitution · 2 points · 8 days ago
Dead space ate 24 units on a low-volume draw. Tiny impact at 2.5mg, massive impact at 2.4mg.
comment on A1c 9.1 → 5.4 over 14 months, full table inside in c/bloodwork · 39 points · 9 days ago
HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking
comment on muscle cramps turned out to be sodium, not magnesium in c/sideeffects · 29 points · 12 days ago
ask your actual doctor, not us
comment on why does everyone say week 4 is the wall in c/semaglutide · 24 points · 12 days ago
Cosigning. The slow route gets the outcome, the fast route gets you the side effects.
comment on [Discussion] we talk about dose like it is a score and it is not in c/semaglutide · 1 points · 23 days ago
the quiet is real. the food noise just stops.
comment on [Discussion] the ferritin advice in here is 19 years out of date in c/bloodwork · 52 points · 1 months ago
Do you have baseline to compare to?
comment on [Meta] can we get an auto-reply for "what dose should i be on" in c/semaglutide · 9 points · 1 months ago
Maintenance for 7 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.
comment on [Lab] SGN reta — VendorInvestigate came back 93.7% against a claimed 94.2% in c/sideeffects · 1 points · 1 months ago
the food-noise thing stops around week 68 for most people
Disagree on that part. 98.7% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.
comment on [Lab] SGN reta — VendorInvestigate came back 93.7% against a claimed 94.2% in c/sideeffects · 120 points · 1 months ago
Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about ApoB in c/bloodwork · 22 points · 1 months ago
ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first
comment on [Meta] the hair loss rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/sideeffects · 108 points · 1 months ago
Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.
comment on week 16 check-in — 17kg down, fatigue manageable, one thing confusing me in c/semaglutide · 27 points · 2 months ago
Ozempic versus Wegovy versus research grade is the wrong argument, they are literally the same molecule
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
comment on unpopular opinion: nausea is massively overrated in c/sideeffects · 37 points · 2 months ago
the fatigue passes. i promise. not medical advice.
comment on unpopular opinion: nausea is massively overrated in c/sideeffects · 45 points · 2 months ago
Same experience. Week 80 and it simply stopped. I know that is not useful information but it is what happened.
comment on unpopular opinion: reconstitution is massively overrated in c/reconstitution · 27 points · 2 months ago
Yeah, showing the arithmetic is the fastest way for someone to spot the error.
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[Lab] 12th independent test on QSC, and the trend is the interesting part
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking 2.4mg against triglycerides for 31 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is…