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c/glp1women·posted 19 days ago by u/bastian_aalto

[Question] hair shedding — is it the drug or the deficit

Question Cold Box ×4

The title is the whole question — hair shedding — is it the drug or the deficit — but here is why I am asking.

Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.

Telogen shedding follows a period of significant weight change rather than a specific compound, and it resolves.

Trial populations for the major programmes were not designed around the questions this board asks most often, which is why the evidence base here is genuinely thinner rather than merely harder to find.

Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.

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u/milan_wikstrom50 points·18 days ago

Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and gastric emptying are legitimate pharmacology questions with product-specific answers. A pharmacist can answer them properly; a board cannot.

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u/sterile_field_steph11 points·17 days ago

Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and gastric emptying are legitimate pharmacology questions with product-specific answers.

This is the practical fix for half the confusing weeks on this board — annotate the cycle.

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u/emil_marchand43 points·18 days ago

Fertility can change with weight loss and improved insulin sensitivity. That is a well-described phenomenon and worth knowing about in advance rather than discovering.

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u/jonas_cardoso15 points·18 days ago

ask a clinician about anything involving pregnancy, without exception

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[deleted]10 points·18 days ago

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u/dose_creep_dan4 points·18 days ago

The same dose genuinely feels different at different points in the month for me. Took a year to notice and it was in the log the whole time.

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u/rina_sobczak14 points·18 days ago

Yes — hair shedding tracks the rate of loss and it is temporary. That reassurance is worth repeating.

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u/blunt_coldbox_notes38 points·18 days ago

the research gap is real and it is not your imagination

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u/emeka_chowdhury45 points·18 days ago

Have you asked a pharmacist about the absorption question specifically?

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u/niels_roos0 points·17 days ago

That trial did not enrol the population you are asking about, so it cannot answer this.

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