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c/newbiequestions·posted 1 year ago by u/greta_perrin

5 months in and normal is still the thing I get wrong

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5 months in and normal is still the thing I get wrong, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair.

5 months. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour.

Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters. Do not do that; they are not the middle of the distribution.

My first question here was genuinely basic and it now shows up in search for other people asking it.

Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.

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u/arne_restrepo1.1k points·1 year ago

Nothing on this board is medical advice, and the people answering you — including me — are members with spreadsheets rather than clinicians.

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u/micro_bump_mick366 points·1 year ago

This. Ask the basic question; the answers are what make the board searchable for the next person.

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u/sulphur_burps_sue113 points·1 year ago·edited

This.

Slight disagreement with this bit only, because a beginner reading it might take it as a plan rather than a description.

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance290 points·1 year ago

Gently disagree with the framing — nothing has gone wrong. Week 10 looking flat is the ordinary experience.

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u/rekha_teixeira0 points·1 year ago

Push back on the advice above: nobody here can tell a member what dose to take, however confidently it is phrased.

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u/rekha_teixeira1 point·1 year ago

research-use-only material is not approved for human use, and that belongs in every beginner thread

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u/elin_trevino1 point·1 year ago

Yes. The starting dose is a tolerance step. It is not supposed to do very much.

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u/trialwatch_theotrial nerd1 point·1 year ago

ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it

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u/renzo_yildiz1 point·1 year ago

Cosigning the wiki point, and also: ask anyway. The wiki cannot tell you it understood your question.

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