appetite came back at week 30 and i panicked for no reason
Reporting in. appetite came back at week 30 and i panicked for no reason.
STEP-1 ran 68 weeks and landed just under 15% mean body weight change on 2.4mg. It is an average of a wide distribution, not a target you have missed.
The escalation schedule in the trials existed to keep people on the drug. It is a tolerability ramp, and it is why the label reads the way it does.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
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Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts.
Delayed gastric emptying is most pronounced early and attenuates with continued dosing, which is why the reflux usually fades at a stable dose.
I would push back gently. Going up because the scale paused is the single most common mistake described on this board.
My stall was eleven weeks. Eleven. Then it moved again without me changing anything at all.
That figure is the 68-week trial mean, not a weekly rate. Dividing it by the weeks gives you a number that does not mean anything.