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c/semaglutide·posted 2 years ago by u/two_mil_or_one

[Lab] 7th independent test on SSA — 98.9% on a claimed 98.0%, and the trend is the interesting part

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Numbers in the title, numbers in the post. 7th independent test on SSA — 98.9% on a claimed 98.0%, and the trend is the interesting part.

Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: 98.9% and 98.0%.

My stall was eleven weeks. Eleven. Then it moved again without me changing anything at all.

Sat at 2.4mg for four months because it was doing the job. Everyone told me to go up. The one time I did, the only thing that changed was the sulphur burps.

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

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u/camila_mensa1.4k points·2 years ago

The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve rather than a series of spikes. That is also why moving your day slightly does very little.

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u/two_mil_or_oneOP0 points·2 years ago

Does reflux track the day after the shot, or is it there all week?

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u/two_mil_or_oneOP1 point·2 years ago·edited

Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.

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u/tomas_kimani1 point·2 years ago

Minor fix — the half-life is about a week, not about a day. The rest of your point stands.

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u/rohan_steiner648 points·2 years ago

The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve rather than a series of spikes.

Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost. Judge a step at a month, not at a weekend.

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u/rasmus_kimani181 points·2 years ago

Correct, and worth adding: the trial average is an average. Half the people in it did worse than 15% and were still on the drug.

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u/ines_castellanos0 points·2 years ago

Correct, and worth adding: the trial average is an average.

Disagree with this specific line. A pause at 2.4mg is not evidence that 2.4mg has stopped working.

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u/two_mil_or_oneOP97 points·2 years ago

Week 59: 25kg down, constipation basically gone since about week 9, and the honest headline is that nothing dramatic happened. It was boring and it worked.

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u/niels_lindqvist23 points·2 years ago

Yes — and the honest version is that most of the "it stopped working" posts turn out to be a normal fortnight of water weight.

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics1.1k points·2 years ago

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.

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u/vikram_mbeki571 points·2 years ago

the scale is the least sensitive instrument you own

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u/leila_vasquez731 points·2 years ago

Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts.

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u/teodor_duarte0 points·2 years ago

Careful. A four-week stall is inside normal variation and treating it as failure is how people escalate for no reason.

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u/throwaway_titration376 points·2 years ago

nausea made the first fortnight rough at each step up, then flattened out. Predictable enough that I started planning around it.

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u/sorted_by_new258 points·2 years ago

Dropped my injection day by two days once because of travel. Nothing happened. The panic was worse than the effect.

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u/nadia_bakker77 points·2 years ago

staying at 0.5mg for an extra month is a legitimate plan

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