titration is the most under-discussed thing on this board
titration is the most under-discussed thing on this board. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. 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. Steady state after a dose change takes…
the appetite signal and the scale move on different clocks
Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts.
Are you measuring anything other than weight? Waist is usually the one that keeps moving.
the ladder exists because the gut needs the time, not because the pharmacy likes paperwork
2.4 is a ceiling, not a target
the scale is the least sensitive instrument you own
nausea that arrives on day two and fades by day four is the standard shape
Sceptical of the mechanism you are proposing. Gastric emptying slows, it does not stop, and the timings you describe do not follow from it.