my ApoB moved and I cannot work out whether constipation is why
my ApoB moved and I cannot work out whether constipation is why. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
Hair shedding after significant weight loss is a telogen effect that follows the rate of loss. It is not specific to these compounds and it resolves.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Most of the common complaints trace back to slowed gastric emptying — early fullness, reflux, nausea after a large or fatty meal. That is also why meal size and speed change the experience more than anything else.
Not convinced by that mechanism. Slowed gastric emptying explains fullness and reflux; it does not explain what you are describing.
Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my reflux than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.
Yes — the day-two-to-day-four window is so consistent across this board that it is almost diagnostic.
sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous
sulphur burps for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.
nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose
Mine settled at week 59 and has not come back since, across two more steps.
fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake
smaller meals, earlier, is the boring advice that works
Pushback: you changed the dose, the meal timing and the training in the same fortnight, so the attribution is guesswork.
Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.
On buying things to fix side effects, which I did extensively and would not do again.
The interventions that changed anything for me were all behavioural and free: smaller meals, eating slower, stopping food a few hours before sleep, more fibre and considerably more water. The things I bought did nothing I could detect, and I was motivated to detect something.
The other lever, which people forget, is time at dose. Holding rather than stepping is a legitimate plan and it fixed my tolerance where nothing else did.
Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss. The honest answer there is that it needs someone who can examine you.
That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
Bought four different things to fix my nausea. What actually worked was eating half as fast.
fibre and water before you buy anything to fix it
Which day of the week relative to the shot does it hit?
The fatigue turned out to be that I was eating about a third of what I thought I was. Tracked it for a week and the mystery evaporated.
Nobody warned me about constipation and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
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