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c/sideeffects·posted 3 months ago by u/elin_trevino

[Question] how do you actually verify gallbladder

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how do you actually verify gallbladder. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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.

A symptom that begins the day after the shot and fades by day four tracks the exposure curve. One that appears at random in week 26 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.

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.

Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.

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u/mass_spec_maggieMS498 points·3 months ago

Keeping a log, and what to put in it.

One line a day: dose, day since injection, what the symptom was and how bad out of five, and roughly what you ate. Two months of that fits on one page and the pattern is obvious on paper in a way it never is in your head.

Mine showed a clean day-two-to-day-four window I had been describing as "random". Once you can see the pattern you can plan around it, and planning around it is most of the relief.

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u/aa_analysis_andy347 points·3 months ago

Cosigning the fibre and water answer. Unglamorous, free, and it fixed it for me inside a week.

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u/elin_trevinoOP218 points·3 months ago

Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.

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u/britt_abubakar223 points·3 months ago

How long after a step up did this start?

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u/zeynep_ndiaye77 points·3 months ago

How long after a step up did this start?

Disagreeing with this one line: that symptom is not on the wait-and-see list and should not be posted as though it is.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial55 points·3 months ago

the early fullness that arrives at week 44 out of nowhere is usually something else

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u/ferritin_low34 points·3 months ago

eating slower does more than most of the supplements people recommend

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u/ferran_krastev11 points·3 months ago

How long has it been going on for now?

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u/ferran_krastev-22 points·3 months ago

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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u/janoshik_junkieindependent tester150 points·3 months ago

Agreed on writing it down. I could not see the pattern until I had six weeks of it on one page.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian117 points·3 months ago

That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.

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u/elin_trevinoOP89 points·3 months ago

reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed

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u/line_petrov57 points·3 months ago

Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my early fullness than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.

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u/elin_trevinoOP81 points·3 months ago

Which day of the week relative to the shot does it hit?

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u/marta_marchand44 points·3 months ago

Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.

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u/neha_rahimi26 points·3 months ago

Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.

marta_marchand is right about the timing. The day-of-week pattern is the diagnostic bit, not the severity.

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u/line_petrov12 points·3 months ago·edited

marta_marchand is right about the timing.

Adding to this — holding the dose rather than stepping is the option people forget they have.

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u/lina_dziedzic104 points·3 months ago

I would be careful here. "Everyone gets this" is not true, and it makes the people who get something unusual assume they are fine when they should be asking.

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u/gentle_correctionMOD41 points·3 months ago

Removed the specific recommendation. Describe your own experience here; do not tell another member what to take or what dose to be on.

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u/marit_coelho87 points·3 months ago

smaller meals, earlier, is the boring advice that works

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u/adaeze_brandt37 points·3 months ago

Right, and the hair thing is worth repeating: it tracks the rate of loss rather than the compound, and it stops.

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u/elin_lindqvist37 points·3 months ago

fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake

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u/saskia_lokken72 points·3 months ago

The effect on gastric emptying is most pronounced early and attenuates with continued dosing, which is the mechanism behind the "it settles at a stable dose" pattern the whole board reports.

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u/milan_villalobos33 points·3 months ago

Same pattern here. It settled at a stable dose without me doing anything clever.

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u/aleksi_lehtinen33 points·3 months ago

This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.

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u/iman_castellanos9 points·3 months ago

a rough fortnight at each step is normal, a rough three months is not

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