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c/sideeffects·posted 5 months ago by u/baseline_drifter

what would you tell week-1 you about heart rate

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Trying to get a straight answer on this: what would you tell week-1 you about heart rate.

Mine settled at week 74 and has not come back since, across two more steps.

Nobody warned me about constipation and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.

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.

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

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u/step_therapy_s124 points·5 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/quiet_moderatorMOD72 points·5 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/sofia_wikstrom15 points·5 months ago

the food noise going quiet is the effect people came for, and early fullness is the toll for the first fortnight

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u/baseline_drifterOPanalytical11 points·5 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/priya_weiss82 points·5 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/food_noise_gonemaintenance86 points·5 months ago

What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?

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u/signe_villalobos22 points·5 months ago

How long after a step up did this start?

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u/sofia_wikstrom15 points·5 months ago

Yes. Holding the dose is a real option and it does not mean you have failed at anything.

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u/enzo_danquah59 points·5 months ago

Held the dose for an extra six weeks instead of stepping. The injection-site soreness settled and I lost the same amount anyway.

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u/priya_weiss39 points·5 months ago

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

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u/marta_marchand12 points·5 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/zeynep_ndiaye8 points·5 months ago

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

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u/emil_barros85 points·5 months ago

Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.

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u/rina_bergstrom37 points·5 months ago

Pushback: you changed the dose, the meal timing and the training in the same fortnight, so the attribution is guesswork.

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u/iman_castellanos-4 points·5 months ago

Are you eating in the couple of hours before you sleep?

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u/idris_iyer1 point·5 months ago

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

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u/yannick_barros1 point·5 months ago

Not convinced by that mechanism. Slowed gastric emptying explains fullness and reflux; it does not explain what you are describing.

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u/baseline_drifterOPanalytical1 point·5 months ago

the constipation that arrives at week 68 out of nowhere is usually something else

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u/aleksi_lehtinen1 point·5 months ago

nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose

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u/rania_marchand-6 points·5 months ago

the first fortnight after a step is the worst of it, then it settles

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u/ferran_krastev1 point·5 months ago

holding a dose an extra month is a legitimate answer to bad tolerance

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u/baseline_drifterOPanalytical1 point·5 months ago

holding a dose an extra month is a legitimate answer to bad tolerance

Agreed, with the caveat that "usually settles" is not "always settles" and the exceptions should still get asked about properly.

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u/cormac_danquah1 point·5 months ago

Disagree. Severe abdominal pain is not on the list of things to wait out, and this board should not be treating it as one.

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance1 point·5 months ago

How long has it been going on for now?

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u/slow_logbook_ftw1 point·5 months ago

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.

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u/sanne_laurent1 point·5 months ago

if it is severe or persistent that is a clinician question, not a board question

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