is it normal to get reflux at week 5
Six-word version is the title — is it normal to get reflux at week 5 — and the rest is context.
reflux for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.
Bought four different things to fix my sulphur burps. What actually worked was eating half as fast.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Left up. It is a description of one person’s week and it is flagged as such.
fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake
fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake
aleksi_lehtinen is right about the timing. The day-of-week pattern is the diagnostic bit, not the severity.
Same pattern here. It settled at a stable dose without me doing anything clever.
fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake
Adding to this — holding the dose rather than stepping is the option people forget they have.
the fatigue that arrives at week 7 out of nowhere is usually something else
That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.
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.
if it is severe or persistent that is a clinician question, not a board question
Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.
Agreed on writing it down. I could not see the pattern until I had six weeks of it on one page.
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.
Are you eating in the couple of hours before you sleep?
Cosigning the fibre and water answer. Unglamorous, free, and it fixed it for me inside a week.
Yes — the day-two-to-day-four window is so consistent across this board that it is almost diagnostic.
This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.
Severe, or unpleasant? They are genuinely different questions and the answers diverge.
Pushback: you changed the dose, the meal timing and the training in the same fortnight, so the attribution is guesswork.
fibre and water before you buy anything to fix it
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
write down when it starts and stops, the pattern is the useful part
That reads like advice, and none of us can give it. Describe what you did, not what somebody else should do.
That reads like advice, and none of us can give it.
Disagreeing with this one line: that symptom is not on the wait-and-see list and should not be posted as though it is.
smaller meals, earlier, is the boring advice that works
reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed
reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed
Agreed, with the caveat that "usually settles" is not "always settles" and the exceptions should still get asked about properly.
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