constipation: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1
constipation: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1. Same spreadsheet I have been keeping since the start, nothing retrofitted.
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 62 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
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.
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
Left up. It is a description of one person’s week and it is flagged as such.
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.
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.
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.
How long has it been going on for now?
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.
Not convinced by that mechanism. Slowed gastric emptying explains fullness and reflux; it does not explain what you are describing.
sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous
sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous
Disagreeing with this one line: that symptom is not on the wait-and-see list and should not be posted as though it is.
That reads like advice, and none of us can give it. Describe what you did, not what somebody else should do.
Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.
hair shedding follows the weight loss, not the drug, and it stops
That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.
reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed
eating slower does more than most of the supplements people recommend
Nobody warned me about sulphur burps and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
Mine settled at week 56 and has not come back since, across two more steps.
Disagree. Severe abdominal pain is not on the list of things to wait out, and this board should not be treating it as one.
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
reflux on day two and gone by day four is the standard shape
write down when it starts and stops, the pattern is the useful part
fibre and water before you buy anything to fix it
the food noise going quiet is the effect people came for, and sulphur burps are the toll for the first fortnight
fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
smaller meals, earlier, is the boring advice that works
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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