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c/sideeffects·posted 1 year ago by u/fatima_asante

help me understand heart rate, I have read the wiki twice

Side Effects Long Haul ×4 Slow Clap ×3 The Quiet One ×3

Trying to get a straight answer on this: help me understand heart rate, I have read the wiki twice.

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 28 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.

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

Bought four different things to fix my constipation. What actually worked was eating half as fast.

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/adaeze_batista-14 points·1 year 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/mass_spec_maggieMS349 points·1 year ago

How long has it been going on for now?

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u/karma_irrelevant288 points·1 year ago

sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous

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u/ahmed_rasmussen227 points·1 year ago

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

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u/fatima_asanteOP130 points·1 year 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/blank_injection0 points·1 year ago

That symptom is not the one being described upthread.

This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.

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u/laila_delgado262 points·1 year 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/fatima_asanteOP113 points·1 year ago

Is it every week or did it start at a particular dose?

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u/constipation_clubMOD142 points·1 year 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/aurel_mwangi190 points·1 year 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/zeynep_ndiaye149 points·1 year 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/gentle_correctionnice about it34 points·1 year ago

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

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u/blunt_coldbox_2024131 points·1 year ago·edited

reflux for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.

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u/ayesha_erdogan77 points·1 year ago

Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.

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u/fatima_asanteOP0 points·1 year ago

Correcting my own comment above: I said day three and my log says day two. Same pattern, wrong day.

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u/isabela_nilsen47 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/nausea_notesside effects37 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/ipamorelin_i9 points·1 year ago·edited

Mine settled at week 42 and has not come back since, across two more steps.

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u/iman_falk10 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/wrong_network_w3 points·1 year ago

smaller meals, earlier, is the boring advice that works

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u/zeynep_ndiaye23 points·1 year ago

Careful with the supplement recommendation. There is no evidence for it here and the mechanism you are proposing does not hold.

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u/iman_falk6 points·1 year ago

fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake

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