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c/sideeffects·posted 2 years ago by u/fibre_forward

reflux: what the trials say vs what this community says

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reflux: what the trials say vs what this community says, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.

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

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.

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

That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.

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u/vendorinvestigate_vic-17 points·2 years ago

The pattern almost everyone here describes, written out once so it can be linked.

A step up is followed by a rough window — commonly sulphur burps arriving the day after the shot and easing by day four, worst in the first fortnight, then flattening out. At a stable dose it usually settles further. Constipation and fatigue tend to track intake and fluid rather than the compound directly, which is why the unglamorous answers work.

What sits outside that pattern: severe pain, symptoms that appear from nowhere weeks into a stable dose, or anything getting worse rather than better over a month. None of that is a board question and none of us can answer it for you.

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u/zeynep_zielinski1 point·2 years ago

The pattern almost everyone here describes, written out once so it can be linked.

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/step_therapy_s1 point·2 years 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_correctionnice about it1 point·2 years ago

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

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u/quiet_moderatormod228 points·2 years ago

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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