[Meta] the SURMOUNT rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the SURMOUNT rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Nothing about this affects the ranking maths, before anyone asks. Switching from semaglutide, since three people asked in this thread alone. There is no published dose equivalence between the two. The conversion tables that circulate are…
I would separate the two claims. That the GIP arm exists is uncontroversial; that it explains your early fullness pattern is a guess.
2.5 is the starter dose and it is not meant to be the dose that works
The 21% figure is a 72-week mean on the highest arm. Quoting it as what someone should expect by week 31 is not a fair reading.
week 2 is early to draw any conclusion at all
Weekly dosing again, half-life in the same neighbourhood as sema, so a step change takes about a month to reach steady state. Judging a new step at day five is judging noise.