week 36 check-in — 6kg down, sulphur burps manageable, one thing confusing me
week 36 check-in — 6kg down, sulphur burps manageable, one thing confusing me, and the part I actually want to talk about is at the bottom. Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: week 36 and 6kg. Went 10 to 12.5 on the calendar and had the worst fortnight of the whole run. Dropped back to 10 and everything…
week 6 is early to draw any conclusion at all
2.5 is the starter dose and it is not meant to be the dose that works
2.5mg is a four-week starting dose, not a maintenance dose. Worth being precise since people search these threads.
a lot of people plateau nicely at 10mg and never need 15
The step schedule question, answered properly, because it comes up weekly.
The label sets a minimum interval of four weeks between increases. That is a floor on how fast you may go, and it exists because tolerability, not efficacy, is what limits most people. There is nothing in the pharmacology that says you must increase at four weeks, or at eight, or ever.
What decides it in practice is whether the effect you want is still there. If appetite is quiet and the trend is going the right way, the dose is doing its job. If both have genuinely gone flat for six weeks or more, that is a conversation worth having with someone who knows your history.
switching from sema is not a dose conversion, there is no clean equivalence
dual agonist, so the GIP arm is doing something the sema threads will not tell you about