[Results] 47 weeks, 15kg, and GIP was the hard part
47 weeks, 15kg, and GIP was the hard part. Same spreadsheet I have been keeping since the start, nothing retrofitted. Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: 47 weeks and 15kg. Held 7.5 for five months. Everyone kept asking when I was going to 10. The answer was never, because 7.5 was working. The…
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 somebody’s arithmetic, not data. What people report here is that the first month after a switch is often flat, that the appetite effect feels differently shaped rather than simply stronger, and that starting at the bottom of the ladder again is the common approach.
None of that is a recommendation. It is what the threads say, and the threads are not a clinic.
SURMOUNT-1 ran 72 weeks with the top arm around 21% mean body weight change. SURPASS is the diabetes programme and reports glycaemic endpoints, so quoting the two interchangeably is a category error.
21kg over 82 weeks, never went past 10mg, and food noise stayed mild the whole way. Posting because the loud threads are all 15mg.
Came off sema and onto tirz with a two-week gap. The first month was flat and I assumed I had made a mistake. Month two it moved.
Pen or vial? The step sizes available differ and it changes this answer.
Came off sema and onto tirz with a two-week gap.
This. The step interval is a floor, and reading it as a timetable is the most expensive mistake in the thread.
Same experience with the appetite effect being flatter across the week rather than front-loaded.