The title is the argument: GIP is the most under-discussed thing on this board. Here is the rest of it. It is a dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist, and the GIP arm is…
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comment on [Lane Report] Shanghai → UK, DHL, quoted 7 days, actual 9, cold pack solid in c/intlshipping · 7 points · 2 days ago
Where did the time actually go — international leg, clearance, or last mile?
comment on [PSA] no tracking numbers. they identify both ends. removed on sight. in c/intlshipping · 51 points · 4 days ago
a quoted lead time you can hold them to is worth more than a fast one you cannot
comment on [Discussion] AU and NZ get lumped together and the systems are nothing alike in c/glp1aus · 2 points · 8 days ago
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.
comment on the nausea profile at 7.5 was worse than 10 for me and i cannot explain it in c/tirzepatide · 190 points · 12 days ago
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.
comment on [Discussion] reship policy is the most underrated vendor differentiator in c/intlshipping · 24 points · 14 days ago
Why this board reports by lane and not by supplier.
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.
comment on SURMOUNT-1 was -20.9% at 72 weeks. that is the number, not -30% in c/tirzepatide · 14 points · 14 days ago
Are you comparing yourself with the trial mean or with the people who post the most?
comment on Spain: carrier, and what it actually costs here in c/intlshipping · 34 points · 27 days ago
Regional stock replaces an international lane with a domestic one. That is a structural change to the distribution, not a marginal improvement, and it is why the warehouse question matters more than the carrier question.
comment on [Lab] split one vial across PeptideMeter and VendorInvestigate — 98.4% and 97.2% in c/tirzepatide · 52 points · 1 months ago
It is a dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist, and the GIP arm is the part that has no equivalent in the semaglutide threads. That is why the side-effect profile reads differently rather than just milder.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about GIP in c/tirzepatide · 2 points · 1 months ago
sulphur burps are the signature complaint and they are not dangerous
comment on tried GIP for 23 weeks. here is what happened. in c/tirzepatide · 1 points · 2 months ago
hold the dose that works, the ladder is not a leaderboard
comment on [PSA] SURPASS is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/tirzepatide · 1 points · 3 months ago
if 7.5 is working, 10 is not automatically better
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about 15mg is guesswork in c/tirzepatide · 40 points · 3 months ago
Held 7.5 for five months. Everyone kept asking when I was going to 10. The answer was never, because 7.5 was working.
comment on [Lab] 4th independent test on JEEP — 97.3% on a claimed 97.0%, and the trend is the interesting part in c/tirzepatide · 22 points · 4 months ago
the reflux profile is genuinely gentler than people expect coming from sema
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about EMS until somebody posts a number in c/intlshipping · 4 points · 4 months ago
regional stock changes everything about transit
Adding the field everyone forgets — the month. Without it the report is not comparable to anything.
comment on does carrier actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/intlshipping · 106 points · 6 months ago
Posted my first lane report here without the month and got asked for it. Fair, and the table is better for the fussiness.
comment on [Question] Mounjaro — what am I missing here in c/tirzepatide · 55 points · 6 months ago
Are you comparing yourself with the trial mean or with the people who post the most?
comment on tirzepatide — 9 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/tirzepatide · 46 points · 7 months ago
Pen or vial? The step sizes available differ and it changes this answer.
comment on someone explain New Zealand to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1aus · 9 points · 8 months ago
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
comment on three years of 15mg threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/tirzepatide · 69 points · 8 months ago
2.5 is the starter dose and it is not meant to be the dose that works
comment on [Meta] the EMS rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/intlshipping · -31 points · 9 months ago
Packaging is assessable on arrival with no equipment: rigid outer, no movement inside, the cold element sized to the transit rather than to the box.
comment on [Results] 74 weeks, 23kg, and GIP was the hard part in c/tirzepatide · 381 points · 10 months ago
if 7.5 is working, 10 is not automatically better
comment on is it normal to get constipation at week 87 in c/tirzepatide · 1 points · 11 months ago
24kg over 59 weeks, never went past 10mg, and sulphur burps stayed mild the whole way. Posting because the loud threads are all 15mg.
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about carrier is guesswork in c/intlshipping · 6 points · 11 months ago
no tracking numbers, ever
comment on how much of what we believe about Mounjaro actually comes from SURMOUNT threads in c/tirzepatide · 7 points · 1 year ago
Careful with "everyone tolerates it better". The people it did not suit stop posting, which makes this board look calmer than the drug is.
comment on [Vendor] BCH order #17 — Germany, 12 days, no drama, receipts inside in c/intlshipping · 83 points · 1 year ago
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
comment on help me understand SURMOUNT, I have read the wiki twice in c/tirzepatide · 108 points · 1 year ago
Does early fullness follow the day after the shot, or is it spread across the week?
comment on reading 15mg threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/tirzepatide · 30 points · 1 year ago
stepping every four weeks is a ceiling on speed, not a schedule you must hit
comment on help me understand DHL, I have read the wiki twice in c/intlshipping · 6 points · 1 year ago
6 days on a lane quoted at 18 is the shape you want
comment on three years of compounding threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/glp1aus · 0 points · 1 year ago
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring carrier at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/intlshipping · 290 points · 1 year ago
Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
comment on [PSA] New Zealand is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/glp1aus · 47 points · 2 years ago
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
comment on the lane thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/intlshipping · 61 points · 2 years ago
A quoted lead time is a commitment you can evaluate. Measuring quoted against actual across several orders tells you more about an operation than the raw speed does.
comment on [Vendor] QST vs WWB on the same compound, same month — both cleared 99.0% in c/tirzepatide · 728 points · 2 years ago
the four-week step schedule is the label, not folklore
comment on the transit time thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/intlshipping · 1 points · 2 years ago
Total transit decomposes into first mile, international leg, clearance and last mile. Only the first two are meaningfully under the shipper’s control and most reported variance sits in the last two.
comment on am I the only one who found tirzepatide harder than the injections in c/tirzepatide · 7 points · 2 years ago
This matches mine. Milder fatigue than I expected, and what there was settled inside a fortnight of each step.
comment on reship — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/intlshipping · 529 points · 2 years ago
A quoted lead time is a commitment you can evaluate. Measuring quoted against actual across several orders tells you more about an operation than the raw speed does.
comment on [Question] tirzepatide — what am I missing here in c/tirzepatide · 859 points · 2 years ago
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.
comment on Mounjaro is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/tirzepatide · 162 points · 2 years ago
2.5 is the starter dose and it is not meant to be the dose that works
Saving this one. It is the clearest statement of the stall problem I have read here.
comment on is it normal to get early fullness at week 69 in c/tirzepatide · 87 points · 2 years ago
Not sure that follows. You went up a step and changed your training in the same fortnight.