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#mental-health 2026-01-04
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Highlights from this day
- noct.titrate — how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely 22:36
- mg_per_ml — hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there 23:10
- clothes_size_cass — the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it 23:38
please talk to somebody
coming back after 1 months to say thank you, is that alright to do in here
be kind to yourself
not the easy way
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so
nobody in this room thinks less of you for needing a medication. genuinely nobody
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i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
[edited]that was me too
thinking of you
my relationship with eating was the thing i managed and now i dont know what im managing
the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
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hold on if you can
youre not a fraud
thank you for saying it
same at week 5
im ashamed of needing a medication for this and i cant seem to shake it
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it does lift
ok so flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while, your mileage will differ
does anyone talk to somebody professionally about this side of it
has anyone else felt oddly flat since the appetite went
glad youre back
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i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
coming back to this i asked one relative to stop commenting. it was awkward for a week and it was worth it
were not clinicians
the plateau nearly ended it for me. what got me through was logging something other than my weight
*PeptideMeter not the other one
anxious every time i go up a dose, is that a known thing or just me
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
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i built a whole personality around being the one who cooks and now i barely eat, does that pass
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
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is it normal to feel more emotional generally on this
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
comments about my body were harder to take than any side effect and nobody warns you about it
youre not alone in that
if all you managed today was the dose and some water, that counts and i mean that
the disorienting bit for me was realising how much of my day had been spent thinking about the next meal
*PeptideMeter not the other one
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
you are not the only person in here who has felt that, and i say that as somebody who was certain they were
the quiet is strange isnt it
the fraud feeling faded for me somewhere around the point i had kept it off longer than i took to lose it
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right so the food noise going quiet is the thing people are least prepared for. i sat in the kitchen at 8pm not knowing what i was for
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down
did the flatness lift on its own or did people have to do something about it
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