the dose escalation nerves, does anyone have a routine that helps with them
#mental-health 2026-02-08
Sunday36 messages6 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- sgp_subq — quick one does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief 10:04
- sgp_subq — for the archive i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt, ymmv 10:06
- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot C-4402. Nothing logged either way. 10:33
unrelated but the running out anxiety is real and worth naming. i keep a spare month in the fridge and i sleep better for it, i think
🧊2
quick one does the quiet in your head ever feel like a loss rather than a relief
🧊9❤️9
for the archive i measured my waist and my walking pace during the plateau because both were still moving when the scale wasnt, ymmv
📈6🔥2
hold on if you can. week three is not the whole experience and a lot of us nearly stopped right there
Purity check: no report on file for lot C-4402. Nothing logged either way.
glad youre back
💀14
we are a chat channel. good company, not clinicians, and it matters that we keep saying so, happy to be corrected
[redacted at member request] · archive policy
i cook more now than i used to, i just eat less of it, and that compromise saved that part of me
*that should say weekly
be kind to yourself
how did people get through a long plateau without giving up entirely
is anyone else more anxious about running out than about any side effect
the quiet is strange isnt it
i am kinder to myself now than i was when i was heavier, and that is not because of the number
not the easy way
that was me too
💀3📈5
i get anxious the night before a dose increase, so i take it in the morning now and sleep first
🤝1
12:35marrow.mod pinned a message
flat is the word i used too. not sad exactly, just less colour in things for a while
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
somebody said the easy way thing to me and i just said it was not easy and changed the subject. it worked fine
youre not a fraud
🧪1💀11🧊16
were not clinicians
i spent twenty years negotiating with myself about food and then the negotiation just stopped, and that took months to sit with
unrelated but it is a loss as well as a relief and you are allowed to say both of those things
thinking of you
💀3📉4
same at week 5
it does lift
my partner was not pleased at first and came round. what changed it was my blood pressure, not any argument i made
grieving food is real. it was my hobby, my comfort and about half of my social life
the escalation nerves got smaller each time for me but they never went away entirely
please talk to somebody
i read every twinge as something serious for the first three months and it does settle down, n of 1 obviously
thats grief honestly