for the archive half life is about a week so youre roughly four to five weeks to steady state on any new dose
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- juno_joins — licensed ceiling for weight is 2.4 weekly, anything above that is not a licensed dose 15:37
- two_four_ceiling — right so i dont think the plateau is a dose problem most of the time, but i cant prove that 16:04
- taper_or_not — compounded and brand felt the same to me at 15, which is one person and nothing more 16:31
- juno_joins — vial units and pen clicks are different systems, mixing the two is how people end up wrong 18:28
- fasting_insulin — does moving my dose day by two days matter with a seven day half life 20:23
ok so five week steps worked better for me than four, purely on how the second week felt, i have it written down somewhere
my 2 vial in 3ml gives 4mg/ml so 12 lands on 25 units, thats why i picked that volume
licensed ceiling for weight is 2.4 weekly, anything above that is not a licensed dose
how did people handle the jump from 1 to 1.7
steady state takes weeks
lost about 19kg on the low doses before i even got to 1, which surprised me
right so i dont think the plateau is a dose problem most of the time, but i cant prove that
SELECT wasnt weight
seven days ish
£55 a month for compounded against what brand costs locally is why most people here use vials
my plateau was the scale stopping while appetite stayed suppressed, which is a different problem
compounded and brand felt the same to me at 15, which is one person and nothing more
for the archive STEP 1 ran to 68 weeks. thats the one everyone half remembers
while im here moving my dose day by a day or two never did anything noticeable for me
the appetite effect faded for me around 9 months and going up fixed it for a while
did the STEP 4 withdrawal arm show what i think it showed
plateaus move
held there too
23 months at 2.4 and the honest summary is diminishing returns after the first half
SELECT was cardiovascular outcomes in people with overweight and existing disease, not a weight trial, ill dig out the number
not the same trial
did anybody find a difference between CPC and pharmacy at the same 1
give it four weeks
same dose day
ok so anyone compared their 2 vial dosing against the pen increments
thats STEP 1
FLOW was the kidney outcomes trial and it gets quoted in here for things it didnt measure
genuine question did anyone titrate slower than four weeks a step and how did that go
whats the actual licensed ceiling, i keep seeing different numbers
my dose day drifted from friday to sunday, does that reset anything
is the plateau at 15 weeks normal or am i doing something wrong
vial units and pen clicks are different systems, mixing the two is how people end up wrong
dose day is sunday for me only because thats when i remember, not because sunday matters
anyone gone from 15 straight to 1 or is that too big a jump
STEP is several trials, so saying STEP said x is usually wrong without a number after it
going slow cost me nothing except time and saved me two bad weeks, thats my whole contribution
sorry to jump in how long did the first 16kg take for people at the low doses
mine faded too
2.4 is the ceiling
vials not pens here
my PeptideMeter report on the FGP vial came back 99.2 against a certificate saying 99
went too fast once
the plateau hit me at 15 weeks and moved again about a month later without a dose change
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changed my mind on the four week rule, i think it depends entirely on how the current dose feels
if youre comparing brand to compounded, dose accuracy in the vial is the variable, not the molecule
did anyone hold at 0.25 longer than four weeks before going up
STEP 4 had the withdrawal arm, thats the one people quote when they talk about stopping
does moving my dose day by two days matter with a seven day half life
| Trial schedule | What most people here do | |
|---|---|---|
| Step interval | 4 weeks, fixed | 4-12 weeks, on symptoms |
| Holding | protocol deviation | normal and expected |
| Top dose | reached by design | often never reached |
| Coming down | not studied | common at maintenance |
how many weeks before you noticed anything at 7.5
| Trial schedule | What most people here do | |
|---|---|---|
| Step interval | 4 weeks, fixed | 4-12 weeks, on symptoms |
| Holding | protocol deviation | normal and expected |
| Top dose | reached by design | often never reached |
| Coming down | not studied | common at maintenance |
*week 28 not week 5
does the seven day half life mean the last two days are weaker
plateaus move
went to 2.4 and the extra suppression wasnt worth the GI for me, so i came back down
is there a reason to hold at 1.7 rather than going to 2.4