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c/glp1women·posted 8 months ago by u/neha_rahimi

small win: fertility stopped being a problem at week 55

PCOS Cold Box ×5

Six-word version is the title — small win: fertility stopped being a problem at week 55 — and the rest is context.

Started logging the cycle in the same sheet as the dose. Three months later the pattern was obvious and it had been invisible before.

The same dose genuinely feels different at different points in the month for me. Took a year to notice and it was in the log the whole time.

Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.

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u/viktor_erdogan143 points·8 months ago

Telogen shedding follows a period of significant weight change rather than a specific compound, and it resolves.

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u/zeynep_weiss95 points·8 months ago

Not convinced by the attribution. That pattern tracks the cycle in your own log more closely than it tracks the dose.

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u/gentle_correctionMOD83 points·8 months ago

Standing reminder: nothing here is medical advice, and pregnancy questions go to a clinician without exception.

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u/hair_shed_hannah23 points·8 months ago

That is a general statement about gastric emptying, and the question was about a specific product.

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u/dose_creep_dan0 points·8 months ago

Correction: that trial did not enrol the population being discussed, so it cannot support the claim.

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u/cesar_oyelaran59 points·8 months ago

Perimenopause and all of this at once, and there is essentially nothing written about the combination anywhere.

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u/ignacio_kuipers15 points·8 months ago

Careful — anything touching pregnancy is not a board question in any form.

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u/elin_lindqvist10 points·8 months ago

Went looking for trial data on the specific question asked here and found the population had not been enrolled.

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u/neha_rahimiOP5 points·8 months ago·edited

iron and ferritin questions come up here more than anywhere else on the site

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u/wholesome_lurker4 points·8 months ago

Fertility can change with weight loss and improved insulin sensitivity. That is a well-described phenomenon and worth knowing about in advance rather than discovering.

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u/blunt_coldbox297 points·8 months ago

iron and ferritin questions come up here more than anywhere else on the site

Agreed, and the research gap being real rather than imagined is worth saying out loud.

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u/neha_rahimiOP33 points·8 months ago

Has this been raised with whoever prescribes?

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u/ewan_zielinski36 points·8 months ago

Trial populations for the major programmes were not designed around the questions this board asks most often, which is why the evidence base here is genuinely thinner rather than merely harder to find.

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u/yusuf_ramos16 points·8 months ago

nothing on this board is a substitute for someone who knows your history

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[deleted]11 points·8 months ago

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u/micro_bump_mick20 points·8 months ago

Agreed that the vocabulary here is imprecise and it causes people to answer different questions to the ones asked.

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u/mei_cardoso15 points·8 months ago·edited

Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.

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