[Discussion] beginner is doing more work than we give it credit for
beginner is doing more work than we give it credit for. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
The five things that would have saved me the most time in month one.
One: the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase. Two: appetite usually changes before the scale does, so watch that instead. Three: write the concentration and the date on the vial the moment you reconstitute anything. Four: the loud posts are not the middle of the distribution. Five: nobody here — including whoever answers most confidently — is your clinician.
None of that is advice about what to take. It is the shape of the first few weeks, which is what I actually wanted and could not find.
Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters. Do not do that; they are not the middle of the distribution.
My first question here was genuinely basic and it now shows up in search for other people asking it.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Appetite change and weight change are different measurements on different timescales. The first is usually noticed first and the second lags it.
ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it
ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it
Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.
Asked what a COA was in my first week. Somebody linked the explainer and I have been reading them ever since.
What is the actual question underneath the question? Happy to answer both.
Correction: the starting dose is a tolerance step rather than a treatment dose. The distinction is the answer to the question above.
research-use-only material is not approved for human use, and that belongs in every beginner thread
Yes — nobody here is your clinician, and the good answers on this board all end with that.
Concentration is mass over volume, and a U-100 syringe reads 100 units per millilitre. Those two facts are the whole of the arithmetic this board keeps explaining.
appetite change usually shows up before the scale does