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[Meta] proposal — a flair for basics posts

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proposal — a flair for basics posts. This affects how posts get sorted and removed, so it belongs in the open.

My first question here was genuinely basic and it now shows up in search for other people asking it.

Wrote the concentration on the vial after reading it here. Have never once had to reconstruct it from memory since.

Asked what a COA was in my first week. Somebody linked the explainer and I have been reading them ever since.

Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.

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u/ismael_chukwu57 points·1 year ago

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. That is a plain statement of regulatory fact and it belongs in every beginner thread.

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u/hassan_ostergaard40 points·1 year ago

Appetite change and weight change are different measurements on different timescales. The first is usually noticed first and the second lags it.

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u/georgi_chowdhuryOP29 points·1 year ago

no question is too basic here, that is the entire point of the board

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u/laila_yilmaz23 points·1 year ago

Nothing on this board is medical advice, and the people answering you — including me — are members with spreadsheets rather than clinicians.

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[deleted]16 points·1 year ago

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance13 points·1 year ago

Careful — that is a dosing recommendation dressed as an anecdote, and this board removes those.

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u/sulphur_burps_sue10 points·1 year ago

titration means going slow on the way up

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u/adaeze_cabrera17 points·1 year ago

Yes. The starting dose is a tolerance step. It is not supposed to do very much.

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u/nikhil_asante5 points·1 year ago·edited

week two with nothing happening is normal

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u/piotr_grimaldi3 points·1 year ago

write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp5 points·1 year ago·edited

Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters. Do not do that; they are not the middle of the distribution.

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