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c/newbiequestions·posted 1 year ago by u/saskia_bakker

switched from 1.0mg to 2.4mg and sulphur burps got better, not worse

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The title is the argument: switched from 1.0mg to 2.4mg and sulphur burps got better, not worse. Here is the rest of it.

Numbers, in the order they matter: 1.0mg and 2.4mg.

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

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

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

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u/britt_zamora480 points·1 year ago·edited

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/liver_enzyme_liz416 points·1 year ago

Pen or vial?

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u/saskia_rahimi318 points·1 year ago

Push back on the advice above: nobody here can tell a member what dose to take, however confidently it is phrased.

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u/aurel_mwangi261 points·1 year ago

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

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u/saskia_bakkerOP130 points·1 year ago·edited

Is this your first step up or the starting dose?

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u/georgi_chowdhury103 points·1 year ago

Gently disagree with the framing — nothing has gone wrong. Week 16 looking flat is the ordinary experience.

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u/saskia_bakkerOP61 points·1 year ago·edited

What week are you in?

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u/bastian_moreau47 points·1 year ago

What is the actual question underneath the question? Happy to answer both.

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u/elin_trevino192 points·1 year ago

search first, but a repeat question is not a crime

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u/reads_the_wikiMOD126 points·1 year ago

Flair set to Question and the wiki page linked in a comment rather than in place of an answer.

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u/rina_bergstrom61 points·1 year ago

Agreed that appetite moves before the scale. Knowing that in advance saves a lot of week-three panic.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp21 points·1 year ago

nobody here can tell you what dose to be on

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u/ines_ekstrom20 points·1 year ago

Agreed that appetite moves before the scale.

Slight disagreement with this bit only, because a beginner reading it might take it as a plan rather than a description.

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u/elin_trevino10 points·1 year ago

Slight disagreement with this bit only, because a beginner reading it might take it as a plan rather than a description.

Agreed, and for anyone finding this later: that is the normal experience, not a warning sign.

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u/saskia_bakkerOP74 points·1 year ago

Flair set to Question and the wiki page linked in a comment rather than in place of an answer.

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

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u/due_diligence_dee24 points·1 year ago

Same. The injection was the thing I was most nervous about and the thing that turned out to matter least.

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u/kaplan_meier_kim0 points·1 year ago

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

saskia_bakker has explained this better than the wiki does, which is saying something.

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u/britta_nakamura1 point·1 year ago

That is area percent from a certificate, not the amount of peptide in the vial. Two different numbers and a very common mix-up.

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