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c/newbiequestions·posted 2 years ago by u/nora_lundgren

[Results] 45 weeks, 14kg, and beginner was the hard part

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45 weeks, 14kg, and beginner was the hard part, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair.

The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 45 weeks and 14kg. Everything below is context for those.

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

Week 9 for me was completely flat and I was convinced something was wrong. It was not. Month two was where everything happened.

Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.

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u/renzo_yildiz60 points·2 years ago

Titration is a tolerance ladder. Each step exists so the gastrointestinal effects settle before the next increase, which is why the intervals are what they are.

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u/arne_restrepo49 points·2 years 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/georgi_chowdhury41 points·2 years ago

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.

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance60 points·2 years ago

research-use-only material is not approved for human use, and that belongs in every beginner thread

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u/sulphur_burps_sue9 points·2 years ago

week two with nothing happening is normal

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u/hassan_ostergaard2 points·2 years ago·edited

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

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u/solene_abubakar7 points·2 years ago

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

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u/ruben_almeida3 points·2 years ago

appetite change usually shows up before the scale does

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u/nora_lundgrenOP-9 points·2 years ago

week two with nothing happening is normal

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/sofia_petrescu25 points·2 years ago

a COA is a certificate of analysis, the lab document for a batch

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u/ines_krastev22 points·2 years ago

search first, but a repeat question is not a crime

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u/britt_abubakar18 points·2 years ago

titration means going slow on the way up

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u/nora_lundgrenOP11 points·2 years ago

bacteriostatic water has a preservative, sterile water does not

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u/greta_perrin5 points·2 years ago

bacteriostatic water has a preservative, sterile water does not

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

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u/adaeze_cabrera3 points·2 years ago

the starting dose is not meant to be the dose that works

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u/nikhil_asante2 points·2 years ago·edited

Small correction, said kindly: those are two different products with similar names, and the difference matters for a multi-draw vial.

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u/nora_lundgrenOP2 points·2 years 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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u/muscle_cramp_mo1 point·2 years ago

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

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u/karma_irrelevant6 points·2 years ago

Agreed — week two with nothing on the scale is so common it should be in the sidebar. It probably is.

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u/old_account_20233 points·2 years ago

ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it

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u/saskia_rahimi2 points·2 years ago

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

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u/runa_grimaldi1 point·2 years ago

the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase

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u/erez_perrin3 points·2 years 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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