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c/retatrutide·posted 2 years ago by u/burned_once_twice

stalled for 17 weeks at 2.5mg and I refuse to panic this time

Caution Well Actually ×7 Slow Clap ×2 Cold Box ×3

stalled for 17 weeks at 2.5mg and I refuse to panic this time. I have gone back and forth on this for months.

17 weeks and 2.5mg — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend.

Independent purity testing on this compound is thin compared with the older molecules, simply because fewer members have paid for it. Fewer results means wider uncertainty, not a verdict.

Went up slowly, deliberately, because everything on this board says the escalation is where trouble lives. Uneventful so far and I am not going to pretend that is a finding.

Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.

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u/bilal_osei592 points·2 years ago

Phase 2 estimates effect and finds a dose range. Phase 3 estimates it precisely in a bigger population and catches what phase 2 was too small to see. Treating them as the same tier of evidence is the recurring error here.

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u/burned_once_twiceOP384 points·2 years ago

The constipation profile felt different rather than worse. Hard to describe and impossible to quantify, so take it as an impression.

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u/emil_wojcik566 points·2 years ago·edited

The phase 2 readout ran to 48 weeks in a few hundred participants with a slow escalation. Both the size and the duration matter when people quote the headline number.

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u/sena_teixeira145 points·2 years ago

Are you tracking heart rate at all?

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