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c/semaglutide·submitted 8 months ago by u/anya_erdogan

why does nobody talk about weekly dosing

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Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: why does nobody talk about weekly dosing. Sat at 0.25mg for four months because it was doing the job. Everyone told me to go up. The one time I did, the only thing that changed was the sulphur burps. Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to…

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u/helga_vermeulen0 points·8 months ago

I would push back gently. Going up because the scale paused is the single most common mistake described on this board.

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u/marit_coelho1 point·8 months ago

Yes. Week 12 is when almost everybody writes the "is it still working" post, and almost everybody is fine.

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u/ravi_sandvik-36 points·8 months ago

Are you measuring anything other than weight? Waist is usually the one that keeps moving.

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u/rania_diallo0 points·8 months ago

Yes.

Disagree with this specific line. A pause at 2.4mg is not evidence that 2.4mg has stopped working.

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u/oskar_kaufmann0 points·8 months ago

I would push back gently.

Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost. Judge a step at a month, not at a weekend.

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u/reflux_report1 point·8 months ago

I would push back gently.

Adding one thing to this: the appetite effect and the scale run on separate clocks, so both halves can be true at once.

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