small win: weekly dosing stopped being a problem at week 23
small win: weekly dosing stopped being a problem at week 23, and the part I actually want to talk about is at the bottom.
Sat at 0.5mg 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.
STEP-1 ran 68 weeks and landed just under 15% mean body weight change on 2.4mg. It is an average of a wide distribution, not a target you have missed.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve rather than a series of spikes. That is also why moving your day slightly does very little.
That reads like a titration plan and this board cannot give you one. Somebody who actually knows your history has to.
STEP-1 averaged just under 15% at 68 weeks, so a 10% year is not a failure
First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.
Standard reminder: no personal titration plans for other members, and no medical advice. Everything else is fine.
Agreed, and the bit people skip is that the ladder is a tolerance ladder. It is not a potency ranking.
Not convinced. You changed the dose and the week at the same time, so you cannot attribute the change to either.
Small correction: 2.4mg is the maintenance ceiling on the label, not the starting maintenance dose. The distinction matters for anyone reading this later.
Week 66: 15kg down, injection-site soreness basically gone since about week 3, and the honest headline is that nothing dramatic happened. It was boring and it worked.
Genuine question — is the appetite effect still there, or is it just the scale that has paused?
Cosigning. The appetite change and the scale change ran about three weeks apart for me too.
Yes. Week 37 is when almost everybody writes the "is it still working" post, and almost everybody is fine.
Minor fix — the half-life is about a week, not about a day. The rest of your point stands.
if 2.4mg is working there is no prize for going up
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use, so anything in this thread about how a compounded or research vial "should" behave is a chemistry discussion, not a dosing one.
Kept a log from week one and the single most useful column turned out to be waist, not weight.