stalled for 21 weeks at 2.4mg and I refuse to panic this time
Something I keep coming back to: stalled for 21 weeks at 2.4mg and I refuse to panic this time. Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: 21 weeks and 2.4mg. On the "everybody ends up at 2.4" claim, which comes up every few weeks. The escalation schedule in the trials was designed to get people to a fixed…
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.
Standard reminder: no personal titration plans for other members, and no medical advice. Everything else is fine.
Standard reminder: no personal titration plans for other members, and no medical advice.
nausea_notes is describing the standard shape here and it matches the trial data better than most anecdotes do.
the first four weeks are a tolerance check, not a weight-loss phase
How long was the stall before you decided it was a stall?
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Sceptical of the mechanism you are proposing. Gastric emptying slows, it does not stop, and the timings you describe do not follow from it.
Small correction: 2.4mg is the maintenance ceiling on the label, not the starting maintenance dose. The distinction matters for anyone reading this later.