the gallbladder question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
Thinking out loud about this: the gallbladder question that gets asked weekly, answered properly.
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.
Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss. The honest answer there is that it needs someone who can examine you.
fatigue for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Hair shedding after significant weight loss is a telogen effect that follows the rate of loss. It is not specific to these compounds and it resolves.
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holding a dose an extra month is a legitimate answer to bad tolerance
Is it every week or did it start at a particular dose?
Left up. It is a description of one person’s week and it is flagged as such.
nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
eating slower does more than most of the supplements people recommend
write down when it starts and stops, the pattern is the useful part
The fatigue turned out to be that I was eating about a third of what I thought I was. Tracked it for a week and the mystery evaporated.
Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my sulphur burps than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.
A symptom that begins the day after the shot and fades by day four tracks the exposure curve. One that appears at random in week 32 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
Careful with the supplement recommendation. There is no evidence for it here and the mechanism you are proposing does not hold.
A symptom that begins the day after the shot and fades by day four tracks the exposure curve.
Disagreeing with this one line: that symptom is not on the wait-and-see list and should not be posted as though it is.
Nobody warned me about constipation and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
if it is severe or persistent that is a clinician question, not a board question
This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.
Held the dose for an extra six weeks instead of stepping. The early fullness settled and I lost the same amount anyway.
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
constipation on day two and gone by day four is the standard shape
fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake
reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed
Not convinced by that mechanism. Slowed gastric emptying explains fullness and reflux; it does not explain what you are describing.
How long after a step up did this start?
Has anything else changed in the same window?
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
Mine settled at week 69 and has not come back since, across two more steps.
a rough fortnight at each step is normal, a rough three months is not
Cosigning the fibre and water answer. Unglamorous, free, and it fixed it for me inside a week.
Disagree. Severe abdominal pain is not on the list of things to wait out, and this board should not be treating it as one.
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