week 73 check-in — 28kg down, early fullness manageable, one thing confusing me
week 73 check-in — 28kg down, early fullness manageable, one thing confusing me, and the part I actually want to talk about is at the bottom.
Pulling the figures out of the title: week 73 and 28kg. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed.
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.
Mine settled at week 37 and has not come back since, across two more steps.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
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.
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 90 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
Most of the common complaints trace back to slowed gastric emptying — early fullness, reflux, nausea after a large or fatty meal. That is also why meal size and speed change the experience more than anything else.
Right, and the hair thing is worth repeating: it tracks the rate of loss rather than the compound, and it stops.
Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.
reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed
smaller meals, earlier, is the boring advice that works
This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.
Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.
reflux for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.
sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous
That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.
The effect on gastric emptying is most pronounced early and attenuates with continued dosing, which is the mechanism behind the "it settles at a stable dose" pattern the whole board reports.
Has anything else changed in the same window?
holding a dose an extra month is a legitimate answer to bad tolerance
early fullness on day two and gone by day four is the standard shape
This one needs a clinician rather than a comment section, and we have said so in the thread rather than removing it.
write down when it starts and stops, the pattern is the useful part
hair shedding follows the weight loss, not the drug, and it stops
Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my nausea than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.
Is it every week or did it start at a particular dose?
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
Are you eating in the couple of hours before you sleep?
Bought four different things to fix my sulphur burps. What actually worked was eating half as fast.
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
the early fullness that arrives at week 30 out of nowhere is usually something else
Which day of the week relative to the shot does it hit?
Nobody warned me about injection-site soreness and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
Are you eating in the couple of hours before you sleep?
This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.
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