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is it normal to get injection-site soreness at week 4

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is it normal to get injection-site soreness at week 4. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing else.

Reflux was the one that got me. Stopped eating in the three hours before bed and it went from nightly to almost never.

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.

Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.

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u/ferran_krastev287 points·6 months ago

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.

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u/marit_coelho67 points·6 months ago·edited

Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss.

This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.

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u/cormac_danquah49 points·6 months ago

This is the shape almost everybody here describes, and it is the single most reassuring thing in the thread.

Disagreeing with this one line: that symptom is not on the wait-and-see list and should not be posted as though it is.

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u/isabela_nilsen22 points·6 months ago

nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose

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u/constipation_clubMOD203 points·6 months ago

This one needs a clinician rather than a comment section, and we have said so in the thread rather than removing it.

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[removed]89 points·6 months ago

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u/janoshik_junkieindependent tester125 points·6 months ago

Yes. Holding the dose is a real option and it does not mean you have failed at anything.

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u/signe_villalobos32 points·6 months ago·edited

That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.

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