[Discussion] constipation is doing more work than we give it credit for
constipation is doing more work than we give it credit for, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
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.
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.
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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 96 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
Agreed on writing it down. I could not see the pattern until I had six weeks of it on one page.
Bought four different things to fix my nausea. What actually worked was eating half as fast.
nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose
How long has it been going on for now?
Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.
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.
Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.
Nobody warned me about muscle cramps and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
holding a dose an extra month is a legitimate answer to bad tolerance
Which day of the week relative to the shot does it hit?
sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous
Agreed. Slowing down at meals did more for my sulphur burps than everything I bought to fix it, which was embarrassing to discover.
eating slower does more than most of the supplements people recommend
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