my gallbladder came out at month 7 and i would still do it again
my gallbladder came out at month 7 and i would still do it again — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.
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 47 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.
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.
Bought four different things to fix my constipation. What actually worked was eating half as fast.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
On buying things to fix side effects, which I did extensively and would not do again.
The interventions that changed anything for me were all behavioural and free: smaller meals, eating slower, stopping food a few hours before sleep, more fibre and considerably more water. The things I bought did nothing I could detect, and I was motivated to detect something.
The other lever, which people forget, is time at dose. Holding rather than stepping is a legitimate plan and it fixed my tolerance where nothing else did.
That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.
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.
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.
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
One line a day: dose, day since injection, what the symptom was and how bad out of five, and roughly what you ate. Two months of that fits on one page and the pattern is obvious on paper in a way it never is in your head.
Mine showed a clean day-two-to-day-four window I had been describing as "random". Once you can see the pattern you can plan around it, and planning around it is most of the relief.
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.
Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.
Pushback: you changed the dose, the meal timing and the training in the same fortnight, so the attribution is guesswork.
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.
Same pattern here. It settled at a stable dose without me doing anything clever.
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.
smaller meals, earlier, is the boring advice that works
the first fortnight after a step is the worst of it, then it settles
Yes — the day-two-to-day-four window is so consistent across this board that it is almost diagnostic.
Nobody warned me about sulphur burps and I would have liked the warning. It was not dangerous, it was just deeply unpleasant and completely unexpected.
sulphur burps are unpleasant and they are not dangerous
This. A bad fortnight after a step is expected. A bad quarter is a reason to talk to somebody who knows your history.
Left up. It is a description of one person’s week and it is flagged as such.
fatigue plus low intake is usually just low intake
Disagree. Severe abdominal pain is not on the list of things to wait out, and this board should not be treating it as one.
hair shedding follows the weight loss, not the drug, and it stops
nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose
How long after a step up did this start?
Has anything else changed in the same window?
Which day of the week relative to the shot does it hit?
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