what changed for me between month 3 and month 7
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: what changed for me between month 3 and month 7.
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
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.
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.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment.
iman_falk is right about the timing. The day-of-week pattern is the diagnostic bit, not the severity.
Same pattern here. It settled at a stable dose without me doing anything clever.
the food noise going quiet is the effect people came for, and early fullness is the toll for the first fortnight
Constipation is mostly reduced intake plus reduced fluid, not a direct effect. That is why the boring fibre and water answer keeps working.