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c/tirzepatide·posted 1 year ago by u/elin_varga

anyone else notice GIP kicking in around week 81

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anyone else notice GIP kicking in around week 81, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair.

Sulphur burps for the first eight days after each step, then nothing. Predictable enough that I planned my week around it.

The distribution matters more than the mean. In the trial population the interquartile spread was wide enough that two honest people can have completely different runs on the same arm.

Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.

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u/aurel_lindqvist73 points·1 year ago·edited

The four-week interval in the label is a minimum. Nothing about the pharmacology requires you to step on schedule, and the trials stepped on a calendar because trials have to.

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u/cormac_pereira50 points·1 year ago

Yes — 10mg being a genuine landing place for a lot of people is underrated. There is no medal for 15.

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u/incretin_ivyMOD27 points·1 year ago

Left up, flair changed to Discussion. It is an opinion post and that is fine as long as it is labelled.

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u/elin_vargaOP-7 points·1 year ago

Have you held a step for longer than the four-week minimum at any point?

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u/throwaway_titration-9 points·1 year ago

the appetite effect is blunter than sema, in a good way, most weeks

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u/elin_vargaOP1 point·1 year ago

That percentage is body weight change, not body fat. Different measurement, and the distinction gets lost every time.

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u/elin_vargaOP17 points·1 year ago

Correction to my own post above — I said 2.5mg and I have been on 15mg since the spring. Same argument, wrong number.

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u/alcohol_aversion34 points·1 year ago

Push back: "gentler than sema" is a population statement. Plenty of people on this board have the opposite experience and they are not doing it wrong.

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u/emil_okwuosa21 points·1 year ago

Came off sema and onto tirz with a two-week gap. The first month was flat and I assumed I had made a mistake. Month two it moved.

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u/b12_baseline15 points·1 year ago

13kg over 42 weeks, never went past 10mg, and injection-site soreness stayed mild the whole way. Posting because the loud threads are all 15mg.

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u/quiet_moderatormod18 points·1 year ago

week 6 is early to draw any conclusion at all

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u/sofia_nascimento9 points·1 year ago·edited

week 6 is early to draw any conclusion at all

Agreed, with one qualifier: that is the mean of the top arm and the spread around it was enormous.

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u/forest_plot_fionastats5 points·1 year ago

Small fix: SURMOUNT is the obesity programme, SURPASS is the type-2 programme. They are different endpoints and the numbers do not transfer.

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u/mikkel_kimani3 points·1 year ago

the trials titrated on a calendar, real people titrate on symptoms

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u/ferran_mensah1 point·1 year ago

stepping every four weeks is a ceiling on speed, not a schedule you must hit

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u/graph_it_gary12 points·1 year ago

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. Anything in this thread about how a research vial "should" titrate is a discussion about chemistry, not a plan.

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