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Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of injection-site soreness and no change in the number.

Added the Log flair and a date range to the title so it is findable later.

Maintenance is the phase with the least published guidance and the most individual variation, which is precisely why board consensus here is worth less than usual.

Retitled — a log is a record, not a protocol, and the original read as a schedule for others to follow.

This. Ordering from regional stock takes the entire question off the table, which is why it comes up in every one of these threads.

What was the packaging like on arrival?

two identical orders a week apart is the cheapest experiment available

Disagreeing with this bit: a single slow shipment does not move a lane, it joins the distribution.

Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.

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

constipation_club is right about the timing. The day-of-week pattern is the diagnostic bit, not the severity.

Reminder: no dose recommendations for other members, however the post is framed.

SURMOUNT-1 landed around 21% at 72 weeks on the top arm

maintenance is where the logistics finally get boring, which is the point

Same view. The analytical problem is different enough that the usual purity discussions here do not transfer cleanly.

Chased the last three kilos with a dose increase and got a fortnight of sulphur burps and no change in the number.

23kg over 58 weeks, never went past 10mg, and muscle cramps stayed mild the whole way. Posting because the loud threads are all 15mg.

SURMOUNT-1 landed around 21% at 72 weeks on the top arm

Reminder: no dose recommendations for other members, however the post is framed.

sulphur burps are the signature complaint and they are not dangerous

Agreed that phase 3 is where the comparison becomes fair. Everything before it is inference.

the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase

The step schedule question, answered properly, because it comes up weekly.

The label sets a minimum interval of four weeks between increases. That is a floor on how fast you may go, and it exists because tolerability, not efficacy, is what limits most people. There is nothing in the pharmacology that says you must increase at four weeks, or at eight, or ever.

What decides it in practice is whether the effect you want is still there. If appetite is quiet and the trend is going the right way, the dose is doing its job. If both have genuinely gone flat for six weeks or more, that is a conversation worth having with someone who knows your history.

What dose are you holding, and for how long now?

two identical orders a week apart is the cheapest experiment available

reflux at night, try not eating in the three hours before bed

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.

That comparison is between two different products at two different concentrations, which is where the confusion is coming from.

Slight disagreement with this bit only, because a beginner reading it might take it as a plan rather than a description.

Ordered from the warehouse in France and the whole import question disappeared. 7 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.

Held 7.5 for five months. Everyone kept asking when I was going to 10. The answer was never, because 7.5 was working.

Same lane in a different season for comparison?

Same conditions each time for the weigh-in?

reflux for the first eight days after each step, then nothing, every single time. Predictable enough that I started planning my week around it.

Same. The injection was the thing I was most nervous about and the thing that turned out to matter least.

write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself

bacteriostatic water has a preservative, sterile water does not

Correcting my own answer earlier — I said week 14 and the wiki says week 17. The wiki is right.

write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself

Split one order across two months on purpose to compare summer and winter. Four days apart, same carrier, same route.

Why contemporaneous beats reconstructed, with the failure mode.

Memory smooths. Reconstructing a fortnight from recollection produces a series that is more regular, more consistent with your current beliefs, and quietly wrong in a direction that flatters the story you are already telling.

I found this out by reconstructing six weeks and later finding order receipts that contradicted my own entries. The log was not a little wrong; it was wrong in exactly the direction that made my narrative work. Write it down on the day, even the boring days, especially the boring days.